Hello All!
I am in need of some professional advice from the filmmaking community if you so kindly would lend it. I am in the marketing department of a company that produces a product called a Kestrel Pocket Weather Meter. This unit is handheld, about the size of a cell phone, and is able to give you up to 10 different environmental conditions such as temperature, wind speed, wind chill,relative humidity, heat stress, altitude, barometric pressure, dewpoint, and wet bulb temperature. There are many markets that find these units extremely useful, and currently many TV weather stations use them as well as their crews. This made me think about film production, and how having accurate weather information may be important for the crews during production for safety reasons as well as protection of extremely expensive camera equipment. For example, maybe knowing the wind speed would have an effect on the cranes that are used in production? Also the handheld units allow the user to predict weather patterns, and allow them to be "an on the spot weatherman". This is a new market that I am exploring, and just wondering if you feel that this instrument would have any interest to the production community, and if you could see a correlation between its features and possible applications in production. I greatly appreciate any input that you can give.Thanks!
If you want to check out the product the website is www.nkhome.com
-Christy-
Yes I could see that being a very useful tool. I'mn still not going to buy one though.