| Ron Dexter has been a paid cameraman since 1962 and a director/cameraman since 1968. In addition, Ron:
Owned a TV commercial studio in Hollywood for 20 years;
Owned and/or built most of the production equipment he used in 35mm production;
Mostly shot high-budget network TV commercials on 35-mm film; clients included Kodak, Ford, Chevy, United, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Colt 45, Budweiser, Miller, and Busch;
Has shot stop motion time lapse up to 2500 FPS;
Has worked with thirty-man man Hollywood crews and no-man crews;
Developed a 250 page website on equipment and production not published elsewhere see www.rondexter.com;
Has worked with backpack dollies and cranes and Fisher dollies and Chapman cranes;
Trained many of his crews;
Has shot in 40 states and 18 countries;
Has shot objects from diamonds to 747's;
Has shot people from Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra to Michael Gorbachev;
Is a director in DGA (retired);
Has been a union board member/negotiator and employer of union crews;
Has taught hundreds of students and designed a film course for the Irish Government;
Has two patents for film equipment;
Is the co-designer of the Body Mount and the Pitching Lens;
Built and promoted "The Dexter Dolly" system and the Dexter Hi Hat;
Built one of the first video assists for Arri IIC, 35-3, and Arri 35 BL, a periscope lens system, tilting front lenses and selectable focus lenses;
Has built cranes and dollies since 1965;
Since retiring, has done many no-budget video projects and still teaches;
Is presently working on animated Gumby and Davey and Goliath television projects.
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