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The king of speed The roar power of Samsung’s Portable SSD T7 Shield pays off in a fast-turnaround shoot to celebrate a world motorcycle championship T riumph has built some of the world’s most desirable motorcycles for generations, with racing woven deeply into
the jetlag to fly back then descend on Triumph’s factory at Hinckley in Leicestershire. Waiting for them were 680 members of the workforce, along with motorcycle media gathered to document a landmark moment in the manufacturer’s history. For filmmaker Gary Freeman, there wasn’t much time to join the party. Charged with capturing the celebration on video, working alongside the stills photographers and recording interviews with the riders conducted by a well- known television commentator, Freeman
the British brand’s DNA. But one particular prize had always remained tantalisingly out of reach: a world championship. That changed when Spanish racer Guillem Farrés made history by taking the world motocross crown, with his Triumph team-mate completing an extraordinary season by finishing runner-up. Just two days after the championship finale in Australia, the team fought back
then had to turn everything into a polished edit ready to go out to the world. It was a job where the speed of the workflow mattered almost as much as the speed of the bikes. Freeman’s principal camera was a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, chosen because of its ability to record high-quality Blackmagic Raw
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