OWC Creator
Ming Poon
Who Am I? How Did I Get My Start. What Are My Interests?
I’m Ming Poon, an award-winning director and photographer, based in North Lake Tahoe, California. Inspired by nature, music, culture, family and friends, I travel into wild places to creatively capture remote corners of the world, and the people who venture there. Through my images, I hope to inspire a love for the outdoors, and a desire to protect open spaces. In my work, you don’t just see a place — you feel its story on a deeper level.
Everyday I'm constantly in the flow between shooting on OWC Atlas cards and ingesting via the OWC card reader to my OWC Thunderbay 8 drive for working files. If I'm on-the- road or in-the-field handling DIT work, I am usually using the OWC Envoy Pro FX drives because of their speed, being crush-proof, water-proof, and fairly larger capacity for smaller portable drives.
Field Gear
- Sony A1
- Zoom lenses
- Prime Lenses
- Filters and Polarizers
- Peak Design Tripod
- Peak Design Accessories
- OWC Atlas Pro CFexpress 4.0 Type A Cards
- OWC Envoy Pro FX and OWC Envoy Pro Elektron drives
Workflow
After shooting, I ingest cards using my OWC card reader onto my working drive, an OWC Thunderbay 8. After post-production and delivering assets to client’s, I archive assets on a NAS at my house, which backs up to an off-site backup every night.
Workstation Gear
- Mac Pro
- Two Monitors
- Synology NAS (onsite and offsite)
- OWC Atlas USB4 CFexpress Card Reader
- OWC Envoy Pro Elektron
- OWC Thunderbay 8
- OWC Envoy Pro FX Drives
Ultra-fast compact USB4 (40Gb/s) CFexpress 4.0 Type B card reader for creative professionals with transfer speeds up to 5000MB/s.
The fastest, toughest mini-sized SSD available. It’s crushproof, dust-proof and waterproof for transferring gigabytes of data in seconds.
- USB 3.2 (10Gb/s) Port
- Up to 1011MB/s
- Waterproof, Dustproof + Crushproof
With up to 160TB at up to 2,586MB/s speeds, the ThunderBay 8 is like a personal data center for content creators and small business workgroups.
- Dual Thunderbolt Ports
- Up to 2586MB/s
- Up to 8 x 2.5" or 3.5" Drives
- Options with SoftRAID
- RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10) or JBOD
- Includes Thunderbolt cable
- For Mac and PC
The universally compatible, portable SSD for Thunderbolt and USB devices. Offers performance of up to 2800MB/s in a crushproof and waterproof case.
- Universal Thunderbolt Connectivity
- Up to 2800MB/s
- Military Grade Drop Proof
- Waterproof, Dustproof + Crushproof
Tips, Tricks, and Gear
Pre-production is so important to have my kit ready for all aspects of a shoot. I often have a plan A, B and C and the pre-production must reflect that. It's not unusual to have months of pre-production work for a one or two-day shoot where a client might be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. Often you only have one shoot day or one chance at a shot, I try to make it count.
