A nice shot. I never realised the sofa was on the right of the studio - I always thought it was on the left. I also never realised they used, and could fit in the studio, a rail cam.
A nice shot. I never realised the sofa was on the right of the studio - I always thought it was on the left. I also never realised they used, and could fit in the studio, a rail cam.
When you say "rail cam" you mean a jib, don't you?
A rail cam, as the name suggests, runs on a high mounted track with a motor pulling it along the track for motion shots. Its likely to have a remote pan/tilt head, too.
A jib is a boom device with a camera on one end, and a counterweight and camera controls on the other. It operates like a see-saw, but with the balance point located close to the counterweight, so that the camera end of the arm can move through an extended arc. That's the camera end we can see in that photo.
A nice shot. I never realised the sofa was on the right of the studio - I always thought it was on the left. I also never realised they used, and could fit in the studio, a rail cam.
plus you realise breakfast is now back in TC7, a full size proper TV studio, hence them having real jibs in rather than dodgy robot cameras like in N6
Railcams normally use a stabilised P&T head to avoid showing all the vibration such as these StabC's.
Although, for slow tracking shots, smaller non-stabilised types are used where it would be in-appropriate to have the larger types. (OT, but the camera in that second shot is a full spec Sony BVP550, hence the extremely large lens compared to the camera body).
Saw some lovely variations on a theme at the IBC in Amsterdam - really nice gliding tracks for smaller video heads mounted on little truss feet at standing height. No motors involved - just a great alternative to wobbly ped crabs on crappy office floors. They would have worked really well on N24's old set.