Shooting from a Blimp

[Andy Finney <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Re what Bertha saw:

At the Production Show in London recently a company was 
selling/renting out a small blimp for photographic/video use. It was 
being demonstrated floating around the exhibition hall and, I 
believe, supporting a professional video camcorder. The blimp was 
tethered and the operator had remote control and viewing of the 
camera output. This kind of thing has been around for a few years and 
should be listed in film/video/tv production guides.

One thought that comes to mind is that they were probably using an 
optically stabilised lens to minimise shake. These are common on 
camcorders (especially Canon) but not so much on stills lenses. Would 
be nice though wouldn't it ;-) In general I believe you can tolerate 
more shake in video than for stills.

Andy
www.invisiblelight.co.uk
www.atsf.co.uk/ilight
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