International. Aerial images now have an element that will facilitate their taking. This is the Shotover K1, one of the latest developments presented by the company ACS France in its portfolio of filming systems with a gyrostabilized camera.
Highlights include a six-axis gyro-stabilized gimbal with downward focusing capability, fiber optic video data transfer for crisp 3GHz images, and customizable graphics overlay capable of transmitting operator data in real time.
In addition, automatic horizon or airship, lightweight carbon fiber structure, remotely controllable polarizer and replaceable filters, replaceable cameras and lenses whenever required, bread: 360 degrees continuous (by means of electric and optical rotary joints) and Maximum Slew rate: 100 degrees / sec. (with automatic DRI control).
To test this new product, its creators invited several directors with experience in aerial imaging, including the director of aerial photography Hans Bjerno, who said that "aerial cinematography is one of the few areas of the moving image industry that has remained relatively unchanged in the last two decades. Today we witness the emergence of a totally new model of aerial filming."
For his part, David Nowell, director of aerial photography, stressed that the new system "allows a production to create the film material it needs in an amount of time less than what was possible until now with an impressive cinematographic image quality, and within a portable package, easy to use and flexible enough"
