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The Rigging Partnership Launches Spidercam in the UK

The Rigging Partnership is expanding further into the camera flying market with the acquisition of the ‘Spidercam’ system that will be available from November. Specifically aimed at the large-scale arena and stadium market the four-way flying camera system provides High Definition broadcast and film quality camera feeds at speeds of up to 10m/sec. The stabilised head is supported by four winches capable of a staggering 350m of travel enabling the system to fly over areas of up to 250m².

The Spidercam system can be controlled by joysticks or pre-programmed with graphic visualisation enabling the operator to see the position of your flight path and camera on a separate monitor. The winches are kept extremely compact (1.5m x 0.9m x 0.7m) by mounting the gearbox and the motor inside the lightweight aluminium drums. Rather than using steel wire rope the system uses Kevlar rope with a polyester sheath. Two of these ropes have fibre optic cores, one to allow for control of the pan/tilt/focus/zoom/aperture of the stabilised remote head and the other to allow for live HD-SDI signal via fibre optic slip rings in the winch. Therefore there is no data loss and no wireless transmission is involved. The system has also been approved by TUV for BGV-C1 certification.

Having proven its worth in the European market over the last four years this sees the first system based solely in the UK. The Rigging Partnership’s Gavin Weatherall explains: “This new expansion within the broadcast industry sees TRP’s Flywire division enter one of its most exciting times. Spidercam has an extremely impressive CV to date and we are very pleased to be the UK partners and given the bookings we have so far I am sure we are going to see further growth in this area of our services.”

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The Rigging Partnership Launches Spidercam in the UK

16th October 2007

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