Spidercam Light 3D cable cam system with Newton stabilized camera head. Enabled a flying TV camera at Beyoncé & Jay-Z's On the Run II Tour in 2018.
The Spidercam is a cable-suspended camera system which enables film and television cameras to move both vertically and horizontally over a predetermined area, typically the playing field of a sporting event such as a cricket pitch, football field or a tennis court. The name Spidercam is a trademark. The Spidercam system is modeled after Skycam, which preceded it, having been invented in the United States in 1984.
The Spidercam operates with four motorized winches positioned at each corner at the base of the covered area, each of which controls a Kevlar cable connected to a gyro-stabilized camera-carrier, or dolly. By controlling the winding and unwinding of the cables, the system allows the dolly to reach any position in the three-dimensional space. The inputs of the Spidercam "pilot" are processed by software which forwards the commands to the winches via fiber optic cables. Two of the Kevlar cables also have fiber optic cables woven into them to carry commands to the remote-controlled camera head and bring the camera's high definition signal back to the control station. Since 2019 the remote camera head that Spidercam uses is a NEWTON S2 gyro-stabilized camera head developed by Newton Nordic [1] in Sweden. This remote head, which houses the camera, provides pan, tilt and roll movement and also controls focus, zoom and irising of the lens. A specially trained Spidercam camera operator controls the NEWTON camera head next to the pilot. Spidercam GmbH has an in-house engineering department which works on improving the Spidercam and developing special applications to meet customer requests. They are for example offering augmented reality in live TV broadcast.
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The Spidercam is a cable-suspended camera system which enables film and television cameras to move both vertically and horizontally over a predetermined...
European Games Cameramen operating Newton stabilized remote heads on spidercam cablecam systems flying over the audience at Metallica tour (2019) A live...
wing. Because of this design, the film was one of the first to use the Spidercam for film production. The camera, most often used for televised sports...
Rodnunsky but also a subsidiary of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC), Spidercam and Robycam 3D. Systems like it have been in limited use since the mid-1980s...
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of these specialize in other areas of film, including sports footage. Spidercam is a European company that was established in the early 2000s and is mainly...
alternative. It was the first time in the history of the FA Cup that a spidercam was utilised during the match. Sol Campbell and Eddie Newton came onto...
actors, took a night to finish filming. Aerial shots required the use of Spidercams and cameras strapped onto remote control plane. Scenes set in the 1970s...
85–300 Cabrio. Furthermore, a crane, a Towercam, various hotheads and a Spidercam were used. All images were recorded in HD and 4K on three terabyte hard...
Nick Kauffman – camera operator Alan Wells – spidercam Nick Bonnar – spidercam pilot Mark Sayers – spidercam technician Warren Buckingham – focus puller...
TruTV's live boxing telecasts featured the first-ever domestic use of “Spidercam” technology, which operates on a four-point system of cables from designated...
statistics WatchESPN carried several online-exclusive feeds, including a Spidercam feed, and feeds featuring the Auburn Tigers and Florida State Seminoles...
area, and two 36-meter-high cranes were set up, which hold and move the spidercams above the water. The complete refurbishment was finished and the facilities...
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