A couple of recent High Def shoots Mark Sallaway has been working on include the Vodafone McLaren MP4-24 launch in Portugal and Bonhams classic car auction in Paris. Footage from the McLaren shoot was used for VNR's, team promotion and for a Vodafone advert. The polecam shots of the classic car auction were shown live on big screens and the sale of a Bugati Type 57S which sold for a record 3.4 million Euros was seen on worldwide news channels. There will be 3 x 1hr Discovery programs to follow.
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We found this great Polecam footage on Vimeo.com - We'd love to know who shot it - Was this your production?
Demo Polecam Piscina from pixbee on Vimeo.
You can also view the clip here - http://vimeo.com/2801841
We're not the only ones with a Beijing Games story to tell, Zerb have their own Polecam in Beijing story. Which you can download in pdf format here.
This article was first published in Zerb for the Guild of Television Cameramen (www.gtc.org.uk)
French Polecam Owner operator Thierry Rancier of Facon de Voir has sent photos of his recent coverage of the Ski World Championship at Val d'Isere. His role was to shoot the start of the race. He had recently upgraded his rig to use the Toshiba IK-HD1E HD camera, and he says the resulting oictures were excellent. The camera video and data was routed between 1000 and 2000 metres of optical fibre usong a Telecast Viper system. The result was a great success for Thierry and he is looking forward to more of this work.
Martin Mueller ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) has recently taken Polecam to new extremes with a Polecam mounted on a snowmobile.
This was shot for German Television in Liberec in the Czech Republic filming ski-touring. Martin reached speeds up to 60km/h. Very good Martin but not yet beat Steffan's record of 140km/h out the back of a Wrangler Jeep for the Iron man Triathlon in Lanzarotte.
Congratulations on showing us that Polecam still knows no limits.
