[Tech1] Badminton - Drones

[Alasdair Lawrance]

Quiet and stable, too.


Alasdair Lawrance
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On 7 May 2018, at 13:54, Graeme Wall via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:

Neigh, lad!
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Graeme Wall





> On 7 May 2018, at 12:38, Geoff Fletcher <geoffletch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh I wouldn't say that Graham - horses are are normally quite quiet.
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> Geoff F 
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> On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Graeme Wall via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
> Surprised they use drones near horses, they tend to be quite noisy.
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> Graeme Wall
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>> On 6 May 2018, at 10:40, Alec Bray via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I watched quite a bit of the Badminton Horse Trials Cross Country yesterday - I had got quite enough heat from working in the garden earlier in the day!
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>> I was very impressed by the use of drones.  The pictures were absolutely rock steady (much much more stable that the old heli-telly (oops, sorry!)) and full broadcast quality.: it was quite difficult on some shots to tell if it was a fixed (crane mounted) camera or a drone shot.
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>> IMHO, the best use of the drone was tracking the riders coming along the lakeside, approaching the first jump into the lake, then along along in front of the hospitality tents, to the approach to the main lake jumps.
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>> Unfortunately (?), the lakeside (query) ped-mounted manual camera was on the opposite side (flank) of the horse to the drone camera, but as the cut was usually made as the horse turned into the first jump, it did not jar.
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>> From a couple of shots, it looked like a fixed camera was remotely operated: for instance, there was a camera in Huntsman Hollow following the horses through three jumps in sequence.  If a horse ran out at the second jump, the camera did a strange manoeuvre - panned down, then around some 180 degrees, then panned up to find the horse - a very tricky bit of business for a physically manned the camera at the site!
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>> All in all, I thought that the presentation was very good - except for a re-occurring shot panning round following the horses through the tress, where all you could see were the trees!
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>> Mind you, wide screen TV  posed a problem for the off-the-horse interviews!  Clearly the cameraman did not want to have a dirty OS shot, but with an MCU there was a lot of space around the subject.
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>> Alec
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