Camera Corps Supplies 'I'm A Celebrity'

Camera Corps is supplying remotely controlled pan, tilt and zoom equipment to track contestants on this year's winter series of reality television show 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' on ITV in the UK and channel 3e in Ireland.
ITV is producing the programmes in full 1080-line high-definition with technical infrastructure supplied by Gearhouse Broadcast.
"This is one of the largest shows in the world, with more than 600 staff working in shifts round the clock for three weeks," said Gearhouse Broadcast COO Kevin Moorhouse.
"It is transmitted from one of the hottest and wettest locations on the planet, in the tropical rainforest of New South Wales. Camera Corps has worked with us very efficiently and effectively over many years to ensure that we capture consistently high-quality video, indoors or out, with full protection against rain, high humidity, high ambient temperature or low light."
"Camera Corps will be integrating more than 90 remotely controlled cameras to follow the action inside and around the camp. These include 16 Q-Ball robotic pan/tilt/zoom heads, 20 HD-MiniZooms with infra-red night illumination, 30 MiniShots, 26 Hitachi DKH-32 and three Toshiba IKH-R1. The Q-Ball heads incorporate a 10:1 zoom optics and a low-noise pan/tilt drive with precise speed control which allow the director to request live follow-shots. We get consistently high picture quality from the Q-Ball and HD-MiniZoom cameras, including all the detail viewers expect when watching in HD."
Technicians David Sisson and James Todd from Camera Corps will be working alongside the Gearhouse Broadcast production team to install, operate and reposition the robotic systems throughout the show.
"The cameras will be operated from remote pan/tilt/zoom joystick panels located in the control room," David Sisson adds.
"We will also be installing Camera Corps 'Simply SMPTE' electro-optical and single-mode fiber links which allow HD-SDI from the camera heads to be carried much greater distances than can be achieved over standard copper cable. A popular element of the series is the bushtucker trial which invites contestants to reach out one way or another to the wildlife of New South Wales. One of our tasks is to ensure the local insects and snakes don't set up home inside our camera housings. The Q-Ball is very effectively sealed against incursions of that kind."
Developed and produced by Camera Corps both for rental and for sale, the Q-Ball has worked on high-profile projects in recent years, including the BBC Proms, Summer and Winter Olympics, international football, motor racing, water sports, tennis, football and rugby.
The Q-Ball head comprises a 1080i camera with 10:1 zoom optics plus a fully rotatable pan and tilt head.
'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here!' is a reality television series in which celebrities compete in a camp in the jungle.
Originally developed in Britain by ITV Studios and first shown in 2002, it is produced by ITV Studios and licensed globally.
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