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1970: GYRO CAMERA - No More Shakey Pictures? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
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3:44Now PlayingJohn Parry reports on a new, remote control, gyro-balanced film camera that can be mounted to a vehicle on the end of a suspended boom. Equipped with three gyroscopes, which control movement in three dimesions (roll, pitch and yaw) it is able to take astonishingly stable pictures of moving images on even the most uneven terrain. To test it out, John tries to capture a trial bike moving through some bumpy heathland.
Could this be the end of shakey pictures?
Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, 12 August, 1970.
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