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THEBVEDAILY

Camera Corps

Stand: H12

By David Fox

Camera Corps has three new

miniature cameras at BVE:

the unobtrusive Q3 pan/tilt/

zoom/focus model; the tiny

MeerCat; and version 3 of

its Cricket Stump Cam. The

robotic Q3 is fully IP45 rated

for outdoor use, while its

compact spherical housing

can perform an unlimited

number of 360º lateral

rotations. It has a 1/3-inch

1920x1080 RGB CMOS

sensor with 20x optical zoom

lens, and an enhanced motor

drive is claimed to match

the precise acceleration and

deceleration of much larger

robotic heads when tracking

moving performers. Pan and

tilt speed are adjustable from

360º in 90 minutes to 90º

per second, and it can store

motion control sequences of

up to 25 seconds duration.

The MeerCat is small enough

(30x30mm, 93mm high) to be

used as a wearable camera,

yet has full control facilities,

including manual iris with

adjustable electronic exposure.

It can deliver 1080p, 1080i or

720p video at 50, 59.94 or

60Hz via HD-SDI – convertible

to an optical feed using Camera

Corps’ fibre interface. The

power supply and interface can

be up to 30m from the camera

head, and control signals can

be delivered over a standard

audio line. Six cameras can

be controlled from a single

remote panel. The latest

version of the Stump Cam is

its most compact yet and can

be completely housed inside a

regulation-gauge cricket stump.

Each camera can have 50º,

100º or 128º lenses. There

are four cameras: two for each

wicket, so one might have

a tight-angle lens facing the

bowler, while the second, with

a super wide lens, could capture

the wicket keeper. All four

zzzzzfeeds are multiplexed onto

single-mode fibre. The system

can withstand direct strikes

from a ball.

DEEP INTO ARCHIVES

Disk Archive

Corporation

Stand: M20

By James McKeown

BVE 2015 has seen Disk

Archive Corporation bring

three new upgrades, with

support for 8TB Archive Disk

Drives; Hybrid Cloud Storage

Solution; and EX-60 Storage

Expansion Chassis.

Support for a new

generation of Archive Specific

8TB disk drives is set to

“transform the economics of

Deep Archive storage on

the ALTO Offline platform.”

The new Disk Drive

technology is optimised for

long retention times and low

throughput characteristically

required for Deep Archives

and Preservation. With up

to four Petabytes per rack

cabinet, the company is

championing the smaller

footprint in comparison to

other archive solutions and

that being disk-based, “the

environmental specifications

are more relaxed than

tape-based solutions bringing

direct and indirect cost

savings to the ALTO system,

which already features the

industry’s lowest total lifetime

cost of ownership.”

The company is also

presenting a new hybrid

cloud storage concept,

which seeks to overturn the

traditional economic barriers

that have made cloud storage

unaffordable for long form

broadcast content in native

resolution. In addition, it

is showcasing the EX-60

Storage Expansion Chassis

for the ALTO Archive and

Content Library. The EX-60 is

designed to meet the growing

demand for larger capacity

and more densely packed

media storage.

On the turn: The Q3 does a full 360º turn in just four seconds

REMOTE CAMERAS ON THE BALL IN Q3

Disk Archive Corporation brings three new upgrades to BVE

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