Crane shot

The camera crane used in the film and television technology to allow camera movement in three dimensions. The subject is, for example, " fly over ", the camera may move from the top to the subject or away from it.

There are camera cranes with platform on which the cameraman and partly also the camera assistant can ride - these cranes are called manned cranes. Furthermore, so -called remote cranes ever increasing popularity. Here are just a remote head ( remote controlled 2 - or 3 - axis head) is used instead of manned platform mounted with the camera. All camera functions and the remote head to the remote console from remote control and the image section is controlled by a monitor. Remote versions have the great advantage that due to the lower payload larger crane lengths are possible. Another advantage is that when hanging mounted remote head clear view (perpendicular ) to the bottom. In the 2- axis head allows the camera to move left-right and up - down, in addition rolled the 3- axis head around the visual axis.

On 12 February 2005, the German Horst Burbulla Award Los Angeles with a technical Oscar. The American Film Academy thus rewards the development of a camera crane system with telescopic mechanism that has Burbulla developed and enforced on the market. Furthermore, the Frenchman Jean -Marie and Alain Lavalou Masseronin received a technical Oscar for the development of Louma - Crane.

With the advances in materials and electronics and radio-controlled model helicopters are used as a "flying camera crane" for several years.