There were technical problems, including the necessity of carrying three cameras bolted together at the correct angles on the toboggan or other carrier, synchronization of the three separate films, and matching of the image structure and brightness at the joining edges on the screen.
The vehicle, owned by anarchist pranksters the Space Hijackers, bore a number of fake CCTV cameras bolted onto its turret, a plastic pipe with holes in it for a gun and a bumper sticker that read "How Do You Like My Driving? 0800 F**K YOU".
The only special gear used was a robot camera mount connected to a laptop, onto which I bolted the camera and lens.
In fact Formula One probably started all this almost 60 years ago when a film director bolted a camera to a Maserati and filmed Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-times world champion, driving a lap of the old Modena circuit.
The basics will probably sound a little familiar: like other consumer-oriented drones on the market, users can control the Hex from smartphones with Bluetooth 4.0 support, and the team is also selling camera modules to bolt on the thing as it goes off on its seven-minute flights.
The weapon fire on the set was considered dangerous, which led the crew to build a new bulletproof plexiglas shield that could be bolted to the camera.
Camera gadget lets video recordings glide Jump to media player A small gadget that can be bolted onto most cameras studies their movements in order to stabilise video recordings.
With his performance Saturday night, set against a circle of camera flashes, Bolt proved himself to be part-man, part-myth and wholly unique.
The images were taken under 10× magnification with a digital camera (Rolera Bolt, QImaging, Surrey, BC, Canada) and controlled by Micro-Manager software (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD).
This clever little piece of kit is basically a great GPS unit bolted to a 3.2-megapixel camera with 4X zoom.
