ARRI just announced as an addition to their Stabilised Remote Head family, the brand new ARRI DEH-1. This system will allow professional operators to remote control the ARRI SRH-3. The DEH-1 is based on Cartoni technology and will work in conjunction with flat base supports or tripods with Mitchell base, produced by the Australian manufacturer for camera support equipment Miller. ARRI DEH-1: An addition to the stabilised remote head family The DEH-1 is also a world-first in terms of its way of information transfer and interoperability since it makes use of the LBUS protocol as the first digital encoder head ever. LBUS has been introduced by cmotion at IBC 2012 and it has ever since spread widely among ARRI products. The idea is to send various control information from a single port to several devices (such as cforce mini RF, WCU-4, cinefade, AMC-1, and others). At the same time, these devices are daisy-chained and still only react to a distinct signal, that reflects their particular function and meanwhile discard/bypass information, that is useless for them. These could be engines designated for zoom, focus or other functionalities or properties of attached devices. In this case, it is for example intended to use them with a flexible drag system within the head to perform tilt and pan with the SRH-3 stabilised remote head. The latter usually comes with a joystick control board. ARRI DEH-1: What’s new? The DEH-1 system makes use of a Cartoni patented fluid drag system for tilt and pan directions,...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 8 August, 2019