Oscar Award Winning Telescopic crane: Hydrascope

Every year Oscars honour technical achievement award for the development of motion picture film making,  this year one of the awards were given to Hydrascope Telescopic crane.

 Leonard Chapman for the overall concept, design and development, to Stanislav Gorbatov for the electronic system design, and to David Gasparian and Souhail Issa for the mechanical design and integration of the Hydrascope telescoping camera crane systems.

The most outstanding feature of the Hydrascope cranes are that they are all completely waterproof (perfect for all weather filming). The only telescopic cranes that don’t need covers  or external power sources, allowing the Hydrascope complete freedom of movement on location at a moments notice. The watertight design allows for submerged underwater filming and the Hydrascope will accept any underwater camera.

Hydrascopes can easily cope with large camera payloads of 230 pounds, making them a perfect camera platform for 3D film making. Compatible with any of today’s 3D camera systems, as well as all existing film and digital cameras.

This Hydrascope crane is 73 feet height can be  dollies,  Vehicles, onto Track, precision engineered 3 axis, telescopic arm, height adjustable centre post and (unique to the Hydrascope) four point leveling arms at the base, the Hydrascope is smooth and accurate allowing operators to hit their marks every time.

With its fully waterproof construction, the Hydrascope has greatly advanced crane technology and versatility by enabling precise long-travel multi-axis camera movement in, out of and through fresh or salt water.

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CJ Rajkumar

Author/Cinematographer