Pillar 01 · Technical Innovation

Put a product in the hands of people who have not yet learned to work around its faults.

Experienced crew adapt to a design flaw without noticing. People who are new fail to get the shot, and tell you why. We put both on the same unit, and report what each did.

What we test

What we test.

Camera body on a bench under test

Camera

Cameras and optics

Bodies, lenses, monitoring and media, digital and 35mm.

Stabilised rig on the move

Support

Stabilisation and support

Gimbals, remote heads and rigging, run by grips.

Drone prepped on a landing pad

Aerial

Drones and aerial

Airframes, payloads and the aerial day around them.

Operator wearing a support exoskeleton

Wearable

Exoskeletons and load

Wearable support, against fatigue over a working day.

Virtual production

VP

Virtual production

LED volumes, tracking and in-camera VFX.

AI tools open on a laptop beside a monitor stack

AI

AI Tools and Workflows

Editorial, sound and production-office tools, tested by department.

A camera rig built up on the bench in the test room.

The room

A test room, and a package to test against.

An operator carrying a camera on an exoskeleton support rig

Facility

Bench work, then a shoot day.

The Ken Adam Building at Pinewood. Bench space, power, monitoring, and a known package to measure against, from MR Helix Ltd.

Network

The practitioners, and the people who are new.

Heads of department from HETV drama and feature film, alongside trainees holding a grade and meeting your product for the first time.

The practitioners, and the people who are new.

The day

What a test day is.

01

Scope

You say what you need to know. It is agreed in writing before the kit arrives.

02

Bench

Build, teardown and controlled comparison, against a package the crew already know.

03

Shoot

Onto a working unit for a shooting day, scheduled and crewed like a production.

04

Report

Observed use, not a questionnaire. Operator notes and a structured comparison, under mutual NDA.

Next

Bring us something that is not finished.

Tell us what it is and what you need to know.