Good to see helmets and flight suites are being adopted.
By my reckoning excluding the mid air collision between news choppers, survivability of cameramen when shooting hand held with door open is very poor compared to an accident involving a stabilised mount.
Around 18% of accidents when stabilised camera is in use are fatal to cameramen, but >50% of accidents when hand held or door open shooting is taking place are fatal to cameraman!
Also incidence of accidents with doors open is double that of stabilised.
Mickjoebill
Last edited by mickjoebill; 4th Aug 2013 at 02:02.