I don't normally post here, I'm an audio guy
I'm running the sound for a concert coming up our AV department is putting in a screen and cameras.
Normally they put in a camera on a boom which floats around the front of the stage and generally looks horrible.
What I would like to find is something much smaller to point them in the direction of, I've seen one a few years ago but I don't know the brand or model or even what its called so I'll do the best job I can of describing.
Basically it was a pole about 10ft long with a swivel mount on one end. Attached to the swivel was a short camera (I'm inclined to call it a pencil cam). Power and composite for the camera fed down the pole. The whole thing weighed next to nothing and it didn't need any ballast like the big cameras.
As you twist the pole in your hands, the camera pans left to right on the end.
It was great because it was small and unobtrusive on the stage, you could literally poke the thing anywhere and get some great shots without the artists feeling like they had a camera in their face.
Can anyone tell me firstly what this contraption would be called, and secondly manufacturers or brands that might be of use.
My googling of "Pencil Cam" and Polecam have not been too sucessful.
My apologies, I don't know much about Video, but I'm keen to show our AV guys how something like this could work well on a concert stage where their bloody huge camera rigs are overkill and just get in my way