Application
Camera Fiber for Rental and Touring Stock
Gear that is mated in the dark, in the rain, by people who did not buy it. It has to survive that.
Rental stock lives a harder life than installed equipment. Connectors are mated hundreds of times, cables are coiled wet, and the same kit is asked to work with a different camera family every few weeks.
That is why the camera-side adaptor and the base station are sold as separate items as well as pairs: in practice one side fails or walks away far more often than the other, and a rental house wants a shelf of spares rather than a shelf of sets.
For field work, the ODC connector option is the usual choice, because an expanded-beam connector tolerates the dirt and repeated mating that a studio connector will not.
What changes in practice
- +Adaptors and base stations available as separate spares
- +ODC connector option for field mating
- +One cable per position keeps the drum count down
- +Common base station platform across camera families
The equipment behind this