PARTS OF A TRIPOD
These are the legs of the camera mount.
What are pods?
Pointing the camera up or down.
What is tilt?
These keep you from running over cables on the studio floor.
What are cable guards?
This is the movement of the jib arm from right to left or left to right.
What is tongue?
Cylindrical camera mount that can be bolted to a dolly or scenery to permit panning and tilting of the camera.
What is a high hat?
This is the mounting head that supports cameras that typically weigh less than 30 pounds.
What is a fluid head?
What is pan?
This mounting device supports cameras over 30 pounds.
What is a cam head?
This is the movement of the entire camera crane dolly base.
What is crab?
Wedge-shapped plate that attached to the bottom of a studio camera.
What is wedge mount?
This device allows you to level the camera mount slightly after it is set up.
What is the leveling bowl?
Raising or lowering the camera by means of a studio pedestal?
What is pedestal?
This is the bottom of the studio pedestal.
What is the base?
This is tilting the shoulder-mounted camera sideways.
What is cant?
Mounting plate used to attach cameras to the fluid head.
What is quick release plate?
This keeps the camera mount from collapsing.
Moving the camera laterally by means of a mobile camera mount?
What is track or truck?
You use this to direct the movements of the studio pedestal?
What is the steering wheel?
This is a slightly curved dolly or truck.
What is an arc?
Changing the focal length of a lens while the camera remains stationary.
What is zoom?
The camera mount can be attached to this, which is basically a spreader with wheels.
What is a dolly?
Moving the camera towards or away from the subject.
What is dolly?
This center column of the studio pedestal raises the camera up or lets it down.
What is the telescoping column.
This is raising or lowering the boom arm with the camera attached.
What is crane or boom?
Camera mount whose built-in springs hold the camera steady while the operator moves.
What is steadicam