London Banter - View Single Post - BBC's Dire Coverage of the Thames Flotilla and other Jubillee Events

Graeme Wall · June 8th 12, 02:49 PM posted to uk.rec.waterways,uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 08/06/2012 12:11, d wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:04:25 +0100
wrote:
It seems that some cameras were indeed killed by the weather, as this
account by Clare Balding indicates: "Balding, a freelance presenter
and not a BBC employee, said staff did the best they could but were
beset by technical problems.

Perhaps I'm being naive here - but shouldn't outside broadcast equipment
be rainproof? After all , it is going to be used, errm, outside.

You would have thought so :-0 The problem is there are too many
miniature connectors for things like power supply and servo controls to
the lens. Also radio link equipment is notoriously finicky in wet
weather. There were also problems with the sound equipment on the
orchestra boat caused by the weather.

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