Caerus Expertise, based by disabled filmmaker Chris Lynch, launched a wheelchair digicam system at IBC 2025. Named after the traditional Greek god of alternative, Caerus is designed to assist people with disabilities work on-set as digicam operators.
By means of the early levels of his profession, Lynch realized that he couldn’t authentically tackle the position of DP as a result of his incapacity was too restrictive to attain photographs that required shifting nimbly and at velocity, significantly by small areas.
Constructed to accommodate a spread of impairments, Caerus removes most of the limitations that individuals with disabilities would face in attempting to work as a digicam operator. It may well work in single-operator mode to manage each the gimbal and focus, or the operator can seamlessly hand these capabilities off to different assistant digicam operators on-set. This provides the operator the flexibility to give attention to the motion of the system and different duties, resembling monitoring topics or expertise. It even has a stabilized hand-held possibility, which widens its utility throughout productions even additional.
Caerus makes use of a self-balancing wheelchair known as the Genny Zero, an Italian-designed, Swiss-made wheelchair with a high velocity of 20kph and a spread of 25km. As a result of there are solely two wheels, it might probably slot in smaller areas than most standard electrical chairs, that means that Caerus operators can now match a few of the trade norms, resembling Steadicam.
World manufacturers in TV and movie helped co-create the expertise and help its improvement, together with Ronford-Baker, Crimson, CVP, DJI, Ignite Digi, Ottobock, NiSi and BlkBird.
The expertise is designed to go well with a spread of various manufacturing sorts and is available in three totally different fashions:
- Caerus Vista — This all-around indoor and outside mannequin is able to dealing with most manufacturing sorts and a wi-fi vary of as much as 6km.
- Caerus Studio — This package deal is designed for indoor studio use for heavy digicam and lens
- Caerus Rover — An all-in-one outside studio, this providing is suited to interviews and comes with onboard lighting, LiveU, onboard energy, teleprompter and even a customized umbrella to cowl the system and expertise.
