Cable Cam Systems

Here is how this works in practice. We supply cable cam systems and the rigging crews to deploy them where Iceland's terrain makes a suspended camera the right answer — across a river gorge, along the face of a waterfall, or over ground too broken for track. Our teams survey anchor points, calculate line tension and loads, and rig multi-point cable runs that carry a stabilised camera head smoothly at speed.

Here is the short of it. Wind is the defining engineering factor: a tensioned line over an exposed Icelandic canyon behaves very in new ways in gusts, so our riggers plan loads with margin, monitor conditions, and brief the production honestly on weather windows. Cold and damp affect winches, mechanical parts and the camera payload, and we plan cold-weather handling into each job. Our crews integrate the cable cam with the camera department for framing, focus and stabilised head control, and they plan rigging footprints that follow durable ground.

We staff from the skilled Reykjavík crew base and bring in extra cable cam hardware and rigging pros from the UK and mainland Europe under ATA carnet for larger shoots.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland's geography is full of spans that suit cable cam work: a subarctic island on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge cut by river canyons, ringed by waterfalls. Dettifoss, Goðafoss, Gullfoss — and opened up by the vast, sparsely populated Highlands. A cable run lets a production cross those features with a moving camera that no other rig can match. The fast-changing subarctic weather is the central challenge, since rigging a cable cam takes time and a tensioned line cannot simply be repositioned, so our crews build weather backup into the schedule.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Much of the ground is fragile, with moss and lava that recover only over decades, so anchor points and crew routes are planned to respect the 'leave no trace' principle, and filming in covered areas is set up with the Environment Agency of the country. Eligible crew and gear spend can count toward the country's production reimbursement of 25 per cent, rising to 35 per cent for qualifying projects, administered by Film in the country.