If you thought the best way to get a unique shot was a small camera and a lot of gaffer tape then it’s time to think again.At this event our panel reveals some of the secrets of capturing world beating images without any CGI.

John Downer’s team won last year’s RTS award for design and craft innovation with “Pets-Wild at Heart”. This was shot on a huge variety of different camera systems from the latest high speed infrared to the almost forgotten technique of Schlieren photography that showed the air current around a budgie’s wings. Phil Dalton worked on the series and is licenced as a commercial drone operator. He explains what these remarkable but controversial machines can do and what they must not do.

Mike Colyer, RTS Young Technologist 2015, works in a very different world where drones are definitely not allowed.  He develops and deploys the special cameras used in Formula One where the most dramatic shots must be captured in perfect safety and without affecting the drivers or their cars.  He believes that special cameras could and should be used far more widely, even in costume dramas.