Pre Production

Esprit offers specialist camera equipment such as Red Epic, cameras from Sony and Canon and Panasonic and minicams from Lux Media Plan and Panasonic complimented with lenses from Canon, Nikon, Leica and Zeiss. The camera equipment is supported by grip and lighting equipment from leading manufactures. Often Esprit Needs to design and build specialist rigs for our 3D work such as our industry leading Hawk side by side, Harrier underslung Mirror rig and Gryffon Overslung mirror rig all specially designed for the rigours of Wildlife acquisition. Esprit prefer to use the term Photo-Cinematography for photographic work which we are involved which brings together the very best lenses using the best cameras for our clients work. This can be specialist sills lenses on Cinematography cameras or motion picture lenses on stills cameras the aim is to create systems that offer outstanding images with the best use of technology.

Underwater Cinematography is a specialist area where we offer Underwater camera equipment to the worlds leading cinematographers. We work closely with Housing manufacturers to offer complete camera systems to work in the worlds harshest locations. Camera systems range from Digital Stills camera's to Deep Epic which is the highest quality underwater Cinematography camera system available today.

Esprit offer Audio equipment to the Broadcast and Music industries. We stock over 200 leading specialist microphones from manufacturers such as Neumann, Micro tech Geffel, ShoeppsShoeps, Tram, AKG, Sony STC, Beyer and many others. We also stock Radio microphones from Audio Limited, recently upgrading to the new radio bans of Channel 38 and 39 to ensure long term licensing compliance. A full range of ancillary equipment such as mixers and other equipment is also stocked.

Esprit offer Underwater communications for Broadcast Television which have been developed over many years to offer high quality audio reliably working underwater. our wireless and cable systems are based on the industrial and military communications systems offered by Ocean Technology Systems. Esprit take this base system and add to is Presenter communications to offer a high quality easy to operate location recording or live system. Diver full face masks are also offered specifically for Television work supported by breathing systems set up for Presenter lead television work.

Esprit have been working with 3D imaging for over 20 years. We help create content that is comissioned for Cinema and Television and we are pleased to have contributed to some of the much wached 3D programming to date and we continue to work on ground breaking 3D programming which will be seen soon.

Esprit work with off the shelf 3D rigs and also design and have profesionaly built our own 3D rig systems such as rigs for Highspeed, underwater and macro photography. Our rigs are Esprit Harrier (Under Through, mirror), Hawk (Side by Side), Gryffon (Over Through, Mirror), these rigs were designed to be robust, light and simple to use. Mirrors in our rigs are calibrated to 2% transmissive, reflective and are designed to be higher tollerance than most commercial mirrors so we have less photographic errors. The aim as always, is to have equipment that helps improve content and tell the story better.

Our go to camera is Red Epic as its formfactor lends it self to 3D easily and its one of the best cameras in the world today. We also use LMP HD1200 miniture 2/3 2K cameras which are very small and light whilst exceding technical specifications for broadcasters. Both camera systems can be used on our rigs and also high speed cameras such as Photron SA2's.

3D is under constant improvment and development to creade equipment that is smaller, lighter and more cost effective top operate in feild for Wildlife and Feature Cinematography.