Mast assembly

A camera mast assembly comprising one or more position sensors for monitoring a position of one or more of a lifting mechanism and a stabilising mechanism.

A camera mast assembly comprising two or more sections movable with respect to one another from an unextended to an extended configuration, and a carriage attached to one of the sections for mounting a camera on the camera mast assembly wherein the carriage is movable along a length of the one of the sections to which it is attached, preferably enabling positioning of the carriage below a top of the other of the relatively movable sections when the sections are in an unextended configuration.

A camera mast assembly comprising two or more sections movable with respect to one another from an unextended to an extended configuration and a carriage attached to one of the sections for attaching a camera on the assembly, further comprising a cabling arrangement for feeding electrical cable to a camera mounted on the carriage in use, the cabling arrangement being adapted to constrain movement of the cabling during movement of the sections when raising and lowering the mast assembly.

A camera mast assembly comprising two or more movable mast sections, a lifting mechanism for moving the mast sections, a stabilising mechanism for stabilising the mast, and a controller adapted to enable adjustment of the lifting mechanism in response to instructions from a user and automatically to adjust the stabilising mechanism in response to input data derived from one or more movable sections of a position of the mast, movement of the mast due to wind and/or wind speed, thereby to optimise an extent of use of a camera in varying weather conditions.

An adjustable mast for raising and lowering an object such as a camera, aerial, antenna or the like, comprising two or more sections movable with respect to one another from an unextended to an extended configuration, and a carriage attached to one of the sections for mounting an object on the assembly, wherein the carriage is continuously movable in a substantially uniform manner from a first position wherein the sections are in the unextended configuration to a second position wherein the sections are in the extended configuration.

A camera mast assembly comprising a camera adjustment mechanism enabling at least one degree, and preferably two or three degrees, of movement of a camera and preferably one or more of raising and lowering the camera (or camera carriage), rotating the camera about a substantially vertical axis and tilting the camera about a substantially horizontal axis.