A support rod for holding an accessory component relative to a motion picture camera in a variable position along a longitudinal axis of the support rod has at least one outwardly open recess. The support rod has a set back contact region in the recess that is accessible from the outside for the electrical contacting of the accessory component.

A support rod for holding an accessory component relative to a motion picture camera in a variable position along a longitudinal axis of the support rod has at least one outwardly open recess. The support rod has a set back contact region in the recess that is accessible from the outside for the electrical contacting of the accessory component.

A target shooting tracking system has a first camera taking and recording images. An image processor receiving the images. The image processor performing image subtraction on the images to identified a latest marking on a target.

A target shooting tracking system has a first camera taking and recording images. An image processor receiving the images. The image processor performing image subtraction on the images to identified a latest marking on a target.

A video camera, a computer-implemented method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The video camera including one or more microphones and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire an output from the or each microphone; apply one or more pre-analysis filters to the or each acquired output, wherein the or each pre-analysis filter determines if the or each acquired output contains a corresponding predetermined feature of interest; and analyse the or each output, when it is determined by the or each pre-analysis filter that the corresponding output contains at least one predetermined feature of interest.

A video camera, a computer-implemented method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The video camera including one or more microphones and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire an output from the or each microphone; apply one or more pre-analysis filters to the or each acquired output, wherein the or each pre-analysis filter determines if the or each acquired output contains a corresponding predetermined feature of interest; and analyse the or each output, when it is determined by the or each pre-analysis filter that the corresponding output contains at least one predetermined feature of interest.

A remote control device is configured for a motion picture camera which has a lens and at least one lens focus setting motor for setting a focus distance of the lens and with which at least one distance measurement device for determining a distance measurement signal is associated. The remote control device comprises a portable operating unit having a base part, a first operating element that is movable into a continuously variable setting position, and a second operating element. In a manual focus operating mode a control device determines a manual focus setting value for the lens focus setting motor in dependence on the continuously variable setting position of the first operating element and outputs the manual focus setting value. In a focus transition operating mode, in dependence on an actuation of the second operating element the control device causes the lens focus setting motor to set the focus distance in accordance with a sequence of a plurality of different intermediate focus setting values that converge to a second desired starting from a first desired value of the focus distance. The first desired value or the second desired value of the focus distance corresponds to the distance measurement signal of the distance measurement device.

A support rod for holding an accessory component relative to a motion picture camera in a variable position along a longitudinal axis of the support rod has at least one outwardly open recess. The support rod has a set back contact region in the recess that is accessible from the outside for the electrical contacting of the accessory component.

A support rod for holding an accessory component relative to a motion picture camera in a variable position along a longitudinal axis of the support rod has at least one outwardly open recess. The support rod has a set back contact region in the recess that is accessible from the outside for the electrical contacting of the accessory component.

A technique enhances security measures in the IoT by reducing leakage of private images and degraded security due to unauthorized image capturing, eliminates the possibility that an unintended image is captured and stored, and also shows people around the user that the camera function of an electronic device is not working. A camera module shielding mechanism for shielding a camera module by retracting the camera module into a housing of an electronic device includes a support member supporting the camera module, a slide support supporting the support member in a slidable manner, an urging member that urges the support member in a direction in which the camera module protrudes from the housing, a locking member that locks the support member with the camera module retracted in the housing, and an actuator that unlocks the locking member.