Remote Pan Tilt Zoom Heads

A little off topic, but I'm looking for anyone with experience of Pan & Tilt assemblies for larger camcorders that come with an all in one controller which will also do LANC. I love the idea of the Panasonic PTZ cameras with HD-SDI but they are just too expensive and wouldn't allow us to use our JVC GY-HM600's for other more traditional filming..

Does anyone have any experience of these things? good manufacturer etc?

Thanks!

I have thought that there could be a market for a VISCA compatible pan/tilt head that also had LANC compatibility. I would think someone could make one for a very reasonable price that could support some of the smaller camcorders and thus create an economical remote camera system.

I do use Egripment heads for that purpose at the moment. But they don't come cheap...

I've build a MAC2000 into a JVC HD-251 P/T head including ENG lens control a while ago.
It was too bulky on stage, so I ended up using MAC101's instead with SONY camerablocks. I use them in multi-cam environment. On my website you see some examples.

Take a look at Grizzly Pro Video
www.grizzlypro.com/
They make workable low cost systems that should work with those JVC cameras.

A big name in camera control systems is Telemetrics:

http://www.telemetricsinc.com/products/camera-robotics/pan-tilt-heads.

Russ

How about the robotic pan tilt head from SEEDER manufacturer.
This robotic heads can be handled for remote photography by a single person through network.