In
Planet Earth, he says, the team achieved visual breakthroughs by attaching a specially-developed gyro-stabilized camera with an extremely powerful zoom lens to a helicopter. This let them film animals from the sky, without disturbance and without camera shake. In
Our Planet, the team has mounted these same cameras on new vehicles: in one sequence, the camera slides smoothly alongside a pack of running prairie dogs. This sequence was filmed not from a helicopter but from a jeep, as it raced over land filled with potholes and anthills. βYou seem to be running with the dogs,β says Fothergill. βYou could never film that with a traditional tripod: every shot is moving, because all of it is shot with a very powerful lens from quite a long way away, about 100 metres from the action.β
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