BBC News Channel General Discussion

From the looks of it the camera is now back in action, but the composition of the shots it's giving seems different. It is the camera that does shots showing the screen to the rear and left of the presenter, and the focus on the shots it is producing seems a bit different now, with the screen just slightly out of focus, whereas usually it's quite clear - the depth of field makes it look more like a DSLR IMO!

EDIT: Unless they can move a different camera to the same place they've definitely got it back, although it isn't moving whilst on-camera at the moment (although it did in the 11pm TOTH).

Here is all 10 seconds of said incident...

Almost looks like the height adjustment went out and the glass from the prompter was knocked loose.

I forget are the height drives in Furios pressurized like the Vinten Radamecs?

Apart from the bit just before the section you uploaded, where you can hear clicking noises from the camera.

Looks like the ped was rising and then lost pressure/power (are these furios hydraulic or electrical driven?) so the camera dropped with a fair old whack, causing the autocue glass to fall out and possibly knock the backfocus out.

You can definitely tell that the glass came out as Ben looks at the floor when after the camera dropped

The glass didn't just "come out" it seems like it smashed when it hit the floor.

@ChrisGunness haha thanks Chris - glass off the front shattered - think I need a flak jacket in this studio!

— Ben Brown (@BenBrownBBC) August 11, 2015

Indeed, Ben Brown is so stuffy and straight laced.

Weather thread has been archived so I'll put this here.

Nina Ridge did her final weather for the BBC today after 15 years. She did her forecast as per and then sat at the desk for a chat and her best bits. She's going back to teaching.

Yes. How dare he react in a professional manner to a technical problem.

Exactly - it's one thing to make light of an issue for a couple of laughs perhaps, but you can always just get on with it. If they'd been discussing a more serious story there would be no choice in the matter.

Another camera mishap - after the headline summary it looks like the camera that should have been pointing at the video wall span round and moved to the guest position at the desk on the other side of the studio. Ben Brown understandably looked a bit lost in the wide shot after the headlines with no cameras pointing at him - then they cut to the guest position. They then switched to this shot and eventually zoomed in a little so it didn't looks quite as odd.