SmallRig will quickly announce an airbag system for cameras known as the AirGuard. The corporate says that the system, which is built-in right into a digital camera cage, makes use of an accelerometer to detect a fall and robotically deploys an airbag to guard the digital camera.
Leaked on Weibo and noticed by Sony Alpha Rumors, the AirGuard makes use of three small modules that maintain a compressed air canister (particularly touted as a micro, high-pressure gasoline cylinder) that deploys a literal airbag to guard a digital camera.
SmallRig describes the airbag module as having a built-in high-sensitivity acceleration sensor. When a digital camera falls, the sensor opens the airbag robotically to kind a versatile protecting body that encompasses the digital camera and lens from a number of instructions and angles.
The airbag has sufficient time to deploy and might shield a digital camera from an efficient top of between 0.3 to a few meters (about 11.8 inches to about 9.8 toes), which simply covers the peak of any regular desk and effectively past. The flexibility to detect a fall in as little as 0.2 seconds, which is quick sufficient to react to a fall of lower than a foot can be spectacular.
SmallRig exhibits three AirGuard airbag items on the skin of a digital camera cage (prime, one facet, and backside) as sufficient to guard a digital camera and lens from a fall. Moreover, the airbag items are replaceable.
The corporate describes the AirGuard as “modular,” which doubtless signifies that the airbag items will be connected to a digital camera cage of a number of sizes that may embody a variety of cameras. In its advertising supplies, SmallRig particularly exhibits a Sony mirrorless digital camera, however clearly the corporate believes the system is able to defending cameras of a variety of sizes; the airbags are rated to guard a digital camera between 500 and 4,100 grams (from between about 1.1 and 9 kilos).
The concept of a small deployable protecting airbag system isn’t new. For instance, the Hövding is the same concept that works for human heads and is billed as an airbag for cyclists.
Extra not too long ago, a Chinese language firm constructed an “airbag jacket” that might shield the aged from a fall.
Whereas the final idea isn’t new, this is perhaps the primary time the concept has been built-in right into a digital camera cage to particularly shield high-value cameras and lenses. The leak doesn’t point out a worth or a launch date, however count on to see it listed on SmallRig’s web site quickly.
