Panaflex User's Manual, 2nd Edition

Environmental Protective Equipment

Creative cinematography often demands that a camera must continue to work perfectly under conditions of intense cold, desert heat and dust, driving rain, sea and storm, severe vibration, stress and ‘g’ forces and in dangerous places.

Intense Cold

PANAFLEX cameras and magazines are fitted with internal heaters which ensure that they run freely and quietly under even the coldest conditions.

Additional heater barneys are available to cover and give additional warmth to the camera, the magazines and the lenses (especially zoom lenses) and are advisable for use when the camera is set up in an exposed position where the wind chill factor is likely to be significant. Where camera heaters and heater barneys are likely ...