Sorry if this offends, I actually flew another camera for these guys a couple of years ago (in a hot air balloon), and they came up at work today and chums showed me this.
Most of that footage was shot with the Cineflex,. it uses fibre optic gyros and hollow shaft torque motors that run in air bearings. It is the top of the range Broadcast TV gyroball. It comes from Axis Technologies and was originally developed for mil. use and often seen on the front of an Apache gun ship. I often get to use one here in Cyprus. It is state of the art and able to hold .003 degrees of pointing accuracy. About 500,000 usd if you want to buy one.
New camera technology was used to build on the cinematic techniques first employed in Planet Earth, notably the pioneering use of stabilised helicopter-mounted cameras. The Life crew succeeded in using gyroscopic stabilisation to create steady shots from moving vehicles, even on rough terrain, allowing the cameras to track alongside reindeer and elephant herds for the first time. Miniature high-definition cameras were used extensively for the "Insects" programme. In the forests of Mexico, the crew erected a spider's web of cables in the canopy to give the sense of flying alongside millions of monarch butterflies. In Zambia, they filmed from a hot air balloon to avoid disturbing the huge flocks of straw-coloured fruit bats
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Off which topic??? (I think most of them can be placed into that context ;-)
btw, which mountains is it from?
Offtopic of this quality is welcome! Lovely footage