Cartoni celebrates 90 years with the launch of its Encoded Series (E-Heads) line

Designed by Cartoons for XR applications, the Italian manufacturer that turns 90, will attend NAB 2025 to present its new line Encoded Series (E-Heads) with a total of eleven encoded fluid heads ready for SFX, VFX, VR and XR intended for use in cinema and virtual production.

Both for sports programs and for the production of visual effects, Capturing camera position metadata is a must. The new Cartoni E series provides control and delivery of data in real time with a higher level of precision for each stage of production and delivery. The new E-series provides your production team with additional pan and tilt position data, which can be seamlessly integrated into your graphics or game engine to deliver a seamless experience. fully immersive production.

The president and CEO of Cartoni, Elisabetta Cartoni, comments that "Image acquisition protocols are evolving and advancing. Very soon, the integration of camera mount position data will become a common requirement to correctly match a virtual or graphic insert to a real-time image. Anticipating this trend, we have moved quickly to meet the diverse needs of sports, news coverage, studios, places of worship, educational television, advertising and film."

At its booth N2539 in Las Vegas, Cartoni will showcase its latest Lifto PTZ support systems, heads, pedestals, lifting columns, and a retrospective that spans from its first 1935 film tripod and Gyro head (complete with a 1936 Mitchell NC camera, courtesy of the American Society of Cinematographers) to its latest E-series heads for film and television, designed to provide unmatched camera positioning data accuracy. same. Currently, Cartoni has 36 different patents, registered in Italy, United Kingdom, Germany and all other EEC countries, United States, China and India on fluid action and counterbalance systems.