[AaronLancs]

Why would you need more than 7 cameras in that studio?  Which shots required a Steadicam or Jib?

All three of the shots you’ve cited in your earlier post, for one!

The shot of the stairs starts further away (which I accept one of the robot cameras could probably do) but ends closer to Laura and the guest than your capture shows - the camera is directly underneath the stairs by the end. The perspective change makes it obvious that it’s not a simple zoom from further away, and as there is no track directly underneath the stairs it can only have been done with an additional camera.

Again, the shot from your second cap ends up much closer to the guest - the camera is basically immediately behind the guest’s shoulder by the finish. Again, maybe one of the robot cameras could do a zoomed-in version of this shot from a distance, but the camera is clearly moving closer to the guest and there are no rails that could allow a robot camera to do said shot.

Finally, in the third capture the camera is basically resting on the floor. But as can be seen in your image of the robot cameras themselves, the cameras can’t go that low as you’d have the monitors underneath them smashing into the floor!

One thing to bear in mind with these Electric.Friends cameras is how low the camera can go. Especially with how the BBC have had the team configure it.

On this page on their (E.E) website this gives an idea on what the tower is capable of and if one were to remove the screens at the bottom of the 'first generation' ones. A BBC modified one can go that low.

ELECTRIC.FRIENDS - TOWER.W2

Also read up on the project in this article that TVB Europe has that features esteemed BBC presentation director extraordinaire Chris Cook:

TVB EUROPE: "WE WANTED TO BUILD..."

Plus if one were to look at the this Tower that is on The Circle Line side on. You can quite clearly see how high it can go to the top and how low it can go near the bottom with the opening on this shot: