The Porta
Brace Story.
Porta-Brace is the world’s leading designer
of field cases for professional video and audio production.
The company began operation in 1972 when the original
Porta-Brace was a back frame that carried a video recorder
and camera with a swivelling gooseneck camera arm that
supported the camera at Eye level and allowed it to
be swung to the side when not in use (the gooseneck
shape is incorporated in the design of the Porta Brace
logo).
An Alpine back frame was modified to support
the camera and also held a very heavy reel-to-reel
portable tape recording deck. This Porta-Brace invention
was a pre-curser of the ‘Steady-Cam’ camera
support system.
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