track 24 to capture crowd shots or landscape footage these auxiliary cameras 76 are controlled by the operator 54 and may be configured to track the node 20 unslaved cameras 16 b or locked off cameras are utilised by the joystick operated switch 92 which enables their pan tilt zoom and focus to be set using the joystick 34 joystick zoom trigger and the focus wheel 102 when the joystick operator switch 92 is on then the joystick 34 focus wheel 102 and joystick zoom trigger only control that specific camera 16 switching off the joystick operated switch 92 sets the unslaved cameras 16 b in that position and resets the joystick 34 to control the slaved cameras 16 a the zoom sliders 88 may still be utilised for individual slaved 16 a and unslaved 16 b cameras at all times each of the cameras 16 and 76 transmits a signal 80 which is received by the control apparatus 12 the footage captured by each particular camera 16 and 76 is displayed on a separate display screen 82 the operator 54 is then able to select the best footage for the television production which is displayed on a master display 84 the television production is then broadcast 86 using a conventional analogue or digital signal as illustrated in fig7 the interface panel 26 includes a node velocity control bar 32 a joystick 34 a series of camera specific controls 36 and auxiliary switches 38 the camera specific controls 36 include a zoom slider 88 a slave switch 90 and a joystick operation switch 92 the slave switch 90 aligns the centre line 18 of the camera 16 with the node 20 the slave switch 90 engages the functions of.