support equipment founded 1954 founder eric miller headquarters sydney nsw australia products tripods and fluid heads slogan movin smooth website millertripods.com miller camera support equipment is the commercial name of r. e. miller pty ltd an independent australian manufacturer of tripods fluid heads and various accessories for professional camera systems dollies 1 spreaders and other camera supports such as monopods and pedestal systems . the company supplies eng efp equipment to broadcast and government . 2 miller is also the distributor of lowel lighting equipment in australia . 3 4 contents 1 history 2 location 3 main current products 3.1 fluid heads 3.2 tripods 4 references 5 external links history edit robert eric miller an australian engineer from sydney invented the fluid head for motion picture cameras for which he was granted an australian patent in 1946 and us patent in 1949 . 5 he founded miller camera support equipment in 1954 manufacturing fluid heads and tripods . the same year he developed the miller viscosity drag . this invention greatly improved image quality in films by applying user variable dampening to the pan and tilt movements of the camera . 6 miller products are widely used in australia and since 1958 have been exported to the us europe and asia . 7 location edit miller camera support equipment headquarters and manufacturing are based near sydney australia . the company also has service facilities in london and in new york plus branch offices in canada california hong kong china and various european countries . 8 9 10 main current products edit fluid heads edit 75mm bowl ds range ds5 ds10 and ds20 . introduced in 1992 . 11 compass range compass 12 compass 15 and compass 20 . introduced in 2009 . 12 13 100mm bowl arrow range arrow 25 arrow 40 and arrow 50 . 14 15 150mm bowl skyline 70 tripods edit toggle lightweight tripods with traditional locks and 75mm bowls . solo spreaderless lightweight tripods with concentric locks and 75mm or 100mm bowls . 15 sprinter fast setup lightweight tripods with 100mm bowls 15 hd heavy duty sturdy tripods with 100mm or 150mm bowls references edit miller solo dolly av specialist february 2006 p2 miller supports beijing coverage content technology july august 2008 p38 company details encore magazine australia lowel dealers us 2459040 a tripod head . google patent search . retrieved 2 august 2016 . acs magazine june 2006 p22 . australian cinematographers society president john leake presents his 40 year old miller tripod to the national film and sound archive miller history on power house museum encore magazine 8 october 1999 issue miller opens london facility p34 broadcast engineering news june 1998 steady as she goes with miller miller office in new york nj broadcast engineering news encore magazine australia november 1998 miller moves ahead release of the compass range at the 2009 sydney smpte show compass pre release vizcom technologies arrow range broadcast engineering news a b c . studio monthly . 1 february 2006 field sticks http www.studiodaily.com studiomonthly searchlist 5997.html field sticks check url value help . retrieved 2009 07 29 . missing or empty title help external links edit miller official website statement of significance on power house museum retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title miller camera support equipment & oldid 732652483 categories photography equipmenthidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlspages with url errorsuse dmy dates from february 2012use australian english from february 2012all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 2 august 2016 at 10 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view