BBC’s filmmakers use various specialized pieces of equipment to make their immersive wildlife documentaries, and these equipments have continued to improve and evolve over the years.
Among the earliest nature documentaries ever made was a BBC nature documentary series called “Zoo Quest” in 1954 which was filmed with a lightweight 16mm camera as insisted by presenter Sir David Attenborough, a choice for which he was sneered at by the BBC film department, which deemed his plan on how to film the series as “amateur”.