ABOUT

Thank you for your interest in the BERKEY SYSTEM. If you are an effects professional you already know about the many complex problems you must solve for even the simplest shot, not to mention the constant pressure to perform miracles at a moment’s notice. How many times have you shown up on the set, ready to go, only to find that once the camera is set up, the shot is not even close to the way it was boarded? With the BERKEY SYSTEM's blocks and tube, you have the flexibility of nearly instant multi-axis adjustments. This allows you to meet the challenging needs of the most demanding directors. You will have much less down time with the clients and crew sitting around waiting, while you’re in the studio workshop frantically drilling and sawing, trying to keep up with their ever changing vision of how the shot should look. The BERKEY SYSTEM is a modular effects system that was specifically developed to enable you to overcome these obstacles.

The key components of the BERKEY SYSTEM are the various lengths of tube and a wide range of use-specific blocks, all employing a pinch type clamp. BERKEY SYSTEM employs the pinch type clamp because it offers superior clamping strength without the galling, binding and imprecise fit problems associated with set screw type blocks. All of the various style blocks are machined to very close tolerances for a perfect sliding fit with the tube, giving you ease of assembly with no binding. Just a quick turn of the balldriver cinches the block securely on the tube.


Design time is greatly reduced as you can bench test many ideas quickly to determine the best approach. For many rigs, the BERKEY SYSTEM components are all you will need, for others it will serve as the foundation. The BERKEY SYSTEM will provide effects professionals with solutions for their mechanical effects. Solutions that can be easily incorporated with almost any other components (motors, drives, pneumatics, camera equipment, grip and lighting gear etc.) and provide optimum performance with incredible flexibility. BERKEY SYSTEM has a proven performance record on thousands of rigs.

All 500 series part numbers indicate 1/2-inch diameter blocks and rod, all 750 series part numbers indicate 3/4-inch diameter blocks and rod. Combining 500 series and 750 series is possible with the use of the 750 to 500 step down bushing. All BERKEY SYSTEM components are American made of 6061-T6 black anodized aluminum (unless otherwise noted) and are manufactured to the highest standards.

BERKEY SYSTEM will also create custom precision-machined parts to meet virtually any project need. Please call us at 952.476.6413 to discuss your rig requirements.