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TZ05 - Camera Stabilization Equipment

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In this episode, we dive into the expensive, or, at the least, tedious realm of camera stabilization equipment. This ranges from the all-powerful, all-knowing fluid tripod head, to the much used and often abused dolly. We don't own and operate an actual Steadicam or a jib or a crane, but hey, we'll mention them, too. We'll cover: * Track dolly, Fluid tripod head, Homemade Fig Rig, Car mount, Zooming To compliment this episode, we're making a very short film that will employ as much of the above equipment as possible. We should hopefully be able to post it on Friday. We've also opened a forum over on our homepage at: http://www.takezer0.com/forum come and check it out!

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: June 7, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Author: esotericsean

Length: 10:58
Rating: 4.57
Views: 11336

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oskararnarson (August 21, 2008 at 3:46 pm)
rawfmradio, you're dead wrong. A steadicam is a camera support system that facilitates smooth and flexible movement of a camera through a space by a single camera operator. As long as it does its job, it doesn't matter whether you have a vest, an eso-elastic arm and so forth. Never heard of the merlin steadicam? Oh and you sound like you're 13. Spot on, no?
esotericsean (July 13, 2008 at 3:31 pm)
That's some good advice, I've done that when I filmed a wedding once and it worked pretty well.
mikosoft (July 13, 2008 at 10:55 am)
For an ocassional use you can use your tripod as a quick steadicam/glidecam. All you need to do is put the camera onto the tripod, fold the legs and extend the center pole so that the folded legs provide counterbalance for the camera. You have to find center of gravity and hold your "rig" there. It is quick and crude but surprisingly effective.
sndmann5 (June 17, 2008 at 8:20 am)
Thanks guys. Well done. I learned some useful stuff. Ignore the critics. I like your style.
esotericsean (May 28, 2008 at 9:11 pm)
Thanks, always glad to help man :)
kainevan (May 28, 2008 at 8:54 pm)
Very helpful guys, thanks, i learnt alot 5 stars
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SanitySource (April 4, 2008 at 8:26 pm)
good video but very akward, u guys need to get comfortable with being on camera
Ben1257sb (March 23, 2008 at 11:19 pm)
please watch my improved diy steadicam video. what do you think?
PlasticDesigns (March 8, 2008 at 8:55 pm)
Thanks a lot!

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