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| ChromeDragon |
The ghetto steadycam. It's not exactly perfect, but it is a huge, HUGE improvement over handheld. And the best part ... you can build it yourself for under $20 with parts from the hardware store. A few people have modified them to get different effects, but the principle is the same. Where the pro cams use springs and struts to dampen the motion, here your arm does the work.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/
He has a few sample vids in the link, but if you hit up Youtube you can see many examples from people. |
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| ChromeDragon |
Apparently going with a system without a side handle helps get rid of the tilting issue this guy has in some of his vids, but then you're carrying the whole weight on one arm.
The modification I noticed working best was having an inverted Y joint at the bottom and using two 2.5lb weights instead of the one 5lb weight. |
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| shawley |
| i'll foresure have to try that |
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| Cyanide Ride |
I remember that rig, one local film maker was using one about 13 years ago for a paintball movie being made at Ultimate Adventure downtown.
His was more archaic, but it does the job exceptionally well. |
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| fugumerkur |
im liking that.! Maybe we could see who can produce the best vid from the meets out of any members wanting to participate.
Charge an entry fee and reward the best voted short film the pool of money and a runner up?
Though if someone had a skateboard and a rope you could have some smooth film too.! |
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| ChromeDragon |
quote:
Originally posted by Cyanide Ride
I remember that rig, one local film maker was using one about 13 years ago for a paintball movie being made at Ultimate Adventure downtown.
His was more archaic, but it does the job exceptionally well.
Wait a second ... MORE archaic?:blink: |
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| shawley |
quote:
Originally posted by fugumerkur
im liking that.! Maybe we could see who can produce the best vid from the meets out of any members wanting to participate.
Charge an entry fee and reward the best voted short film the pool of money and a runner up?
Though if someone had a skateboard and a rope you could have some smooth film too.!
u prob havn't seen all my videos haha (come talk to me at a meet and i'll try to give you a copy of one of my dvd's)
i have like 5g's in camera equiptment, and like 100 tapes of video haha
but i was asked to not post my movies on here because there are short clips of illegal activities, such as my formula D trip video, it had one highway pull of my buddys s14 for like 5 sec, and some parking lot drifting(at my frineds shop on private property, their property) and it was removed
check out a couple of my videos that are allowed to be posted
my last trip to the states a short video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDI0firkww
grandprix drifting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DqUrCu6ts
d-sport at stratotech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPdJta3mE2g
you can look at my other videos in there just look thru the shawley023 videos for some OLD OLD videos of mine, |
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