Nestor Salazar

Hello Fellow operator 

I would like to know about the rates in the US for a steadicam operator? If any could share. 
 

thanks In advance

Arm i sold 

NEW PRICE  3400 Dollar + Shipping 

location. Stockholm, Sweden 

VEST IS SOLD 

SALE PENDING 

Im seeling my well used vest. I would say this is primary for spare parts. But it could work for the 1 vest of a new operator. I would buy new pads if possible. 

I can send it any were in the world. buyer pays shipping and eventually VAT.

Im asking 700 Dollar + shipping OBO

Im selling my trusted 3A arm 

This arm is a work horse and it has worked wonderfully for many years and projects. I bought it in late 2007 and Robert Luna did a complete overhaul on the arm in early 2016. 

I haven´t worked with the arm this since 2017. Carrying range is between 15-30 kg. (33-66IBS). Arm serial nr is 572.

The package include. Arm, arm cover and allen key 

I can send it any were in the world if needed, but eventually VAT will be added. 

Im asking 4200 Dollar + plus shipping

My location is Stockholm, Sweden.

Thanks Ron

But what do you mean with no safety. I was strapped to the seat and the pace on the vehicle is walking pace.

Thanx.

Hello guys

I would like to have an answer on a specific shot. I´m helping a DP test a few shot to a feature he his working with. We have tried 2 sort of set ups.

The first is with steadicam about 3 m up in the air, hard mounted. I felt that it was a little bit tricky since the speed of the vehicle wast´t constant and it was on a windy day. The picture is good but it waves from side to side.

The other was with an equipment called G motion & chapman vertical vibration isolator. also about 3 m up in the air. It looked good from down but I thought that the picture was to shake. I think that they are gonna do some work to stabilize the image later on postproduction

My question to you is if I use Gyros on the steadicam, do you think that it would help/better. The framing is from above looking about 45 degrees down. As static as possible.

Many thanks for the help.

Nestor Salazar

Hello all

I also just bought my archos 5. Ive been using it on a couple of job and its been working great. Its very easy to use, to watch the videos you recorded and to download them to the computer.. It have alot of nice ad ons like GPS that I have been thinking of bying.. I don have the power cable to my nexus yet, so I have been using it on batteries. But as soon as I have the cable it will be complete. I would like to have something more adapted to field work, but right now I can´t think of having anything else for that price. I would defenetly recommended it.

Hello everybody.

My name is Nestor Salazar. Am a new operator from Sweden. Am gonna finally purchase my first rig :D and I been looking for an arm. I have seen one but I heard thats something wrong with it. I just dont now how much problem that is.

I have attached some pics for you to look at. Hope you guys can see in the middle of the picture, inside the springs. like something is stuck.

My question is

- Is this a problem / can it be fixed, were and how much will it cost.??

Ive heard that they have tested it and it works fine. But it makes a clocking sound when you boom up or down.!!

- Another question that I have is how much this arm carries.?? As far as I now its a master arm.??

Hope somebody can Answer my questions.

Kind Regards

Nestor Salazar Manriquez

That sounds interesting.

I would like a copy to please.

Well everybody.

Now I now moore. I havent tried goofy since the workshop. Well they didnt exactly tell us that we HAD to have the steadicam regular. But they teached that way. By the way the teacher was Jerry Holway.

Well am gonna try it and see how it feels.

Thanx again everybody for your detaild information. Nice to have big brothers. :blink:

Greetings

Hi nestor,

 

It sounds like your vest and arm adjustment is not correct, when you walk in a straight line, your body should be straight too. Try this in front of a big mirror or let other people judge your posture.

When you have to curve your spine to balance or walk like a crab ((more or less sideways, on the sides of your feet) something is not well adjusted.

That can be the reason for the one-sided pain.

 

Not with all arms and vest you have enough adjustment possibilities, to be honest. Specially the more simple rigs/systems don't have all the options you want.

 

And sometimes people discover that when they change sides , from regular to goofy or visa versa, it becomes much more manageble. I saw this happen a few times in a workshop.

 

Other than that, try to loosen the grip on the gimbal. Specially with longer shots, you tend to tighten the grip because the fatique kicks in or you anticipate on certain corners or steps. This can often lead to rolling horizon.

A properly balanced rig will keep its position fairly well, the movements you see are mostly man-made.

 

Loosening the arm tension will drop the rig down, most of the time you tend to grab more firmly then to get the right height again. This is bad.

 

More bottom heavy can work, but remember that the moment it goes off-level, it tends to swing more and it takes more effort to stop it too.

Thats why many operators prefer near balance or fully equal balance. (more than 4-8 seconds drop-down)

Thanx for the reply Rob

Am gonna take a closer look at those things. Actually the rigg didnt fell misplaced. I can let go of it and it just fly infront of me.

But my walk is something that I really have to look into.

Actually GOOFY was another thing that I was wondering about.??

How can you be sure that you are regular or goofy.? I have doing it regular since the workshop. Beacuse they said that the left hand was moore gentle to the post. While the right strong hand booms up.

My girlfriend did a test with me pointing out what foot I often use. She was behind me, suddenly she pushed me forward to see what foot I reacted with. The Left. And also when I move around I tend to start with the left.

When I play hockey am goofy, also when I snowboard am goofy. Should I be goofy when I do steadicam to.????

Greetings from

i found this topic i started a long time ago.

 

i just wanted to thank you all for your answers!!!

 

 

On this sunday i do my 5th "church-live-show" (maybee i will get holy this way :lol: ) first time on 16:9 with an Ikegami HK-399 and wireless.

 

 

thanks again all for your help! you are very great.

 

greets michael

Hello everybody

I have a couple of question about a thing that I have notice. I have read for about 2 hours on he forum looking for answers. Find a couple. But I still wanna ask.

I did a shot like walking the line.

The shot was filmed in a church. The shot was a 60 m fast walk, up 2 steps, stopping in a lock off mid shot of a couple getting married with the priest in the middle.. The lock of went really well.

The big problem was the walk to the altar. The start was oki but in the middle of the walk I saw that the rigg was moving left to wright. And since I had to to frame the couple 60 m infront of me it became really hard to keep the rigg still. It felt like the cross in the frame was all over the.

What should I look att in my monitor. The cross or the horizont.??

I tested different options.

- Like letting the tension of the arm

- Making the rigg moore bottom heavy

But with the same result.. I have a pain about 10 cm under my hip bone. Like I puted to much tension on that side.

Does It have to do with my walk maybe.? I dont walk totally straight ahead. Moore the opposite way.

I now I have a lot of question. Hope you can reply a few.

Greeting from a newbee.

Hello everybody.

I would like to now the different carrying weights beetween this arms. The highest and lowest weight of the:

- Pro Arm

- 3 A arm

- G-50 arm

- Master arm

And also the different beetwen the

- Silver Spring

- Gold spring ..and of course the the carrying weight of them to.

Greetings

Hi there Nestor...

 

God to hear that you are out there working after the workshop.

The rentalhouse you are talking about has an EFP rig as well! There is an old J-bracket in that kit...you can probably borrow that one!

 

Give me a call otherwise...

 

Sebastian Jewell

Hello Sebastian

Nice of you to reply on my questions. Fortunetly I did the job earlyer and everything went just great.

But now am totally aware of what the F bracket does. Thanx everyone else

Actually I did try the F bracket from the EFP. But it wasent the same size.

But I told the rentalhouse about the bracket and they have orded it for me to the next time. Really nice of them.

Sheers.

Am just a happy camper right now

Hello again

Thanx soo much for your detailed information. Actually, we did go by all the things about low mode. But when your new, you try to learn so much of everything, that some information got loss in the process. And an other thing is that when your new to the game sometimes its hard to ask for future problems. I guess thats what the forum is for.

Lucky I found this amazing forum were I can get help from nice people as all of you.

Today I was on the rental house in stockholm and tested everything for the 2 next jobs. Am gonna fly with the Aaton. XTR. I just read about it on another post here on the forum.

Thanx again

Great regards

Nestor Salazar

Sorry about my missspeled english. Am not that use to type on it. Hope you still understand me

Hello everyone

I have a question about a job am gonna do in 2 weeks. Sadly I dont own a rigg. So am depending on the filmrental houses equipment.

The job am gonna do is mostly low mode. So I went to the rentalhouse to check out the gear since i never tried this one before, and actually I havent done low mode since the workshop. Ive noticed that the gear didnt have any F bracket.

My questions are!

- Is it possible to operate in low mode without the F bracket.?

- What are the different with/without.?

If thats the case. Were can I buy one.

The gear is

-Mk-v evolution sled

-III A arm

-Vest

Hope somebody can help me.

Best regards

Hello everybody

I was thinking and wondering what kind of cameras, riggs and format these past videos was filmed on.

Am gonna contribute whit some videos that I have been involved in. These are videos all the way from Sweden. So the vocals are in swedish.

The first one was was my first 35mm job. A group called Ison & Fille

- thabomalmen.se

The second one is Swedish Idol winner 2004 Daniel Lindström. This video was shot in 16mm

- www.youtube.com

Cheeers.

Just wanted to post a quick picture from a gig I'm working on at the moment.

 

http://img61.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arstairsei4.jpg

 

 

One of the AC's took it, I think it speaks for itself!

 

Best Chris

Hello there.

I keep looking at these beautiful peace. Imagening if I had it in my hands right now... Woow its really great.. Soon am gonna try to visit Howard in manchester to take a closer look at it. I have to..!!!

How is it to manuvere it. ..?? do you need to be a very experience operator..??

Cheers

Hello everyone.

Am looking for information about the G 50 arm. Such as price, sweet spots were I can get it ec.. ??????

It would be really nice if you could help me.

I have a different question.. What does MK-V stand for.. ????

Best Regards

Nestor Salazar Manriquez