Hi everybody,
in Cinek you could test brand new EASYSTEADY PRO SERIES ARM.
http://www.easysteady.com/easysteady/Arm_pro_2.html
The cost will be about 10.000€, with 6 cannisters, 4 soft and 2 hard. You can bring up to 28kg with standard kit., or up to 34kg with 2 more hard cannisters.
It is amazing, try for believe. Absolutely no friction and only 1,5kg for boom up and down (boom is 70cm - the longhest). In Italy many steady operators sold their arm for easysteady new brand, one of this man is a member of this forum, he bought a G50 and now he want sold it for easysteady new pro series arm.
It can work very well also with lightweight sled configuration like DSLR cam or small camcorder.
Same quality of PRO at half price!!!
Find easteady at Cinec expò or contact me.
For my experience PRO is the best, i don't like G70 because there is a lot of friction in the arm system, G70 doesn't work well in slow movement like micro-walk... in this case you will see the walk in shoot images, only good way is the quite light weight!! Spring Arm is hold "isoelastic" style, it is hard for boom up and down... Sachtler is the same, Sachtler has very good construction quality, in Spring arm there is some jokes in the meccanical part. PRO is perfect, work perfectly in all condition, no friction, smooth well in fast both slow movements and it can work well in light weight sled config.. but it is really expensive.
After easyteady test you give us all impressions, good or no good, or what you will like or not, for us is very important your feedback.
Cheers, Riccardo.