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Leigh, Have you completed the production model that you where working on?

 

Hi Charles,

 

Thanks for asking.

 

No, I am still in design stage.

 

Regards

Leigh

 

Are you building this as handheld model or a full rig. What is the capacity of the arm, price range, etc...

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Leigh, Have you completed the production model that you where working on?

 

Hi Charles,

 

Thanks for asking.

 

No, I am still in design stage.

 

Regards

Leigh

 

Are you building this as handheld model or a full rig. What is the capacity of the arm, price range, etc...

 

Hi Charles,

 

It is a full rig front mount/back mount.

 

The capacity of the arm is from 500g to 20kg or more if the operatore can hold.

 

I don't know about the price and I will try to make it reasonable.

 

Here is my exercise video

 

divx format

file size around 50mb

My exercise video

 

The camera I use is JVC GY-DV5000 with Fujinon s20x6.4brm-sd lense. The whole camera weighs around 7kg. The whole rigs including camera weighs around 15kg.

 

I started to touch video camera since this April, I am still inexperienced.

 

Regards

Leigh

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Just a little opinion on the flyer or similar rigs (if any come close).

 

I see the flyer being very useful for training applications.

When I did a workshop, the flyer was the rig i could really experiment with. I didn't have to worry about putting it down so much, even with a dsr570 on.

For a novice opp like me the ultra's were really heavy, and i felt limited in what i could try with them. However the flyer let me run all over the bbc training center and into places i realy shouldn't have been.

I belive that rig realy got me hooked on steadicaming, I could try all the things i wanted to try and i wasn't restricted by time or ability. I might add that the flyer was harder to "fly" well than the bigger rigs !

When I went back on the ultra's I had so much more confidence in what i was doing, and found them a lot easyer to operate. Now don't get me wrong, I aim to work at the highest level possible with steadicam, and to get a rig that will enable me to work at any level. But for training and experimenting, good low-end rigs realy do have their place, and it aint a bad one.

In my time as a camera operater, i have found that only a very small percentage people have the ability and will power to become true camera opps. It comes from within and steadicam is just an extention of this. The more poeple that get involved with steadicam early on, the better it could be for the industry. Many will fall but the ones that remain will progress beyond expectation.

 

At the start of this topic their was a little miss communication and what not. From reading this forum i have noticed quite a few accurences like that. People seem really jumpy on here sometimes, is their something i don't know about ?

Ask a silly question ehy.

I really look up to the people on here and it saddens me a little to read the things i do. After all we are all the same kinda people, "camera people" am i wrong ?

 

 

Cheers for reading my rant.

matt

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Greetings all,

 

As a bargain priced stabilizer there is the magiqcam to consider http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...ssPageName=WDVW

 

As a relatively inexpensive product, I think just about anyone can afford one (mine is in the mail :D ) not 100% sure on performance yet, but will update after it arrives.

 

Now if $1650 isn't a bargain price in this industry, then I think we're expecting a little too much! Just my thoughts... now back to the arguing :P

 

michael.

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The camera I use is JVC GY-DV5000 with Fujinon s20x6.4brm-sd lense. The whole camera weighs around 7kg. The whole rigs including camera weighs around 15kg.

 

So I'm guessing the max camera weight will be somewhere around 12kg? <_<

 

the max camera weight can reach above 20kg, the arm support weight can be 40kg or more. :D The capacity is not restricted by the arm anymore, it is restricted by the camera operator. <_<

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save your money.....

 

look:

 

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

 

 

if charles is the Charles from the Homebuiltstabilizer site you guys might want to check out his site... some very innovative people there for those not working

entirely in the industry...

 

i am slowly putting together a rig, and using mostly true steadicam parts because

you cant really beat the quality,,,,, and the time it takes to machine the parts- even if you had all the machine tools- is a very great demand...

 

steadicam uses Ti on many parts and skilled machinists....

i will be making whatever i cant afford for now, but eventually buy the "real" thing...

 

 

HOWEVER, opening up your ideas as to what is actually possible and seeing some of the samples of what has been homebuilt might enable those of you here

with lots of "on the set" experience to add to the designs that are helping innovate

the entire field...

 

 

a handful of creative operators have provided most of the innovations to date.

 

 

i guess what im saying is that the brackets and widgets section of this site is similar to what these guys are building for themselves... worth taking a look at...

 

(i think this was mentioned in the archives a couple of years ago....)

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Thanks for the vote of confidence David. I'm honored that you look at the site some times. My carbon post and machined to high tolerance gimbal, which can handle weights up to 40 + kgs, is completed. Just waiting for it to arrive. My arm is still att the machinist and hopefully that will be completed soon.

 

There are alot of talented people over at HBS forum and thier iideas are invaluble. I've written several books about on HBS subject and gathered some info that might help beginners. Here is the link, only if you guys are interested in just taking a look: HBS Books

 

On the whole I love the steadicam system and it's high level of quality but also like the notion that every equipment can be improved upon wheather professionally or homebuilt. :)

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