Interesting new rig

[AndreasKielb]

In the meantime I almost finished my stabilized remote head and made first tests. Now I need to add the third axis and a second bearing support and do some work on the steadicam jib arm. The third axis is going to use a gear motor until the 3 axis open source controller for brushless motors is available. Will post some raw material when I'm ready.

 

Edited April 27, 2013 by AndreasKielb

[James Davis]

Anyone seen the latest Movi video to go up:

 

Quite interesting....Apparently it was shot in single operator "Majestic" Mode

[Lawrence Karman]

I've been biting my tongue on this one and will only say a bit about it. It seems to me that as long as you want to shoot from crotch level, wide angle, with limited panning and tilting and a light camera, then this is a nifty tool. Otherwise it is certainly no replacement for Steadicam or many of the professional tools out there. These demo videos, especially Laflourette's, have shown me sub-par operating, framing, composition and lighting. Not very "Majestic" except for the Go-Pro crowd with $15,000 burning a hole in their pocket. I'm sure they will sell lots of them.

[Brad Hruboska]

Charles perhaps a little help form the gore link in this regard?

[AndreasKielb]

Charles perhaps a little help form the gore link in this regard?

 

Looking like a suitable device!

 

 

http://www.walterklassen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC01263.jpg

Edited May 1, 2013 by AndreasKielb

[Chris Poynton]

The Gorelink page from Walter Klassen:

http://www.walterklassen.com/home-page/equipment-2/handheld/gore-link/

 

Constantly amazed at how diverse and creative you guys have been over the years ... Movi will fit in well with this, no doubt.

[AndreasKielb]

I just heard, that the MoVi can't look down over 20 degrees without problems at the moment, though that may be just rumors. However, a well programmed IMU should be able to look straight down:

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Edited May 3, 2013 by AndreasKielb

[Sam Morgan Moore]

Here is 'majestic mode'

 

.. looks to have quite a delay.. as it has to -not knowing the difference between a wobble and an intentional move by the operator

 

Also some monitor angle issues - if he actually had the mon switeched on.. which of course may require cabling that may interfere with the gimbal

 

 

Edited May 4, 2013 by Sam Morgan Moore

[Markus Kuballa]

I find the drag very irritating. No whippans I guess

[Evrim KAYA]

So, what the majestic mode is actually panning/tilting the rig until you reach the end of range of the gimbal’s pan/tilt axis -which is very narrow- , then you continue to pan/tilt till you reach the desired camera angle.

 

That is not majestic!

 

That is trying to make-up for a design short-coming using an engineering loophole.

 

I find this gadget hilariously incomplete :lol:

[Alan Rencher]

I'm sure that eventually they will install hand controls on the Movi itself. That's the only way a single-operator mode will work.

[Bryant Swanstrom]

 

Finally a real long take from this thing. Lock offs not so hot when just hand holding the thing.

 

Still a cool device.

[Alan Rencher]

I think I would like to do a side-by-side: the same shot done handheld, Steadicam, Dolly, and Movi. That might be interesting.

[Dmitry Burenok]

Another sexy gizmo for big bucks. It is pretty cool and useful device but extremely overpriced and overestimated. Good marketing though :)

 

Some scepticism sum-up's :

 

1) It is not the first handheld stabilizer - Kenyon gyros could give you very good result. Just fraction of the cost. Heavy as hell, yeah, 10 minutes to spin:)

2) Very good quality UAV gimbal cost today around $1-2K with servos and brain and does pretty similar things, not as good, but close. And before this product appear on market will be plenty of competitors knock - off's, so hold on your bucks peeps :) Sure it will be much cheaper soon.

3) Thing can handle axis compensation but what about STEPS? Up and down? This was actually almost the main reason for Sir Garret Brown to create steadicam - get rid of footsteps junk on the camera with iso-elastic arm. MJOVIE (oh boy) can not compensate that - even sexy Laforet's promo has lot of recognizable footsteps, kinda lame thing in steadicam world, sure?

 

BTW here's some video I made with my rig,

and I'm not giving up on using it :) No stabilizing, of cause.

 

http://vimeo.com/66145810

Edited May 15, 2013 by Dmitry Burenok

[flemming laybourn]

Like Eric mentioned... post some serious shots.. im ( for one ) is curious as to how good the "cheap" rigs really are.. but thats impossible to see when you only show the classic "easy" shot ( wideangle, slowmo, no real sense of level...)

 

:-)

 

flemming