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Volt and Rig balance


Cedric Autier

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Hello Everyone,

 

I am wondering what are your experiences with the Volt with a rig going off balance, typically using lenses with a big glass displacement, film inside the mags etc...

In the case of film, do you do a quick rebalance between each take even on short takes? And would this be a big concern on long takes?

 

Thank you

 

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The Volt can handle a great deal of imbalance - it handles wind loads very well.

For the big glass shifts, you'll have to crank up the tilt strength.

Of course, a constant correction of imbalance will require more power - hence the typical work to get the sled in neutral balance for most shooting - less work for the motors to do.

I think there are some videos on FlySteadicam of the Volt with wind and maybe one with an IMAX (??).

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Thanks for the FlySteadicam mention Jerry. The test we made with the Imax was with a Volt on an Ultra 2 and the Volt was able to negate approximately 80% of the side to side offset caused by the film transfer. So that meant that the sled could be balanced so that the operator needed a little bit of side hand pressure at the beginning of the mag and a little bit at the end with the Volt doing all the compensation for the most part. 

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