Dave Bittner Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 http://www.dynashoot.com/ A very strange, worst-of-all-worlds contraption. Ill-fitting vest, stiff arm, no gimbal. It was great seeing everyone at NAB this year! Great fun at Hard Rock once again. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Alec Jarnagin SOC Posted April 20, 2007 Moderators Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 That just looks painful. Great seeing you too David. Sorry to run on you when we bumped into each other the next day, but the phone call was someone I had been playing phone tag with all week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dan Coplan Posted April 21, 2007 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Uh...is that a real product or is that a joke website? Retarded contraption + inbred-looking model + ugliest camera ever designed = spoof? Can't be real... Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bittner Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Uh...is that a real product or is that a joke website? Retarded contraption + inbred-looking model + ugliest camera ever designed = spoof? Can't be real... Dan No, It's real. Painfully real. They had a booth and everything, a bunch of people manhandling these things, proudly displaying the stiff arms (think rusty provid, dragged around in the sand, sprayed with contact cement, and you'd be close...) From what I can tell, this gadget will serve to amplify the operators movements by extending them out on a large lever arm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmarek Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 'designed to be used with a medium camera' ... uhh...what's a 'medium' camera? i don't see people spending $1300 to mount their $2000 consumer cam onto this to do....what does this thing :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJ Sadler Posted April 25, 2007 Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 But look at how much fun this guy is having... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jerry Holway Posted April 25, 2007 Premium Members Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 A similar sort of ridiculous rig showed up (barged into!) a Steadicam booth at a recent trade show (can't remember which one or which rig it was). So I asked the guys (there were two of them!) how they felt demonstrating such junk that did not work. They were in our booth, so I felt I could be a little rude... The response was that it was cheap. So I asked how much they felt I should spend on something that did not work. I suggested a YEN was too much... ah well Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillermo Parra Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 I don?t see anywhere on the Dynashoot page that claims it is a stabilizer, so please take a second look to the product. This is a SUPPORT to carry small camcorders (2.3 to 5.2 Lb), use it like a regular tripod (did you see the video head?); because their gas springs and bearings it can move quickly and smooth from one position to a different position. With this support you can move your camcorder from your eye level to a high level with no effort and stay there for a long period of time, without the normal fatigue to your arms. Dynashoot have more benefits: you can wear the complete system for 2, 3, 4 or more hours with no ?PAINFUL? reactions (try to do this with a stabilizer!), Dynashoot weight less than 10 pounds. If you shoot video with the Dynashoot support you must take care with the movements of the camera as you do it with your own arms. This new tool it?s not intended to substitute a stabilizer or a tripod, so the users are not steadicam operators. For some people the Dynashoot arm maybe ?looks? like a stabilizer, but they differ in the objective for which they were designed. Instead of several springs and pulleys: gas springs. Instead of gimbal: video head. Instead of counterweights: nothing to adjust. Instead of ?float? the camera: multiposition the camera. The market for this new tool is camera operators shooting video in productions like events, documentaries, news, reality, concerts, adult movies, and many others situations. Attendees at NAB see many benefits to their own particular needs, and start to use it on different productions around the globe. The Dynashoot ?strange? name comes from the words dynamic and shooting; Patent Pending in the USA, and a second model for medium size camcorders (up to 10 lb) will be available in the next weeks. One final comment: Tiffen just releases a new stabilizer for $4,000 for the ?$2000? range cameras; a great product and obviously different than ours, but illustrates very well that there are professional camera operators in many budget and production levels who needs tools for a better shooting. I?m one of the inventors, a full time camera operator, and yes, I have fun using the Dynashoot. Thanks for all your comments. Guillermo Parra Dynashoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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