Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted March 9, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Check it out. I wonder how much and how loud it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Michael Suchar Posted March 9, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Nice. But a mere toy comopared to Raytheon's exoskeleton. http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technolog...08_exoskeleton/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Joshua Harrison Posted March 9, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Nice. But a mere toy comopared to Raytheon's exoskeleton. http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technolog...08_exoskeleton/ Mabye, but I can see the lockheed one actually fitting into our world somehow while the ratheon one is far too much for any steadicam application. josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Grammatikos Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Eric .. very interesting ,i think is the future on steadicam (3-5 years ),i think that the unit is not noissy (soldiers must be quiet) but how much it cost and how flexible is?the next 10 years i believe exosceleton it will replace the steadicam vest or hardness(price it will be the only problem) .Michael forget Raytheon (too noisy ,too big ,too power hungry and need a lot of work yet ,plus 2 people and an ob van for carry it,hulk look almost ready !!if we can adjust a socket block on it and someone can try to operate it !!!! Maybe Garett and Tiffen must have a look on it !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted March 9, 2009 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Nice. But a mere toy comopared to Raytheon's exoskeleton. http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technolog...08_exoskeleton/ Yeah but the Lockheed one is small and lite weight, self powered and quiet. the Raytheon one is not. I'll take the Lockheed one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Brant S. Fagan SOC Posted March 9, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Gents-- Sign me up for one of the Lockheed sets! Remember the seemingly ancient US Army tests of the Steadicam as a platform for the M60? Once the user was knocked to the ground he was in fact "turtled" under the gear and the weapon. I like the medium tech version of the Lockheed system and the fact that it comes off and apart quickly and stores compactly. Check the Raytheon video and notice the long tech-wrap covered umbilical snake that must connect to the DIT tent and a bank of Genesis batteries. Just what we all need, another honking cable run! Even if you can't feel it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Alec Jarnagin SOC Posted March 10, 2009 Moderators Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Ah, yeah, that could be pretty useful. As battery technology continues to take off, it will only help the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Amando Crespo Posted March 10, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Hi friends!. I´m not against the new technological advances applied to our profession. My mind is openning for everything. It will be an advance to have a gadget like an exo-HELP to do more confortable our work. About links you posted, I think that new tech.. Are in it first steeps... Growing, of course, but not for our steadicam ops generation. May be for 10-15 years on the future. I´d like to be here to see it, but not like active operator.... At this time, I´ll be 55-60 years old....Uf!....All my time for Anita and relax.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Alfeo Dixon SOC Posted March 10, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Mabye, but I can see the lockheed one actually fitting into our world somehow while the ratheon one is far too much for any steadicam application. josh Funny how Lockheed gets the approval while the gentalman in this tread: You have to see this .., This is Steady Bionicle man got ripped on by many ops. Looks along the same principles but with highly paid engineers in a R&D lab and not the garage or basement of a lone forward thinking operator. I wonder if those that laughed will become the butt of the joke when they include on one these in the kit? -Alfeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Joshua Harrison Posted March 10, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Mabye, but I can see the lockheed one actually fitting into our world somehow while the ratheon one is far too much for any steadicam application. josh Funny how Lockheed gets the approval while the gentalman in this tread: You have to see this .., This is Steady Bionicle man got ripped on by many ops. Looks along the same principles but with highly paid engineers in a R&D lab and not the garage or basement of a lone forward thinking operator. I wonder if those that laughed will become the butt of the joke when they include on one these in the kit? -Alfeo I'm not sure why I'm being quoted here I don't remember laughing at that guy. But on that topic it's a good thing we didn't have youtube when Garrett was inventing because perhaps some of his earlier designs would have been posted and laughed at. Instead we have an incredible device that still works pretty much the same way for decades. Back on topic, I'm pretty sure that we won't see this kind of tech in our world anytime due to the fact that this is in the military world and probably costs a (pro) arm and a leg. (ha!) Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Alfeo Dixon SOC Posted March 10, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 I'm not sure why I'm being quoted here I don't remember laughing at that guy. Nope, at least not on record. ;) Your response was of approval and just wanted to make that point, not to say you took a stab at the other guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin M. Andersen Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Endurance increase? yes. Physical strength improvement? yes. Does it make art by itself? no Makes me remember a long ago director friend (circa 1979) who dissed the steadicam saying "It won't make camera operators better camera operators." Still I wonder if this exoskeleton would have helped me work those 20 hour steadicam days chasing kids on a football field or rushing up a train aisle with an arribl in low mode. Maybe it could make me taller or have the hair regrow on my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Michael Suchar Posted March 11, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 I agree the lockheed unit is pretty cool. I just thought I throw something out for comparison. By the time I learn the art I'll be out of business if these things end up for sale to the public at a reasonable price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jess Haas SOC Posted March 11, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Still I wonder if this exoskeleton would have helped me work those 20 hour steadicam days chasing kids on a football field or rushing up a train aisle with an arribl in low mode. It might but then again an Arri 235 might be an even better choice. ~Jess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted March 11, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 BL's were never a "choice", Jess...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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