Make-your-own steadycam, now with a gimbal
The $14 steadycam is the easiest way to conquer handheld camcorder jitters, adding stabilizing counterweights and handles. But if you want something more like a real Steadicam, here's a how-to guide to making a ghetto gimbal mount, another key to smooth movements. The Steadicam people make a mini handheld rig just like it, but it's $800, and off-brand models still cost upwards of $400. [YB2 Normal]
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fataltourist
#1 – 7:37 AM July 13, 2009
Very smooth.
I built the $14 steadicam. Kills your arm after 1 or 2 takes.
Rob Beschizza
#2 – 7:48 AM July 13, 2009
P.S. I know what you're thinking, but the gimbals you can buy at Home Depot for $10 are too stiff -- they're for ceiling light fixtures and the like..
scriptedfate
#3 – 9:45 AM July 13, 2009
Wasn't one of the big things of the original $14 steadycam that it specifically didn't have a gimbal? Mind you, I guess if it just has a couple of degrees of play in the planes, it's really just a damper system rather than anything else...
Still, it looks like it doesn't do vertical panning all that well.
SamSam
#4 – 12:28 PM July 13, 2009
The video looks great. Funny that ability to make great DIY tools and take good video doesn't go with good taste in music... :)
nano
#5 – 4:53 PM July 14, 2009
what about using the skate bearings for the gimbal
axis as well? (where the bolts pass thru the pvc
pipe)
BMan
#6 – 7:18 AM July 16, 2009
Man those are some dufey looking kids. Where were they hatched?
GuyWithDogs
#7 – 9:32 AM July 16, 2009
Could you post a picture of the completed rig, and maybe one of you holding it? I don't get where you are actually holding the camera - by the gimbal only? This looks seriously cool, and almost easy enough for me to attempt, but I'm not sure about what the whole thing looks like completed.
Anonymous Anonymous
#8 – 10:31 AM July 16, 2009
Very smooth. But honestly, what impressed me most was the house. Wow, nice house.
Reality Show Fo' sho
#9 – 7:10 PM August 8, 2009
Where were they hatched
In the nest beside yours BMAN.