Camera Motion Research's Blackbird Camera Stabilizer is a bigger version of a Merlin type steadicam/Glidecam HD. The longer arm should give better stabilization (higher ratios or moment of inertia to weight in all axis) and they claim only weighs a half a pound more.
But the area to control pan and tilt is just as small. There isn't a pole to get a hand on, just a tiny place to pinch with your thumb and forefinger.
Thanks to my buddy/actor/director/filmmaker d. david morin for this action photo of the Blackbird being used with a 5D on a doco in Kenya. d. david used to live in DTLA (that's DownTown LA for you non SoCal people) and is the only filmmaker in Nairobi with two 5D's and a 60D.
The Blackbird is only $485 bucks but then again you can build your own $15 Steadicam.
http://www.camotionllc.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4dTGk-G6g&feature=related
But the area to control pan and tilt is just as small. There isn't a pole to get a hand on, just a tiny place to pinch with your thumb and forefinger.
Thanks to my buddy/actor/director/filmmaker d. david morin for this action photo of the Blackbird being used with a 5D on a doco in Kenya. d. david used to live in DTLA (that's DownTown LA for you non SoCal people) and is the only filmmaker in Nairobi with two 5D's and a 60D.
The Blackbird is only $485 bucks but then again you can build your own $15 Steadicam.
http://www.camotionllc.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4dTGk-G6g&feature=related
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