--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > great find-- i recognized awhile ago while shooting video that > it is very hard to duplicate all of the dolly effects used in > professional cinematography. these guys came up with a cool > solution.
Just as a couple of hints, Dawn, For dollies, a borrowed supermarket shopping cart works fine. And if you're serious about wanting to create non-shaky video, you can "grow your own" Steadicam for under $20. All it takes is a harness to attach the thing to your body (an old kid's backpack will do, worn backwards), a ball joint that allows free movement to anything attached to it in all directions (which I found at an electronics/hardware junk store for $5), and then solder/weld two pieces of metal to opposite ends of the ball joint. On one end, you weld an old tripod adapter to hold the camera. On the other, you place enough weight to exactly equal the weight of the camera. Voila. Instant Steadicam. As you move around, the ball joint allows the balancing weight to keep the camera in a steady, upright position, without "camera shake." Or, since you're a gal and possibly don't have access to tools and all that brilliant (and humble) Do It Yourself knowledge that guys are born with :-), you can just buy one of these things pre-made from a catalog. Steadicams rock, especially when you figure out how simple the mechanisms are that make it work (Duh...gravity and inertia), and wonder at how long it took for someone to figure it out and turn it into an Oscar-winning invention. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@> > wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrsZuD4w0c > > > > (under 5 minutes)
