Video tip - check out this $14 homemade steadicam!
 

Check out this cheap 'n easy homemade steadycam.

$14 bucks in material and 20 mins. to build.

I have one of those in my closet that I don't use.. want it?

Edit: One of the ones in the link, I built it when I found that a few years back.

still cool stuff

I love mine, made it out of a bunch of old mic stands I had laying around works fucking awesome, but planning on buying a merlin soon.

http://www.steadicam.com/handheldmerlin.html

check out the demo of it in action. Thing is brilliant.

http://www.tiffen.com/userimages/ste...n_demo_med.mov

Awesome! I just sent an email to my local dealer for price info. :thumbsup

Roughly 800 clams USD

I want a Merlin too, and like everyone else in the thread...I built the one in the tutorial too.

I think it cost me $19 for the parts to build 2 of 'em. I really did make some difference.

still cool stuff

Im going to attempt to make one out of gray pvc threaded pipe this weekend. I want something I can unscrew and pack in my suitcase. Mine I made was out of mic stands I had with a 8" mic stand base on the bottom and a folding arm on the side with the head off a small tripod. Its very versatile, and can be folded and adjusted for many different angles. Its a bit to tall to take around in public though, or try and get in my suitcase without them thinking Im doing something odd lol.

Our canon hv-10s are way too small to not have a steadicam or tripod. Handheld you would have to be a robot to keep it smooth. I want to walk around with it in PHX and do some interviews and dont want jiggily shots lol.

nice offer

What do you use for a gimble?

I've got the newest Sony model HDV cam, and that's probably not much bigger than yours. Same deal basically, I shake even when I'm 100% still.

Let me know how it goes with the PVC. The steel piping is a bit heavy, and I don't know how much the weight figures into it.

There is nothing about that home made gaget that makes it a steadicam .. you'd have the same affect as a mono pod ...

A steadicam system is pretty simple in design .. seprate The centers of Gravity and allow for your own seprate xy axis.

I sold and operated Glidecam and steadicam in the 90's. From a V20 to an Ultra.

One of my clients has one .. Never used ...still in it's box. If you're serious I could find out how much he wants

I didn't think that they were available yet. If you could, please find out exactly what model it is and how much he wants. I'm interested.

This one in the tutorial doesn't work fundamentally like your normal steadi, but for someone who's cheap or the average person who wants to steady up their shots...it DOES do a decent job doing what he claims it will do with regards to moving shots. I was impressed with the $20 and two that I was able to build. I gave one to my brother in law to play around with and he's impressed as well. It is by no means a real too for the professional.

Gimbal Assembly

http://www.steadicam.com/images/cont...List_11807.pdf

Sure thing ... Tell ya the truth I'm not sure which model ...

My First camera Stabilizer
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...oto/getfit.jpg

You are right, they use the Steadicam name as a generic catch all in this case. You can essentially get similar results even with a small tripod that you keep the legs closed on. What the 14.00 deally does basically is increase the weight of the camera. Its harder to make a bowling ball shake, than it is to make a pencil shake. With the smaller cameras they do make a heck of a difference. The first shoot we did with our HV-10 the video looked like I was a parkinsons victim with a crack addiction lol. Ok not that bad, but compared to how the shoots come out with the "steadicam" I made its night and day.

Oh and find out how much he wants for that Merlin. From the videos I saw of it, its pretty awesome.