Price: $54 shipped

http://dx.com/p/cs-100-handy-stabilizer-for-digital-cameras-cell-phones-black-204352

• Material: Aluminum + composite plastic
• Max height: 40cm (with tripod)
• Max load bearing: 3kg

Not recommended.

http://www.varizoom.com/product-p/stealthy.htm

I am most interested in it for its stabilizer capabilities, as well as for its versatility, but am wondering how well it will fly. Has anyone tried the VariZoom Flowpod before? It is an earlier monopod/stabilizer of theirs and am guessing the stabilizing ability would be similar to both products. In any case, the feature set of the Stealthy looks unlike anything I've seen out there.

• Early prototype based on 2-axis gimbal.
• Electronics: Aleksey Moskalenko
• Hardware: Flite.pl and FunFlyCam.com
• All videos are raw directly from GH2&GP3.
• Pitch and roll axis controlled with radio by second operator usign remote live view. Pan axis will be added soon.
• Stay tuned for 3-axial final version!

Looks like the parts are based from the resource http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1815204

There a lady wearing EVF glasses controlling the camera tracking.... Love it.... Movi move over....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Filmcity-SL-5-Camera-Slider-With-Camera-Mount-Platform-For-Canon-Panasonic-Nikon-/370793763267?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item565507d1c3

Description:

The Rhino Slider equips you to film 48" of cinematic glory. The system is based on 6 rollers filled with 12 sealed ball bearings mounted to a hard-anodized aluminum carriage. There is so little friction you can use gravity to move your shots. Locking all-terrain legs come standard with non-marking custom molded rubber feet that will grip to anything.

Features*:

• 2 mounting screws are included: Standard 3/8-16 for your ball or fluid head and a 1/4-20 for mounting your iPhone or GoPro

• Dual locking friction brakes (not shown) keep the carriage in place when you're moving from shot to shot or traveling

• The entire system dissassembles with only 4 tool-less fasteners

• 3/8-16 & 1/4-20 threads on both ends of the slider for mounting to tripods

• 3/8-16 thread on both ends for vertical mounting

• Replaceable feet let you use suction cups to mount to a car or window

Specs:

• 48" Stainless Steel Tubular rails

• 6061-T6 Hard Anodized (Type III) Aluminum

• Weight: ~5lbs

• Stainless Steel hardware

• $400

*This is for the base model. There are also carbon fiber "Pro" versions available for a higher price.

I need to find information on about what motor can work 0.1 to 10 rpm (or more) with at least 7.2V (Sony npf battery) and to be strong in order to rotate or move at least 5-10 weight ... This should be with PWM controllable speed motor ... Found some speed controllers on eBay but don't know what motor to choose. Any suggestion is welcome ...

High quality, very light and very portable motorized slider.

• Total length - 480mm
• Sliding distance - 41 cm
• Sliding platform hold up to 5 kg
• Powered by 4x AA batteries
• Suitable for smartphones and HDSLRs
• Adjustable speed, stop, forward and backward motion
• Weight - 1 kg
• Speed - from 40 seconds to max 6 minutes from one side to the other (oriented to timelipses mostly)

Mini friend

• Total length - 890mm
• Sliding distance - 82 cm
• Sliding platform hold up to 3 kg
• Powered by 4x AA batteries
• Suitable for smartphones and HDSLRs
• Adjustable speed, stop, forward and backward motion
• Weight - 2 kg
• Speed - from 80 seconds to max 12 minutes from one side to the other (oriented to timelipses mostly)

From $689, http://www.ebay.com/itm/WONDLAN-Wired-Electronic-Controlled-Motorized-Slider-Dolly-Timelapse-System-/330858109868

Available at:

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5505/special-deals-jibs-cranes-dollies-sliders#Item_3

Send me personal message (on the left column at http://www.personal-view.com/talks/profile/1/Vitaliy_Kiselev ) if you want to purchase any item here.

Carbon Portable Jib, Crane

Specifications:

• Arm length - 200cm
• Packaged length - 80cm
• Minimum radius - 75cm
• Maximum radius - 120cm
• Max operational height - 290cm
• Min operational height - 20cm
• Counterweight ratio - 1:2
• Max load - 4kg
• Net weight of jib - 1.8kg
• Tripod and head must be designed for 5-8kg load

See Water Weight option below!

Price: $295
Shipping: Includes fast free shipping for US/Canada/UK/Australia&NZ/Western Europe. Ask for any other regions.
Limits: Very small amount, last while in stock.

Carbon Pro Portable Jib, Crane

Specifications:

• Arm length - 235cm
• Packaged length - 85cm
• Minimum radius - 55cm
• Maximum radius - 140cm
• Max operational height - 310cm
• Min operational height - 20cm
• Counterweight ratio - 1:2
• Max load - 3.5kg
• Net weight of jib - 1.55kg
• Tripod and head must be designed for 5-8kg load

See Water Weight option below!

Price: $409
Shipping: Includes fast free shipping for US/Canada/UK/Australia&NZ/Western Europe. Ask for any other regions.
Limits: Very small amount, last while in stock.

Water Weight for portable cranes

Specifications:

• 25mm hole diameter
• Very portable and light contrary to metal weights

Available only as option to cranes above.

Price: $33
Limits: Very small amount, last while in stock.

FLYCAM NANO - £85

Initial setup for the Nano took around 3-4 hours, and was not a plesant experience. This would have been exaggerated by my lack of experience at the time with stabilisers but i had researched the concept and watched numerous videos on how to tune one and yet i was amazed at how difficult it was. Having spent nearly 6 months with the Nano, i found myself never truly able to get a perfectly tuned setup. It would work sometimes and then it would be placed on a table ready for the next shot and when picked up again it was out of balance. This would take some 2-3 minutes to sort out and sometimes I missed vital shots and had to abandon and go for the monopod. I must admit that laterally i ended up resorting to a rather crude method of balancing it, due to frustration, and this consisted of banging it until it was back in balance. I realise that this method ultimately knackered the whole unit but i was initially very patient with it.

• PROS - Lightweight & Cheap
• CONS - Difficult to adjust, not well built, weights at the bottom over complicate things (combined with little movement in the main shaft available)

WONDLAN MINI STABILIZER - £205

Of course, this lead to me purchasing a new stabiliser which after reading a lot of good things about Wondlan led me to purchase their Mini Stabiliser for just over £200. Being cheaper than the carbon model and smaller i thought this would be ideal for the GH3 + 12-35 lens. I am not joking when I say this, but from open box to flying... less than 5 minutes. I was amazed at how easily the unit could be adjusted and yet how stiff everything felt on it. I can literally run as fast as I can with this thing, place it down, pick it up and nothing changes. I have combined it with a Calumnet quick mount adaptor (manfrotto copy) and this works a treat at allowing me to jump from monopod to stabilizer and at the very most I have to do about 10-15 seconds of tweaks to get it perfect. The knobs at the side allow micro millimeter precision and with the scale at the side does not lead to subjective changes. What a fantastic bit of kit and it has re-ignited my enthusiasm for stabiliser shots once again!

• PROS - Super easy to adjust, well made, looks fantastic (more professional IMO), massive amount of adjustment in both gimbal, shaft height and plate
• CONS - Twice the price, bag is not padded (i'm scraping the barrel here)

I hope this helps with someone looking to take the leap into the world of stabilizers and not sure where to start.

I've been building up my technical capabilities lately. So now I'm thinking about Glidetrack HD (http://www.glidetrack.com/products/hd-range/glidetrack-hybrid-slider.html?___store=en_gb&___from_store=en_eu) . It's quite expensive so any opinions are welcome. What do You think about this particular model or any other alternatives? I like it because it looks like it could handle Sony Ex3 and vertical position is a great option.

There wasn't an instruction manual so I've had a bit of a play and run about outside with it.

I think that it has to be set as low as possible because the GH2 is so light. At the moment I can still do a better job by hand. I did have a go at running for which I got a better result -- but not like the smoothness in the demo videos.

Could anyone point me in the right direction --- Thanks ..

Available on our deals on Mondays, as usual.

Thanks

Max

And it's something that most of us already have access to!

If anyone has one and they've fixed or minimized the problems, I'd be very interested to hear what your solution was.

Thanks!

A 1.2m roller style slider for just under $200 plus shipping. Comes with both standard and bowl mount which is a definite time saver. Not sure what kind of bearings are used though I'm sure it would be much smoother than friction based sliders such as the Igus etc.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-2m-42-3-inch-Video-Slider-Dolly-Track-Camera-Camcorder-Dolly-Car-Tracking-/110927672681

I'm happy with the tripod and the jib, but perhaps on the verge of sending the head back.

It turns out that these things are not as easy to operate as I thought, it took more than an hour just to get acceptable footage. Anyway I realised that you need a bunch of other little bits to make it work, so I've set about cutting up bits of carbon fibre and making plugs for LiPo batteries and the like.

Here's first efforts:

Andy