Zen Magnets Internal Steadicam

Manu4Vendetta

Awesome, stable and very smooth. The great mystery is that dont work the page where to buy.

Although he shared as make it.

Aria

@Manu4Vendetta, HA! that's pretty impressive! Hopefully he'll get his website together and be able to sell his product.

Manu4Vendetta

@Aria, I agree.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

This thing is dead on arrival. Such joints are NOT made for steadicams, work bad in real life.

Whole design is horrible DIY.

And all this is in the time of normal steadicams available at $70, and Merlin 2 at $300.

WTF?

Adam_Mercier

+1 Vitaly ,I used a 110€ one on a video clip shot on GH4 that gave superb results, I bet 70$ ones do a good job too.

fegato

Merlin 2 at $300? where?

Manu4Vendetta

My goal is a gimbal, but I would ruin my pocket, so I'm thinking between

http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-SteadyVid-Stabilizer-Camcorders-Improved/dp/B008UUPUPM/

http://www.amazon.com/IMAGE®-Handheld-Stabilizer-Digital-Camcorder/dp/B00NOMXTP4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1419109285&sr=8-2&keywords=steadicam+dslr

And save to buy a gimbal in the future.

goanna

The easy part of working with gimbal stabilisers is letting them do their thing in creating shake-free footage of wherever the camera is pointed at the start, such as in a simple track-shot.

The hard part is in pointing the camera at the subject; left, right or tilt, in the middle of a shot. In fact, gimbals are near impossible to do any real work with.

This guy's video shows nothing of the technique used to pan or tilt, yet the footage of his subjects shows extensive turning of the camera, consistent with what you get with high-end Steadicam operation. This, together with the inappropriate use of the word "Magnets" makes me smell a rat somewhere.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Merlin 2 at $300? where?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/839957-REG/Steadicam_MERLIN2_Merlin_2_Camera_Stabilizing.html

Now $399, but was on $300 sale (if you track our deals topic you can catch such things)

Vitaliy_Kiselev

My goal is a gimbal, but I would ruin my pocket, so I'm thinking between

Both are total crap, believe me.

Cheapest working stuff:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Cameras-Photo-/625/i.html?_from=R40&_sac=1&_nkw=S-40+carbon&_sop=15

Buy ones with blue handle.

Normal working stuff are Laing stabs

http://www.personal-view.com/deals/stabilizers-steadicams-gimbals/laing#laing-h3-mini-carbon-stabilizer

Manu4Vendetta

Thanks for the advice Vitaliy. ;-)

babypanda

sorry, not sure if this is off-topic, but just watched this vid and thought i'd share.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@babypanda

I think it is old thing.

Good suggestion - get proper, good steadicam. It is all such time waste otherwise.

MarcioK

@Vitaliy_Kiselev aboute the S40 Carbon from eBay: there are two models with blue handles, one with a slick handle and other with a textured handle (each one with vendors saying that is best than the other). Do you know which is the best one?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Do you know which is the best one?

You can try :-) Actual difference can be in gimbal only, and I doubt it is big.

Manu4Vendetta

@babypanda thanks, I have a riger spider (link below), these devices are very basic and absorb body movements, sometimes you can control the movement and you go fluid, sometimes not, except for a steady or gimbal the shake is inevitable.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AUKBV7G/ref=pe_385040_30332190_TE_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

trafficarte

I own and I'm still learning to use a sturdycam, a handmade Merlin clone made by a guy here in Italy. Not the fanciest of the bunch, but less tricky to use, IMHO. They also make a Movi clone, and some other things steady-like. http://www.sturdycam.com/sturdycam/

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