DIY stedicam?

Here's mine. Monitor was $89, everything else was probably $25. PVC, joints, hose clamps etc.

I've since extended the hood on the monitor to the sides as well.

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i recall i thread about diy steadicams sometime or other

and if i remember right the verdict was they were pretty bad compared to commercial ones

but some worked decent, maybe i can find the thread
 
Pretty pleased with the stability.

DIY Rig Test from Dallas Carnahan on Vimeo.Testing my DIY camera rig
 
that looked pretty solid

difficulty on making that setup on a scale of 1-10?

and i probably wouldnt add the monitor, just more money

and what lens did you use?
 
probably 4, the hardest part was lining up the threads for the mount so the camera faced the right way.(for the mount i drilled a hole through the pvc and put a 1/4" bolt with a bunch of nuts on it and then put a shitload of jb weld on there)

and lens was canon 10-22 f3.5 wide
 
I mean i'd seen some stuff that I kind of based it off, but i pretty much just walked around the hardware store and kicked it from my head.

And I love the lens, very sharp and at 10mm it gives a little but of distortion, but not quite fisheye.
 
other thread:https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/542065/

i made one based off of the gyro in this one:
http://www.highballblog.com/2010/04/build-glidecam-for-your-outdoor-clips.html

but i essentially completely redesigned both the gyro and rig because, well, i liked my ideas better.
here's a vid of the gyro and full set up. will try to get video soon. i'm thinking about making and selling these for other newschoolers for probably about $150, please let me know if there's interest (cheapest "real" glidecam is $400 i think). will make a vid soon of the footage, it's damn smooth is all i can say.

in case embed fails ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4KU85kbnE
 
two years old, worked well for what i was doing.

making a half gyro one in the future, use pvc though, the metal is too heavy.

 
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They are called stedicams. The basic principal is pretty much the same behind all of them, your camera sits on a stage with counterweights on the bottom while you hold the device with a handle attached to a gimbal so that the movement from your hand and body does not transfer over to the camera. There are tons and tons of different DIY versions out there that rage from $15-60 bucks. But none of them can beat the manufactured ones like glidecam. They can be quite pricy but look around because there are literally hundreds of different brands. For example, a glidecam 1000 HD is around 300-400 bucks. A flycam is practically the same thing (just not as good a build quality and harder to balance) but is 100-200 bucks. Like I said, look around and do research. It is definitely worth investing!
 
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