A junky pic of scooter-cam...

[Ryan Sutter]

I used my son's lousy digital camera to snap a picture of the 
scooter-cam just to show what it is and what it does.  I put the pic on 
my nucleargopher.com website at:

http://www.nucleargopher.com/images/scooter-cam.jpg

Sorry for the terrible image quality.  Both of my good cameras are out 
of state with my wife right now.  Anyhow, as you might be able to tell 
by the picture the concept is simple.  Instead of you holding your 
camera and transmitting all your arm and body movements to it, the 
camera is on a post that has a counterweight at the bottom.  This 
counterweight keeps the camera steady and level.  You hold on to the 
handle which moves freely up and down in and around.  If your arm moves 
up, down, left or right, the camera stays steady.  If your bodies 
movements move the handle, but that doesn't stop the camera from 
staying nice and stationary.  I can literally hold this by the handle 
and twist my wrist and lift my arm up and down and even jump a little 
the camera doesn't move in any appreciable amount.  Of course if you 
overweight or underweight the bottom than the whole thing can get a 
little swingy (maybe not a word, but you know what I mean...).  So, the 
weights need to be adjustable in both position and quantity.  For more 
information and to compare the scooter-cam to the real thing, check out 
the Glidecam 2000 website:

http://www.glidecam.com/2000pro.html

I'll put plans and all that together as soon as I can.  I knew I was 
excited about this but I didn't realize how excited everybody else 
would be.  :-)

Ryan Sutter

On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 09:00  PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>>> Am I the only one who wants to know where I can get the PLANS!?
>>>
>>> Carl
>>
>> No.  I'm interested, too.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Ditto!  However, I must confess to being a bit dense.  Exactly what 
> does it do, and how does it work?
>
> 		Zane
>
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