[MacDV] A junky pic of scooter-cam...

[filks]

I'm very excited!
So far I've been using a monopod with a small brick
tied to the base. :)

Many TIA,
-filipp


Ryan Sutter wrote:
> 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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