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

[Gary Fujihara]

looks like a cool adaptation.  My question is shock isolation, which implies spring 
loading the gimbal handle - how you spring load the gimbal?

Fujmon

----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Sutter <ryan at ryansutter.net>
Date: Friday, January 2, 2004 7:27 pm
Subject: [MacDV] A junky pic of scooter-cam...

> 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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