Poor man's steadycam

[dojoman]

Does any of you have this? Ready made one is $40 but can be DIY for as little as $14.
http://steadycam.org/

[saaby]

Stabilizer, not steadycam. No gimbal involved.

[Ben_B]

I have one. It works...decently. I ended up paying a bit more than $14 getting beefier pipe. It's not my favorite DIY stabilizer...I prefer handles and shoulder type stuff. I haven't used it with GH1 much...did some tests with HVX about a year ago and it worked ok...I don't think of it as being worth the extra weight necessarily, for GH1 it might work nicely.

[djbobbyrhodes]

My friend built the steadicam from "Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build". It's really nice, and I believe he built it for less than $100.

[yia]

so I'm guessing the cheapest steadicam out there is the poor man's steadicam rite

[andrzejkra]

Cheapest solution is using your collapsed tripod as a stabilizer.

[yabyum]

Cheapest solution is using your collapsed tripod as a stabilizer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1aPbwcqquk&feature=fvw
good tutorial on this

I've been using this and it's been working decently so far. Thinking of building my own though... I want rails and dolly in and side to side abilities!!

[PhilD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1aPbwcqquk&feature=fvw
good tutorial on this

I've been using this and it's been working decently so far. Thinking of building my own though... I want rails and dolly in and side to side abilities!!

That would be very cool

I already use my poor mans steadicam as a monopod (or tripod because I can leave it there), although it's not good for video

Adding a slider would make it perfect

[bill totolo]

Does any of you have this? Ready made one is $40 but can be DIY for as little as $14.
http://steadycam.org/

I have one and it works pretty well with smaller cameras. I used it with a mini DV palm-corder.
If interested I'll sell you mine since I've moved on to bigger cameras.

[sammysammy]

guys anyone tried either the U-flycam or the Indie Hardware stabilizer..im thinking of buying one for the gh1 with the kit lens or other nikon lenses hooked...thanks in advance..