handheld and over the shoulder AF100 best products?

biginvegas said:
http://www.hotrodcameras.com/2011/01/af100-and-the-hot-rod-tuner-kit-wcineroid-evf-photos/

That's it Illya, well done it's the rig I have been looking for my AF and cineroid. I have the Hot Rod deluxe PL so will be buying the base plate, pl chassis and figure out my own shoulder support from there. There is a base plate on that set up and you have two sets of 15 rods ? No FF on that rig but looks to fit?

BTW how was Slamdance?
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I've been offline from the interwebs for a bit because of some exciting product developments that I can't share just yet. We've also been running the machine shop 6x days a week 13-hours a day to get ahead of orders and to eventually shrink lead time down to 0. So my apologies for this belated response.

Both Sundance and Slamdance were strong this year. I had 3x Hot Rod Cameras clients with movies at Sundance and of course the big succsess story was my client Like Crazy which sold to Paramount and also won the Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature, a wonderful bonus.

I spoke on Tuesday at Slamdance on HD technology and specifically the AF100 with Bernie Mitchell. Vilmos Zsigmond, the Oscar-winning cinematographer was our lead-in which was nice.

A local Park City artist acquired a 65mm camera and refurbished it to like new condition with a custom Hasselblad lens mount on display on main street, which for a camera geek like me was pretty cool to see.

Sony had a private party for the F3, and I got to pixel-peep some of the footage on a calibrated monitor which was nice. Saw several old friends, met some really great people, saw some outstanding movies (one may never be projected in this country again which is tragic) and also some movies which were a terrible wastes of time. Ate some lousy party food, and also got to try a Crown burger in SLC- Mmmmmm! won several local "best of" awards, highly recommend if you like burgers and are in SLC.

Saw Mitch Gross from Abel Cine with an Alexa @ the New York Lounge on my way out of town. Even being inside and with a big coat on, I couldn't help but think that he still looked cold. I think Mitch just trading one blast of "cold" for another as Park City was probably about as cold as NYC.

Carmen Electra and Peter Dinklage were possibly the most visible celebs on/off main street. Both seemed extremely gracious when tourists stopped them and asked for photos.
 
I have never ever used a shoulder mount for hand held shots. 35mm, 16mm, video or DV cameras.

I prefer the natural ability of my arms and body to suspend the camera. (especially in movement.) and to compensate for horizon and shake.

Then again...I have never been a News camera man or done extreme long shots off the shoulder.

I have also done a lot of steadicam (when a bit younger) and to me...the arms and steadicam are a similar "device".

I feel that shoulder mounts induce sway.
 
I was on a big shoot this weekend, and the one thing I could see using the shoulder rig for was long lenses. With an 85mm lens, I could see a huge difference in using it with a shoulder setup. I wouldn't use the shoulder setup for everything, or with wide lenses, but for the longer stuff where I don't want to use the steadicam, it was great.
 
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