Question on Glidecam Accessories

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Indiefx

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Hey! First time poster here.

Anyway, I picked up a DVX-100b reciently and actually have started to film a few short documentaries and a music video I've been working on for a month or so.

Anyway, question is, we reciently purchased a Glidecam 2000 Pro, it's a fantastic thing once you get the hang of it, but by the end of the day filming, my wrists are to the point of carpel tunnel. We were thinking of buying a wrist support or a body pod or something of that sort. Any suggestions?

Just wondering if anyone had either or and have some positive or negative feedback before we decide to buy.

Thanks!
 
Thanks. I just noticed before you posted about the body pod restricting some of the fluid motion.

Question on the wrist support, I'm fine holding the camera all by itself, it's just the quick release I purchased added around half a pound, so I'm using 10 weights just on the bottom. Would the wrist support be able to withstand all of the weight? I'm just too worried on the fabric ripping on the wrist support.

Thanks!
 
Body Pod Sucks...I had one sold it a day after I got it.....Tried the brace......a little better still wasn't happy. Then got the Smooth Shooter....worth EVERY PENNY. Your back and wrists and kids will thank you...If you have kids!!
 
Well, as much as I'd LOVE to just pick one up, I'm still an independent shooter, so that'll have to be budgeted sometime eventually.

So no go on the wrist support? I can carry it all day long, I just would like a bit less weight on my wrists and be more distributed amongst my arm.

Why'd you say no-go on the wrist support? Wouldn't it do something along that line?

Thanks again!
 
Here's a great tip: not only get the wrist support but go to the pharmacy and by an arm sling, the kind you use for a broken or sprained arm. I got one at Walgreens for $12, and it is now effortless to hold the Glidecam with the splint and wrist support. I can do it for hours. Good luck
 
Interesting tip, Ned. Makes sense. Inexpensive. An arm is very important, whether it's mechanical or biological. As others have said, the body mount is not a great idea as it removes a key piece of the camera isolation equation.
 
nedcam said:
Here's a great tip: not only get the wrist support but go to the pharmacy and by an arm sling, the kind you use for a broken or sprained arm. I got one at Walgreens for $12, and it is now effortless to hold the Glidecam with the splint and wrist support. I can do it for hours. Good luck
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Your footage will suffer er so slightly from this. Your arm is basically reproducing what the arm on a vest does, i.e. spring. If you sling it, it gets rid of any of that.

Even the wrist support does damage to your vertical movement, i can't imagine how much a sling would affect this.

anyhow, i strongly recommend against this.
 
A wrist support of some type is recomended for a Glidecam stabilizer. The design of the Glidecam puts huge tourque on the operato's wrist, the more support youc an provide for that, the better.

That "up-down" "isolation" is a negative side effect of the Glidecam. A gimble only ever is designed to provide angular isolation. The up-down positional isolation is actually your wrist bending in unison with the gimble - essentially twisting your wrist around the gimble - in a way that appears to provide some vertical isolation. But really that's a bad thing (bad for your wrist) that has very little stabilisation benefit.

- Mikko
 
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