Redrock Micro DigiBoom

puredrifting

puredrifting

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This thing looks pretty damned interesting to me. It solves so many problems and seems as if it could bring a whole new level of production to documentary and run & gun type shooting. Thoughts? While it may or may not work well, kudos to RRM for truly innovating, nobody else is thinking this way that I've seen. As long as there is a shoulder strap to take dead weight holding off of your arms, could be pretty cool for certain shoots.

https://www.cinema5d.com/the-digiboom-a-handheld-jib-and-gimbal-combo-from-redrock-micro/

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Agree. Cool. It's a more advanced (and thus more useful) version of the The Charters Pole from Genustech.

Also substantially more expensive "we expect the kit to be somewhere under $5k". Geez.
 
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I was thinking of maybe making something like that this summer, guess they beat me to it.

Nothing new about a gimbal on a stick really, been getting that from hand held gimbals for a while now, the new part is extending that stick far away from the user. And this is still going to be better on a tripod and then just let the gimbal take the load from tilt and pan.
 
It's funny. I am looking exactly at this kind of solution this week, because I have to shoot a short with two "suicidaires" talking to each other on the edge of a bridge.
Need to find a flexible way to shoot reverses with a camera position extended out beyond the edge of the bridge. If I use a traditional jib, then I have to get into a heavier gear situation than I would like. We need the flexibility of being able to move around and experiment in a way that a normal jib is just too formal and unwieldy. So I was just basically planning on putting my gimbal on the end of a pole and using a light autofocusing lens on an A7S. Poor man's version of a digiboom. (I was actually thinking of a Charter's pole at first - but here we are).

$5K seems expensive though. Guaranteed there will be knock-offs at a tenth of the price one year from now....
 
Everything old is new again...

Saw some sample footage from the NAB show floor. Granted it was sample footage from the floor and I don't know who was shooting it, but it looked a little shaky to me.
 
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I guess the execution level remains to be seen, but the idea is sweet!
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I could probably envision myself buying this before a "normal" electronic gimbal set-up like a Ronin or Movi... Interested to see it used on the tripod set-up that would give it de facto traditional jib functionality, but more more nimble and positionable by one person.
 
Looks amazing, and I see myself using something like that for a lot of shots, but...no way am I spending $5000!
 
Greg_E said:
the new part is extending that stick far away from the user. And this is still going to be better on a tripod and then just let the gimbal take the load from tilt and pan.
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Really? I've been doing this for awhile now. One of my modes for gimbal use is to put it on a monopod with legs. As far as I can tell the only thing this adds is built in gimbal controls on the boom itself. Which is great. I'll give it that this looks like pretty good execution (for a pretty high price). But it is certainly nothing new.
 
I also do it with a zhiyun crane and monopod. I bought the ZC remote so I could play with the gimbal from far away, but it's been a year and I still haven't used it once on a real-world scenario.
 
The Zhiyun were the ones I was thinking about. Extending the controls is the only part that is different. So again not a real technological innovation here, I see it as kind of obvious so I hope they weren't able to patent it.
 
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