tips to good hand held?

Steve Laramie

Steve Laramie

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anyone have any trait secrets to getting stable shots hand held with the HVX200a or cameras alike? Im pretty stable for 10 minutes but then it gets shaky. This mainly pertains to wedding videos for me.
 
lairhair said:
anyone have any trait secrets to getting stable shots hand held with the HVX200a or cameras alike? Im pretty stable for 10 minutes but then it gets shaky. This mainly pertains to wedding videos for me.
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Last year at Photoshop World a fellow was shooting the conference with an HVX200. He had a harness on that held the camera at a bit highter than mid chest. Used the eyepiece to focus, etc. and while not a steady cam or the like, did allow him to 'wander', without too much apparent fatigue.

Unfortunately I've lost track of the info on the harness...
 
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Yep, using one of those belly shoulder thingies does
give you a good stable shot, I managed to catch a australian nice fella
working with Redbull using one, that he could run by using a control pad,
it was pretty cool!
 
Bring your elbows in tight to your sides, keep your feet shoulder width apart, maybe stagger one slightly forward, knees flexed. If there's something stable around - wall, tree, etc. - lean against it.
 
Now that is budget!! :) But probably the way to go.

However I think anyone should try build their own stabilizer, it just
makes everything much more hearty you know :)

dopeyname101 said:
Bring your elbows in tight to your sides, keep your feet shoulder width apart, maybe stagger one slightly forward, knees flexed. If there's something stable around - wall, tree, etc. - lean against it.
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CherryTime said:
Now that is budget!! :) But probably the way to go.

However I think anyone should try build their own stabilizer, it just
makes everything much more hearty you know :)
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See, I don't think using any kinda stabilizer really counts as "hand-held."

I use a spiderbrace, myself, but I still stick to those principles when I shoot.
 
Oh, and get to lifting some weights - moreso light weights, lotta reps, to build muscle endurance, rather than heavy weights, few reps, which builds brute strength. You won't tire out as easily.
 
strangways said:
I would suggest this:
http://www.varizoom.com/products/supports/vzDVMediaRig.html

I have an older version, the DV Rig Pro, and I love it. It helps me survive long shoot days, and steadily hand-hold shots at longer telephoto.

There's a review of that one here:
http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/dvrig/
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This looks like the one I saw being used at the 2007 Photoshop World conference.

mcgeedigital said:
http://www.easyrig.se/tortlerig.html
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This one looks interesting... but I'd have to try it out...
 
I am not turned on by the easyrig tortlerig. I guess it would be useful to strap a hotdog on the wire and run on a tred mill but other then that I think you would just look stupid shooting with it ha.
 
lairhair said:
I am not turned on by the easyrig tortlerig. I guess it would be useful to strap a hotdog on the wire and run on a tred mill but other then that I think you would just look stupid shooting with it ha.
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It did sort of look like one of those deepsea fish which has a "lure" attached to its head... but then perhaps it could be a "chick magnet"... especially at weddings...
well my big taped glasses geek weddings...
 
There is always the $14 dollar steadicam here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/ . I've also always had good success with bracing the camera against your eye (w/ the viewfinder) and arm on some sort of steady object or holding the camera mid chest level with both hands using the LCD and bracing the camera against your chest.
 
ha anyone remember that anton bauer stableizer for the HVX. Its got a shoulder thing and a goose neck that can be locked down.
 
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