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Charles King · March 16th, 2010, 04:14 AM

Someone asked about this article I wrote some time ago, that I had posted here but people had difficulties downloading. So here it is again. Hope it is easier to download. It is 25MB PDF. SteadIcam vs. SteadYcam Enjoy.

Sverker Hahn · March 20th, 2010, 08:06 AM

Thank you for your interesting article.

Charles King · March 31st, 2010, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Sverker Hahn

Thank you for your interesting article.

You're welcome.

Charles Papert · March 31st, 2010, 11:42 AM

Thanks for putting that up CK. Good work.

Regarding just the name: as is the case with many products, the term Steadicam as become somewhat generic for "body-mounted camera stabilizer". In strict terms, it's a registered trademark licensed by Tiffen for Garrett Brown's invention (which was once called the "Brown Stabilizer"...!) When used to describe the genuine article, it's always capitalized, never hyphenated or spelled with a "y", and nominally should have the ® mark.

Since we've started using other systems in the past 15 years, no other term has sprung up to replace the original so although we may have PRO or XCS rigs we still call ourselves Steadicam operators. It's certainly become confusing in recent years with so many small rigs out there--one who flies a Merlin is quite literally a Steadicam operator, but it's quite a different animal than an 85 lb rig!

Charles King · March 31st, 2010, 01:22 PM

I'm glad you approve CP. :) Thank you for all your wise thoughts and advice. I hope this kinds of sums up all speculative questions that we hear of every day on different forums about this topic.

March 16th, 2010, 04:14 AM	#1
Charles King Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: sweden Posts: 795	SteadIcam vs. SteadYcam Someone asked about this article I wrote some time ago, that I had posted here but people had difficulties downloading. So here it is again. Hope it is easier to download. It is 25MB PDF. SteadIcam vs. SteadYcam Enjoy. __________________ Charles 'What we perceive to be may not be what we believe to be.'

March 31st, 2010, 11:42 AM	#4
Charles Papert Wrangler Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 6,810	Thanks for putting that up CK. Good work. Regarding just the name: as is the case with many products, the term Steadicam as become somewhat generic for "body-mounted camera stabilizer". In strict terms, it's a registered trademark licensed by Tiffen for Garrett Brown's invention (which was once called the "Brown Stabilizer"...!) When used to describe the genuine article, it's always capitalized, never hyphenated or spelled with a "y", and nominally should have the ® mark. Since we've started using other systems in the past 15 years, no other term has sprung up to replace the original so although we may have PRO or XCS rigs we still call ourselves Steadicam operators. It's certainly become confusing in recent years with so many small rigs out there--one who flies a Merlin is quite literally a Steadicam operator, but it's quite a different animal than an 85 lb rig! __________________ Charles Papert www.charlespapert.com

March 31st, 2010, 01:22 PM	#5
Charles King Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: sweden Posts: 795	I'm glad you approve CP. :) Thank you for all your wise thoughts and advice. I hope this kinds of sums up all speculative questions that we hear of every day on different forums about this topic. __________________ Charles 'What we perceive to be may not be what we believe to be.'

March 20th, 2010, 08:06 AM	#2
Sverker Hahn Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 157	Thank you for your interesting article.