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Old September 25th, 2005, 09:26 PM   #1
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Homemade Steadicam?

I heard on imdb.com that while filming Dead/Alive Peter Jackson made his very own steadicam stabilizer. Does anyone out there now a site where I could aquire such information on how to build my own?
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Old September 25th, 2005, 10:35 PM   #2
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http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/

Lots of homebuilds and books available to buy.
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Old September 27th, 2005, 12:52 AM   #3
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

My friend built one of these and it's great!
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Old September 27th, 2005, 03:18 AM   #4
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I propose that we officially categorize the $14 rig with the Fig rig ...both rather similar :: big handles for the camera.

I'm definatly not critisizing their performance and hand-held rigs, but can we please stop calling them Steadicam "type" stabilizers? They just arn't. - Just to keep things honest and to the point. ;)

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