Steadicam Merlin in the Wild
Friday I got to break out our shiny new Steadicam Merlin and use it in an actual real life shoot. The video features our good friend Josh Riebock. We’ll post the whole video when it’s done. In the meantime, Lee did a little (very low res) side by side comparison of the Steadicam shot we pulled off and a handheld shot of us pulling off the Steadicam shot. The Steadicam shot is on the left and that’s me operating the Steadicam, backing away from Josh, on the right. Notice how smooth the Steadicam shot is compared to a walking handheld shot. Pretty cool.
Tags: cinematography, josh riebock, production, Steadicam, tips
March 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
What Cam did you use for the shot?? Looks great. I have the glidecam 2000 but its fairly heavy with the Canon XH-A1. Well I just need to work out instead of complaining!!
ChurchyDave
March 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
We use an HVX200 which is right at the top end of the Merlin’s tolerance but the Merlin so nicely engineered that you can really get great smooth shots with practice (I still need lots).