Imagine if after all this time with shallow depth of field and static tripod we just wanted to get stuff in focus and move the camera…
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MoVI set to revolutionise filmmaking – Vincent LaForet shows gyro stabiliser by Freefly Systems (with footage from GH3 and 1D C)
Check out the GH3 MoVI footage and donate to charity – $3 at Vimeo On Demand
If you’ve ever wanted to pull off just about any camera move with a tiny handheld rig, that just became reality. Potentially replacing the traditional steadicam at a stroke the tiny lightweight MōVI (easier to Google as “MoVI”) is a gyro stabilised platform with gimbal and hand grip. It appears to be so effective it allows you to execute a tracking shot without a track, a pan / tilt without a tripod and a dolly shot without a dolly!
GH3 with timecode, XLR, peaking, OLED viewfinder and magnesium alloy body
There’s a lot to chew over in the latest GH3 specs. EOSHD takes a look point by point…
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Mystery camera revealed – Sony NEX 5N in cine housing with cooling mod
If you are interested in getting one, please let Richard know on the forum…
Richard Gale emailed me a few days ago to tell me about his cinema housing for the NEX 5N.
And here it is.
Richard tells EOSHD more about the housing after the break – how it improves the NEX 5N and how he intends to price it.
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The quest for a small, light, levelling video tripod and head
UPDATE: The research I started with this post had an end result – check it out here
Colin Chapman ran the Lotus F1 team in the 1970’s. When his rivals had powerful turbo engines that kept blowing up Chapman preferred to stay with lighter Ford power units which were less powerful. When his rivals had the upper hand on grunt (think 4K vs 1080p), rather than spend more money on more horse power he made the car lighter. For Chapman this was the smart way to go racing. ‘Add lightness’, he told his engineers.
So they’d add lightness until the car was on the verge of being too fragile. And they won with it. Not just in terms of raw performance but reliability. This is my aim DSLR for rigging. Strip the weight and complexity down until it is as light as can be without being over the limit and compromised for raw performance or stability.
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