CAME-TV Elastix Unboxing

@konjow

May be this will help

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/15711/gimbals-tuning-tutorials#Item_3

Mini 3 seems like good gimbal. But CAME need to cut price a little.

@IronFilm

It was announced a while ago, I think, not new.

At least we saw it at IBC clearly and I knew about it long before IBC.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev agreed! @IronFilm Glad to hear your report. After posting that I started to think it might not work after-all.

This humorous video actually demonstrates why that part of the body, is not doing you any favors to stabilize your gimbal, and how & why the steadicam style arm is the tried and true standard. Just checkout how that little guys head (your camera/gimbal) is bobbing around! https://www.facebook.com/kinotools/videos/863645540409704/

@IronFilm

In this case it is much cheaper to get Laing vest + arm for gimbals.

Such system is overkill until you have very large gimbal and work for very long periods.

Glidecam had something similar, a "body pod", mount or a similar name. It didn't work either because of the movement the pelvis/chest introduces. But the idea looks promising. I think mounting a gimbal on an Easy Rig might work better to take the weight. But part of the smoothness is due to the human arms, elbows, wrists absorbing bumps, as well.

A true steadicam actually puts the weight on the operators' hips, with a lot of stability added through the vest and absorption on the adjustable, spring-loaged arm, that's all before gimbal. The height of the Z axis remains very steady due to all of this, and any adjustment of that height is intentional, and not operator movement.

I hope CAME can come up with a load bearing solution beyond this current one or we can see a demo video where the operator actually adjusted that spring loaded mount on the Elastix, to make the rest of the gimbal "float" on the mount and hopefully remove that operator movement, present in the footage.

I once did a big budget job with small DV video cameras. The production bought 2 Steadicam Jr.s so the camera operators, could also do their own Steadicam. We balanced the cameras as well as we could, but, the result were poor. Later we shot part of the movie on S16mm film and a pro steadicam op was hired. He was interesting in the "Jr." never having seen one, and in a matter of minutes was getting smooth results from it. The point is, experience is the key, and it can take more than just learning from your mistakes, but, rather learning from someone who knows more than you do.

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Here a short video that I shot on the came single.

I had the Gimbal with me in the Philippines, where you have a hot and humid temperatures, and it never failed. Very good.

Mini 3 gimbal

Main difference is wireless joystick and wireless video transmitter, so you can use it on crane now with ease

Also added encoders.

Available on deals

http://www.personal-view.com/deals/stabilizers-steadicams-gimbals/came#came-mini-3-and-mini-3-air-gimbals