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Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 14:36:58 No.3314318 View View Reply Original Report

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Can anyone with experience tell me what stabilizer is the best?

I've been looking at this one, movi, and others. But a lot of them including this one have terrible reviews.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 15:15:32 No.3314328 Report

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>>3314318
no idea but i just ordered the ronin - s

well i ordered it like 3 fcking weeks ago. i think it's going to be your best bet in that general price range.

good luck anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 15:22:15 No.3314329 Report

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>>3314318
You're better off saving and buying a proper stabiliser from the chinks off AliExpress.

https://youtu.be/WU5QFP-A5r4

It'll give you a much better experience and they're often on sale on Gearbest or Ali. The ones in your OP tend to be built like shit and made for cheapskates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 15:31:06 No.3314333 Report

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>>3314318
I have a glidecam HD2000, and a Zhyiun Crane V2. The glidecam works effectively, but it takes a LONG time to learn how to use it well. And it kills your arm using it for a long time. Do yourself a favor and buy a gimbal. The learning curve is so much shorter and actually doesn't cost much different. I bought my glidecam like 6 years ago for like $5-600 and I bought my gimbal last year for $400.

Not to whore out a Youtube video I made, but this is a video showing my girlfriend trying to use both the glidecam and the gimbal for the first time (I gave her some instruction on how to use it) to show what a new user can expect using both items.

Skip to 9 minutes to see the comparisons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka0yb9OEzoQ&t=1s

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 16:54:05 No.3314348 Report

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>>3314333
cool thanks

i didnt know attractive people used 4chan

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Jun 2018 17:42:48 No.3314354 Report

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>>3314318
Generally agree with >>3314333

I've never used fancy gimbals, but i've used a lot of stabilizers. In general IMHO, the more you pay, the less of a pain it is to stabilize. It takes practice before your footage no longer looks like a drunkard POV. Those cheap chinese ones can have like 10 adjustment screws on the mount plate and you'll be moving weight plates back and forth forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Jun 2018 00:26:29 No.3314478 Report

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I agree with >>3314333 but want to add that there is a difference in the camera movement between Steadicam and gimbals, so take this in a consideration. Gimbals give you more "robotic" feeling, but can make some tripod and slider moves. Steadicams have more organic and floating feeling...but are heavy to master and can be unusable without a vest if you have a bigger camera.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Jun 2018 18:36:10 No.3314754 Report

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>>3314333
Just because one option is more difficult to master doesnt mean you should automatically choose the easier one. Ease of use often comes in form of limitations.

Both produce a different image and have pro and cons.
natural "human" feel vs robotic/ virtual camera
vertical stabilisation vs stutter
simple exchangeable mechanics vs technologie, software and batteries
weight between a steadycam with counterweights and the crane is basicly the same ~1,3kg.
price difference

If you take the time to learn a steadycam like you do for your camera it shouldnt take too long to handle it well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jun 2018 14:22:35 No.3315102 Report

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>>3314333
I'll take the bait and subscribe to you

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jun 2018 10:53:39 No.3315502 Report

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>>3314333
what the hell was the point of the girl sitting there? she didn't even talk

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jun 2018 12:39:42 No.3315528 Report

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>>3315502
The attempt to increase social value by "look, I got a gf".

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Jun 2018 13:16:05 No.3315544 Report

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>>3315502
I meant to have her talk more in the beginning, but just forgot to ask any questions. But also, she was the one filming half the stuff in the video, so I wanted to get her take on both of the devices.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 26 Jun 2018 20:20:20 No.3315701 Report

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>>3314754
I don't really know what you mean by "stutter" but I do agree with the mechanical look to it. Especially if you're walking at a quick pace, it becomes pretty apparent that it looks funky. You can see every single step that's taken. With that being said though, there are many shots that are almost impossible (not completely impossible" with a glide cam, much of it being that you're limited with how low to the ground you can go with the glidecam, unless you were to balance it to be upside down. The gimbal can do this easily and has a function to do that. Not that it's a shot that everybody needs to do, but it really gives a cool perspective.

I used a shot like that many times in this video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXfSA1WU-s4

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Jun 2018 01:21:10 No.3315787 Report

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i had the HD-2000 for a few years for my Nikon D7000 film setup

Pros:
>once calibrated its the best stabilizers ive ever used, you record yourself tripping down stairs and this would make it looks like a david fincher film

>it comes with everything youll need, plenty (i mean PLENTY) of add on weights for pretty much any filming scenerio

>its durable and solid as fuck

Cons:
>holy hell the calibrating, getting it perfect is gonna take you at least a few weeks of experimenting, for example, do you like to shoot mostly slow pans? or running backwards and dodging obstacles? this all changes how youll calibrate, my god its maddening. you can do a "quick" calibrate thatll do the job but for neat freaks youll just wanna take your time

>need to change your lens? well dont, putting a lens cap on is enough to counter balance the entire system so youre camera will have a 4 ince lean forward suddenly, switchin entire lenses means re-ding the entire process all over again, i suggest staying with an 18-180mm all arounder for this thing.

>its pretty expensive, i got mine for $400 3 years ago, you can get one for $270-350 now if you look

>ITS. SO. FUCKING. HEAVY

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Jun 2018 02:36:23 No.3315805 Report

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i bought a roxant pro clone on ebay for like $15 a few months ago. it works surprisingly well after some wd-40 at the gimbal

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Jun 2018 00:27:18 No.3316131 Report

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I use an original big boy RONIN and let me tell you, the thing fully kitted weighs just shy of 35 pounds. If I want to use it for longer than 10 minutes at a time, I really need to invest in a vest rig, just to balance the weight across my torso.

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