Get up high: Orion DVC210 DLSR crane review

These jibs are very cumbersome to lug around, set up and prep for capturing. I would opt for a quadcopter instead.

Oh I see now. About that pan shot. I did it with the Orion 210 Jib as well.

My suggestions for a better shot:
You can better control if you attach a quality fluid video head, between the tripod thread and the Jib attachment plate. And given your budget, buy another head to attach to the plate located on the peak of the jib.

Ahhh. Lets see now.

1960. Buy some film shot 32 images, wait a week for the resulting prints.
Movie? Sure, shoot 8mm (actually 16mm film sliced in half). wait a fortnight for the processing and invite the crew over for a 'film night'.

2014. Buy a DSLR then some lenses then some flash cards then some software and a computer, monitor and printer. Spend 6 months figuring it all out. Shoot 1000 images and throw out 950 of them.
Movie? Sure... Flick a switch. shoot a few minutes at a time. Same computer more software then more gear then better camera, more gear again and have you got the picture yet?

I've published magazines for 30 years. The first one was on an Arari computer and laser printer... Total cost? $1200. Today I use a seriously expensive PC and even more seriously expensive software and printer.

Nothing I do today is any different (except for the color) than I did 30 years ago except I upgrade my software and PC annually and earn 20% of what I used to make!

Looks like about $500 without the monitor. Solid build. Relatively stable, as stable goes (be careful), with jibs. However, like the competing products, the gear is a bit heavy, requires careful assembly, and cannot be deployed casually. Orion might consider offering something quick and light for small cameras, perhaps like the Boom Bandit, which is currently the sole player in its league. True, it's not the same thing, but for small cameras it offers about 80% of the results with only 10% of the weight or setup time.

For still shots, I'd rather use my Bogen/Manfrotto 3048 and a step ladder to get my camera to a height of 11 feet.

I do crane shots using a monopod and nothing else. It works for some shots but not if you need your camera to remain level throughout the shot. With tiny gimbal stabilizers coming out for small cameras (GoPros, DSLRs), the same gimbals used to stabilize cameras under drones, I can see people attaching these to the end of a monopod and getting the same kind of result at a fraction of the equipment size and weight.

Why not use a tablet instead of the monitor? Then you can control the camera settings from the 'monitor', plus resolution is higher (though colour accuracy may be lower). Cost is about the same, but a tablet is useful for other things too.

"LaRue? Is that at crane shot?? It's a CRANE SHOT!!"
Guy Cabalero to Johnny LaRue, "Second City TV."

Interesting, if somewhat heath-robinson device. But this would frustrate me by only going about as high as you could the traditional way, with a small step ladder. If I want shots from up there, I'll buy a hexcopter drone!

Brian

Can't see video. Says "private".

The video is private!