Bing, you're very condescending and unfair in your categorization of me; please adhere to the forum rules or leave this discussion.
You're very dogmatic in your vitriol against tripods, could you explain why?
Tripod shots aren't necessarily locked off, it's a static perspective, but you still have the option to pan, tilt, and zoom. If the studio has a smooth floor, you can use a tripod dolly to get smooth moving shots.
I made my comments fully aware of optical image stabilization, 5-axis in-body image stabilization, gyro stabilization, and software stabilization.
Those are all great tools to have, and they work well to a point, but even the newest iterations have drawbacks, limitations, and shortcomings. A tripod avoids stabilization problems in the first place.
IBIS can fight you when you're trying to pan, you have to program in the focal length for non-CPU lenses, and the edges of the frame can be wobbly.
Most of the aforementioned stabilization methods can introduce some kind of artifacts, but they are preferable to shaky footage.
Hollywood hasn't abandoned Alexas, tripods, Fisher dollies, Easyrigs, and Steadicams in favor of Buranos with IBIS. IBIS is just another stabilization tool, not a replacement for all others.
When making recommendations for beginners, I believe it's prudent to eliminate variables where things can go awry, which is why I recommended recording in Rec.709 and using a tripod. You should note that I recommended Tomasz do his own research, as I was operating off scant information.
Nothing beats your "dogmatic" statement that all handheld video makes you seasick! So, I just returned your strong assertion with an equally strong statement about the recommendation to use a tripod. But I did not say that using a tripod will make anyone ill, although it does make me laugh.
Taking my critical comments on your recommendation to use a tripod and your over-the-top attacks on handheld video as personal and condescending is your issue. I have read many of your posts and know you have terrific knowledge. But look at what you said in this thread - all handheld videos make you seasick, all handheld videos are shaky. Those are not the helpful statements of an informed person; they are false and at the very least hyperbole. False and misleading statements do not violate Forum policy, but attacks on those statements do?
I posted handheld videos here giving you the opportunity to comment on them. They directly contradict your implication that all handheld videos are shaky and that tripods are always necessary. Do they make you seasick?
Using camera stabilization does require new knowledge, and practice. For example, there are IBIS pan modes on Panasonic cameras that enable you to smoothly pan (up or down, left or right). The wobbly frame edges are only for very wide-angle lenses, and there are electronic stabilization techniques that avoid them. Gyro stabilization requires faster shutter speeds, which is an issue.
For a novice, solely recommending out of date techniques is not helpful. Informing the novice about alternatives is, but you did not do that - tripod, tripod. Never handheld, no handheld. You did not display or use your knowledge, you just showed a very strong bias. What is that based on?
And, please, let's avoid bringing up Hollywood. But if you must, Hollywood does not simply use tripods (If they use them at all) - they use gimbals and cranes and dollies and jibs and sliders and drones. They use tracks. And most of all they use digital enhancements like there's no tomorrow. That stuff is out of our league and budget. The cameras are also much bigger, making handheld video difficult compared with the newer alternatives now available to everyone that shoot almost equally-good video (this is what threatens many).
The OP is not shooting a Hollywood film. A new action cam shooting 4K is probably the simplest solution unless the "scenes" are very low light. He can move around freely and unobtrusively, not worry about focus, and produce videos that will look great. They even shoot 10bit color and log gammas. A step up from those would be the gimbal-based DJI Pocket 3. The 4K videos from these are vey high quality. IBIS in the big-boy cameras and these newer camera forms have just made the tripod a dinosaur.
I still find it funny to envision the OP trying to discreetly drag around a professional shoot a giant fluid-head tripod, or rolling it around (quietly?).
