Walking around while recording with the A7-ii creates an impressive cinematic effect...

[spacemn]

Just watched this one on youtube:

Who needs a gimbal or other expensive and complex stabilizers for video. The A7S with IBIS will become the ultimate compact video recording device!

What's more impressive is that the video is shot while only 3 of 5-axis of the IBIS are working as it is a manual Zeiss cinema lens as far as I can read.

 

[kuuan]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

 

[spacemn]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

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photos mostly taken with manual lenses on Ricoh GXR M, Sony NEX5N, Pentax K-x and *istDs: http://flickr.com/photos/kuuan/

You are right, I didn't see that, this info was hidden in the comments. This explains some of the smooth panning movement. However, a glide cam is much easier to use and less expensive than gimbal devices - these seem to be a nightmare to calibrate.

The walking movements are nicely subdued by the camera though.

 

[Cobber55]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

 

[spacemn]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

 

[Cobber55]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

 

[forceofnature]

note that Glidecam HD 2000, a 450 usd steady cam device, was used

 

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The OM-D guys have been saying the same thing for years. You still get wobble and jello effect. There is a limit to the stabilization too. Even when you try to hold the camera perfectly still to match a tripod there will be movement.

Any camera with 4K video does a lot better. With the 4x more pixels you can stabilize up and down, left and right, as well as rotation. You could fix the awful jello effect, moire and aliasing too. You can even pan, zoom, and track a subject perfectly within the frame. And you are left with video 3-4 times the resolution.

 

[teddoman]

The video just looked too good to be true...and then I read then comments below, and indeed it was

Still it was nice hoping for a minute or so

 

[blue_skies]

Just watched this one on youtube:

Who needs a gimbal or other expensive and complex stabilizers for video. The A7S with IBIS will become the ultimate compact video recording device!

What's more impressive is that the video is shot while only 3 of 5-axis of the IBIS are working as it is a manual Zeiss cinema lens as far as I can read.

Did you consider a basic handheld video stabilizer? This works with all cameras (without IBIS) and produces similar, if not better, results.

The key in panning video is not the smoothness, it is the panning speed. If panning too fast, the results are simply painful to watch back.

The video that you referenced to simply controlled the movement by being slow & smooth - this is what you noticed in the playback.

Without stabilization (of any type), the video will become jerky which is also painful to watch back.

IBIS looks promising, but OSS already handled most of this.

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Cheers,
Henry

 

[blue_skies]

Just noticed that this was exactly how the video was made, using a glidecam instead of the Revo.

Just watched this one on youtube:

Who needs a gimbal or other expensive and complex stabilizers for video. The A7S with IBIS will become the ultimate compact video recording device!

What's more impressive is that the video is shot while only 3 of 5-axis of the IBIS are working as it is a manual Zeiss cinema lens as far as I can read.

Did you consider a basic handheld video stabilizer? This works with all cameras (without IBIS) and produces similar, if not better, results.

The key in panning video is not the smoothness, it is the panning speed. If panning too fast, the results are simply painful to watch back.

The video that you referenced to simply controlled the movement by being slow & smooth - this is what you noticed in the playback.

Without stabilization (of any type), the video will become jerky which is also painful to watch back.

IBIS looks promising, but OSS already handled most of this.

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Cheers,
Henry

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Cheers,
Henry

 

[kuuan]

Just watched this one on youtube:

Who needs a gimbal or other expensive and complex stabilizers for video. The A7S with IBIS will become the ultimate compact video recording device!

What's more impressive is that the video is shot while only 3 of 5-axis of the IBIS are working as it is a manual Zeiss cinema lens as far as I can read.

Did you consider a basic handheld video stabilizer? This works with all cameras (without IBIS) and produces similar, if not better, results.

The key in panning video is not the smoothness, it is the panning speed. If panning too fast, the results are simply painful to watch back.

The video that you referenced to simply controlled the movement by being slow & smooth - this is what you noticed in the playback.

Without stabilization (of any type), the video will become jerky which is also painful to watch back.

IBIS looks promising, but OSS already handled most of this.

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Cheers,
Henry

this Revo stabilizer shown wouldn't possibly have worked as well as the more substantial one used for the sample video, and I am sure the A7II is doing well stabilizing

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photos mostly taken with manual lenses on Ricoh GXR M, Sony NEX5N, Pentax K-x and *istDs: http://flickr.com/photos/kuuan/