Good gimbal advice?

[uncle dunc]

We don’t hand hold the camera on the property work. It’s all sliders, tripods and jibs.

You can see some results here;

https://pageonemedia.co.uk/property-videos/

Thanks for the link. Cool stuff.

Here's a YouTube guy doing real estate videos for realtors (million dollar homes) with a hand held stabilizer. His footage is really smooth, but he looks like a weight lifter. I couldn't imagine carrying that rig around for an extended period of time.

He mentions his stabilizer at 3:48.

 

[Gary3000]

I have zero idea of what your talking about....

same thread, different branch discussion:

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[Cameranoobie]

We used to use gimbals for property a few years ago, but stopped As I was keen to get a more controlled and predictable movement.... and frankly I think it’s this control that has improved the product and has lead to us quadrupling our output....

Could you elaborate on your non-gimbal, hand held technique? Are you using a two-handled cage? Relying on IBIS?

We don’t hand hold the camera on the property work. It’s all sliders, tripods and jibs.

You can see some results here;

https://pageonemedia.co.uk/property-videos/

If we are shooting hand held for other projects we use a monopod, or a shoulder rig, in addition to both the ronin and the smaller zoom.

But it depends on the result we want from the project, or the nature of the project.

the big drawbacks with gimbals is the difficulty of feeding quality location audio into the camera and the difficulty with managing the focus... aside from How physically demanding the work can be, and with the ronin especially the need for a two person team to run it.

Imho gimbals can do fun things, but they are also limiting in many ways.

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I've used sliders and shoulder rigs before. I would take a gimbal anytime over a slider or shoulder rig. I would use a Joby Gorillapod over a shoulder rig.

Shoulder rigs are clunky, cumbersome and uncomfortable (at least I find). Sliders are ridiculously huge, and a PITA to set up and take down, plus they take up way more space than a gimbal does.

 

[jayvee7]

I have zero idea of what your talking about....