Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

Grips use WD40 for those track squeaks on metal tracks.

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

There are harder and softer wheels/casters available, the softer ones tending to be quieter. A google search will reveal different suppliers of quieter wheels and their characteristics.

Baby powder and Pledge are also used quietening wheels on tracks.

This product looks interesting for a lower budget dolly system, Long Valley Equipment | products There's a home build version, for which they supply the hardware.

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

Ryan's done his usual thing and ducked out, getting ready to start another topic on a different subject.

The good thing though, is that these big topics will probably help other people as there is plenty of useful information in it (and the others)

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

crane shot? special effects? green screen? rotoscoping? drone? lighting?

It’s funny at the start of these threads I’m thinking to myself here we go again but by the end someone has posted something interesting.

Btw I saw an animated gif of a crash zoom and I thought of Ryan
https://media0.giphy.com/media/IX89WTEnYgvM4/giphy.gif

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

One of the smoothest combos is to use a gimbal combined with a jib. A la so or so or with a compact but with 65 cm of movement double action slider:


watch the video on this page:

https://www.haguecamerasupports.com/...-camera-slider

Chris Young

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

Chris - is anything weird with the video file - I'm getting warnings and now a blank screen on my Mac - it made me install an update, then still won't play it?

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

No no Vimeo problems here Paul? Just tried the link again and all is good with Vimeo this end.

Also have a look at the double action Hague unit, a UK product. Just added it to my post.

https://www.haguecamerasupports.com/...-camera-slider

Chris Young

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Cheers Chris - the link works fine, ta!

I'm trying to think what I could do to produce that quite specific look without a parallel tracking slider. I wonder if I could replicate the effect with a jib and very careful panning? If we het the heat wave next week, I might try some of the junk laying around my house and see if any function as a smooth tracking system.

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

For the 2nd time, that is a Steadicam shot. You can find the operator who did it on the Steadicam Operators Association site and ask him yourself.

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

I suspect in this thread there's less of how a shot was originally filmed and more about other methods, especially using Ryan's limited equipment options.

It doesn't look like a Steadicam shot to me (unless it's hard mounted on a dolly), more likely a dolly or other camera mount. There are a number of ways to shoot it, but a dolly on a circular track would be the most simple.

Re: What equipment is good for this type of camera movement?
 

A bit off topic but I am sorely tempted by this slider. Multi Slider, the fact that it is bendable, smallish, portable and super flexible gets me for sure. Not cheap but take a look at the video on this page:

https://www.waterbird.at/update-blog/7-range-of-use

Home page here:

https://www.diyphotography.net/multi...camera-slider/

Interview here:

https://www.diyphotography.net/multi...camera-slider/

Chris Young

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I’m glad you said that. Thought my judgement was going!!

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Unless there was a lack of space, I would go for a dolly over a Steadicam for a very slow 180 degree shot like that as much as I enjoyed doing slow dolly style shots with a Steadicam.

Regardless, the skill levels required are way beyond what Ryan and his crew are currently capable of with a Steadicam or seemingly equipped for.

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Another thought regarding the Steadicam in this case is the operator's shadow on a sitting subject. The operator will usually be standing, so restricting the lighting on the subject during a 180 degree shot if you wish to avoid casting their shadow at some point during the move.

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I'll admit I didn't spend much time on this, but I took the camera today and tried some 'bodged' tracking shots. No messing, no speed changes, no stabilisation - just pressed record. One indoors, one outside.

https://vimeo.com/user616661/review/...177/cea46d8751