Build Your Own Steadicam

John Jorsett writes "Always wanted to film one of those cool 'walking' sequences, where the camera stays rock-steady as you trudge along? Well, so did Johnny Chung Lee, except he didn't want to lay out major cash for a professional Steadicam rig, so he built his own for $14. He further claims you can do it in about 20 minutes if you know what you're doing. What more could a cheap, impatient Spielberg wannabe ask for?"

I don't know...

[Anonymous Coward]

How about talent?

In response to "What more could a cheap ..."

[mhesseltine]

What more could a cheap, impatient Spielberg wannabe ask for?"

How about a better room to film in than the bathroom? Seriously, are we going to be expected to line up around the block for "SteadyShit"

Tourist...

[Bl33d4merican]

YEAY!...Now I can look even stupider when I visit other places and take meaningless film I'll never watch again.

stedicam+phone

[fermion]

These are cheap enough to use with a picture phone. And with the inverting bracket, we can now have upskirt shots without the blur!

What I'd like to know...

[PS-SCUD]

How'd he manage to build it without Duct tape!? Now that's impressive.

Hey a DUAL Purpose steadicam

[MajorDick]

Wow thats got a dual purpose, works to keep your movement from interefeing with the shot and if the actors get out of line you can break it down and beat em with the pipe, also works great for self-defense when shooting ghetto style.

Re:Pretty cool stuff

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Except that shipping anything with such and odd shape with a dead-weight attached is going to be more expensive to ship than $14.

Re:Easy Question

[Monkelectric]

this isn't really new, I studied under the great Steven Speilbergo and we used these all the time.

Re:stedicam+phone

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Though with all that pipework and the dumbbell, you would be hard-pressed not to make your picturephone look like some sort of S&M apparatus, or a sex toy on Viagra.

Note to Moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

Please mark as "Overrated" due to poster's plea not to be moderated as redundant and the fact it's boring and not really related to this discussion at all.

Spielberg wannabe?

[chgros]

Actually, more of a Kubrick wannabe

Damn!

[pair-a-noyd]

How the fsck do you /. a .edu system?

Holy shit!

Thats amazing

[stratjakt]

Like any of you jog, let alone with a camcorder.

Re:Hey a DUAL Purpose steadicam

[name773]

when shooting ghetto style
i'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with cameras

Getting good results...

[dj245]

Its a ghetto type job, but it looks like it works. This quote from the article is a little disturbing though:

Getting good results is not so much about the equipment, but how you use it.

I tried that bit on my girlfriend but she didn't fall for it.

This is a DMCA violation.

[Anonymous Coward]

This "dude" has obviously violated the SteaduCam patent as per the DMCA. Gentlemen, quite simply, this is IP rape, of the vilest order. I'm notifying the patent holder immediately.

Re:Slashdotted? Here is a PDF copy of the site!

[ashot]

am I allowed to simply left-click, or is that against the rules?

Re:stedicam+phone

[TummyX]

I would be able to see the forest, if all these damn trees weren't blocking my view!

Given the context, I really hope that that is just your signature.

Re:I don't know...

[geeber]

Well, it's not like Spielberg himself has all that much...

How strange

[RainbowSix]

How weird is it to go to the site, read the text, then watch the movie, only to see some very familiar backgrounds. I then looked at the url and realized that it is from the same school I go to. No wonder the download was so fast :)

Welcome to slashdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

...but I will have to repectfully disagree with you.

You must be new here...

Easy

[sharkey]

What more could a cheap, impatient Spielberg wannabe ask for?"

Walkie-talkies.

Might be great for making porn

[leereyno]

Maybe this will help out some of the people who make amateur porn and just can't seem to hold the camera still. Just don't let John Ashcroft find out.

Am I the only one who think's he's the real-life version of John Lithgow's character in Footloose?

Lee

Re:Welcome to slashdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you! We can be just as respectfull as we want. Asshat.

Re:Welcome to slashdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

Asshat.

What the fuck is it with that word? Is it the new trendy insult?

Re:Pretty cool stuff

[Mateito]

Watch out for the Spicy Hot Home Video [digitalmedianet.com] on that site.

Yeah... I kill me too ;)

Re:Welcome to slashdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it was the new trendy insult a couple of years ago.

Re:What I'd like to know...

[fbform]

Some of my friends cling to the notion that the two greatest things in this world are duct tape and Gold Bond.

This of course is sheer nonsense. Any connoisseur would know that the two greatest things in the world are duct tape and WD-40. :-)

But sadly there are still some things [csittl.com] that they cannot do.

Re:Does what it says it does

[Lumpy]

as the director and DP of a filimg group I do beleive in suffering for my art. the Suffering though is done by my crew and the actors.

Oh I'll make them suffer alright....

Squash anyone

[Anonymous Coward]

What i really want to know is...

where the heck can i play professional squash.

Oh yeah!