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Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization
Iddo Genuth writes "Videographer Tom Antos developed an advanced DIY camera stabilizer which can hold almost any DSLR or mirrorless camera steady for video photography. Although this surely isn't as sophisticated (and super expensive) as the professional MVI M10 handheld 3-axis digital stabilized camera gimbal, its still quite impressive especially when you consider it only costs a few hundred dollars rather then tens of thousands — that is if you feel like building it yourself." Antos' design takes advantage of stabilized gimbal systems made for hanging cameras on remote-controlled helicopters, and does a very impressive job for its price.
Why not take the same sensors data and apply the same computation but into digitally manipulating the image on the fly instead of actuating motors?
"look honey, we can either waste money buying a used car, or i can build one myself out of spare parts. i can literally save $5000, and it will only take me 3 years"
Owls appear to be a pretty suitable stabiliser, too.
What's wrong with tripods or image stabilization?
I like this man's ingenuity, and DIY ethic. But the final video is obviously jerky and unusable, which he explains by saying you need to balance the camera better than he did in an earlier step. Perhaps reshooting a better example with the camera balanced would have been better approach to get people interested. Because after watching the video, we have to take his word for it that this will actually work. Which doesn't really make me want to run out and try it.
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The latest Olympus cameras have 5-axis in-body stabilization that works with all lenses. They cost $1000, including the camera, and probably work much better than anything that tries to stabilize an entire camera. This third party review shows off how well it works.
Gimbal my arse
That shouldn't be a problem, I've managed to locate a suitable attachment point for the fixture right in the middle of it.
Ezekiel 23:20
I thought this was about helicopter parents... I didn't see how calling your son's university to see if he's in class would help my pictures.
Examples:
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If you need to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.
There's a little bit more to it, but basically for this DIY project he's bought a gimbal that's meant to provide steady images on a model helicopter and mounted it to himself?
Not quite "DIY steadycam from Helicopter parts"
In fact, and I realise this is nothing new, the title is completely wrong.
because the car doesnt work.
because if your creation cant be justified because its cool or fun, dont try to lie about why you are doing it. none of this shit saves money.
the summary , and so so many other /.ers, claim they do this stuff to save money.
it doesnt save money. stop lying.
if you do something for the thrill of doing it, then just fucking admit it. dont lie about it and claim that its somehow a wise economic decision or that you did it out of necessity.
And this, dear teenagers, is what the word "hacker" means.
The part of this gimbal that is, well, the gimbal, is $440. his link: http://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-falcon-brushless-gimbal-p-1058.html
video photography? Is this the photography of video equipment? or is it taking photos of a video that is playing?
Or was the writer unable to use a dictionary and discover that the word that is to be used is Videography?
Tomorrow I am going on an Airplane Drive and hope to Eat some nice Beers later.
Finally after most of the video it showed how the shot looked like from the camera. What I noticed though was that it doesn't appear to smooth out yaw motion. Granted you have to turn it to aim, but it's twitchy. Since the pitch and roll have been well smoothed the yaw noise really stands out.
What it needs is a steadicam-like gimble that keeps it pointed in the same direction unless you intend to change direction.
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It's a great money saving tip for sure, but bolting an unmodified Foxtech Falcon camera stabiliser to a set of handles isn't really a DIY camera stabilization system. From the title I was hoping for something built from an arduino and some old hard drive actuators :)