SteadyCam
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Published on October 16, 2011
Description
Camera stabilizer for small, light weight video cameras.
Steadycams are not easy to use if you don't understand the principles and set them up properly. Visit this page to get a great overview of steadycams.
youtube.com/watch?v=S3PgqKF6ugY&feature=related
To trim weight fore and aft, move camera back and forward in head slot.
To trim left and right, move counter weight shaft in base left or right.
To adjust fall time (see video) move gimbal up or down main shaft
Steadycams are not easy to use if you don't understand the principles and set them up properly. Visit this page to get a great overview of steadycams.
youtube.com/watch?v=S3PgqKF6ugY&feature=related
To trim weight fore and aft, move camera back and forward in head slot.
To trim left and right, move counter weight shaft in base left or right.
To adjust fall time (see video) move gimbal up or down main shaft
Instructions
Requires 55cm of 8mm threaded rod,
20cm of 6mm threaded rod,
4 x 8mm nylok nuts,
2 x 8mm butterfly nuts (or standard nuts)
2 x 6mm nuts,
1 x 6mm spring washer,
2 x Counter weights (I happened upon a metal doorstop with a 6mm thread that works beautifully but a bunch of washers could be employed as easily (requires more nuts))
The Gimbal comprises a 22mm scate board bearing pressed into the Gimbal centre printed part. Gimbal inner (red in photos) pivots on homemade grub screws that go into the Gimbal centre part. Then Gimbal outer screwed to Gimbal inner.
Base supports counter weights using the 6mm rod.
blah de blah etc.... see photos
Not included in the files is the Handle attached to the Gimbal Outer part.
I am using a hacked Pelicase handle so the Gimbal Outer is designed to use this part.
20cm of 6mm threaded rod,
4 x 8mm nylok nuts,
2 x 8mm butterfly nuts (or standard nuts)
2 x 6mm nuts,
1 x 6mm spring washer,
2 x Counter weights (I happened upon a metal doorstop with a 6mm thread that works beautifully but a bunch of washers could be employed as easily (requires more nuts))
The Gimbal comprises a 22mm scate board bearing pressed into the Gimbal centre printed part. Gimbal inner (red in photos) pivots on homemade grub screws that go into the Gimbal centre part. Then Gimbal outer screwed to Gimbal inner.
Base supports counter weights using the 6mm rod.
blah de blah etc.... see photos
Not included in the files is the Handle attached to the Gimbal Outer part.
I am using a hacked Pelicase handle so the Gimbal Outer is designed to use this part.
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I just printed out the parts for this and I don't completely understand how the gimbal goes together. What exactly do you mean by homemade grub screws? Would it be possible to add a picture with the outer ring removed? Thanks.
Ok, I'm assuming for home made grub screws you just chopped off the heads of a couple M4 screws and cut a slot in them. What I still can't figure out is where they go. You have two holes in GimbalCenter, which the grub screws probably thread into. In that case they must spin freely in the two holes in GimbalInner. But GimbalInner only has one pair of holes. If I'm doing the same thing with scews freely spinning in the holes of GimbalOuter and threaded into GimbalInner, where do they go on GimbalInner? It seems like there should be a second pair of holes.