Steadycam for £0 :)

[Jungle_Jim]

yep thats right when you are bored and its raining outside it is possible to knock up a steadycam for free using bits and bobs in the garage/house.

i based mine on this style design

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all i used was a monopod, put an exhaust clamp on the end, a weight off an old floating bookshelf secured with some jubilee clamps (it rests on the exhaust clamp) then for the horizontal bar i found my old steering wheel clamp worked perfectly lol the best thing is that is all the parts are easily removable so i didnt ruin my monopod in the process


excuse the s**t pics lol

 

[Spiezels]

Nice mate, will defo try one of these, been doing alot of filming recently using gibs, dolly's etc but nothing steady, good to have a play about.

 

[Jungle_Jim]

yeah its not very pretty but its was free lol in the really quick test i did it definately makes a difference. especially when walking it gives a much smoother gluide appearance and any movement there does happen to be is heavily reduced, meaning it looks more like just the camera placement rather than that heavy wobble and distortion you get from normal camera shake

 

[Remedi]

Awesome, cheers for sharing.

Gonna give it a crack sometime

 

[SharkyUK]

Genius! Great idea...