Steadicam’s new Volt electronic smartphone stabiliser keeps working even when the batteries die

Steadicam, the devices famous for stabilising Hollywood’s footage for decades, are refocusing their efforts towards phones. Tiffen, Steadicam’s owners, have just announced the Steadicam Volt. Taking square aim at the influx of motorised handheld gimbals launched recently, the Volt works a little differently. It also offers advantages over those motorised gimbals we’ve come to know. […]

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This guy tries to emulate a beer commercial and drops a $70,000 camera at CineGear Expo

The last thing you want to do when testing out some equipment, especially when surrounded by your peers at the CineGear expo, is to drop a $70,000 Arri Alexa XT, but that’s exactly what one person did while checking out the NBStabilizer rig recently. A number of social media commentators are putting this down to user error, letting the […]

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