New Camera Stabilizing Systems Is Amazing

Ricky302 said:
How are they getting the camera to 'follow' the action?
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If you notice, there's another guy holding an RC controller with a 7" LCD clamped to the carry handle, he's the one actually telling the gimbal where to point the camera.
 
Sly said:
If you notice, there's another guy holding an RC controller with a 7" LCD clamped to the carry handle, he's the one actually telling the gimbal where to point the camera.
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Cheers! that makes sense, a motorised stabilised gimbal that's remotely controlled.
 
Well, like i said, it's what's been on RC gear for a while now, tho it didn't get heavily commercialized until recently.

This is what's used in RC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WJJAmefkw

Don't know the price of the hardware, but the control board is under $400.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5SSkkBgAvQ

This one is $8,000.00 including the octocopter (camera not included)

If you're going cheap, you can hook up a basic gimbal to your flight controller. Not as good, but this was what they were originally made for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Yr1VD3G1U
 
Sly said:
This is what's used in RC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WJJAmefkw
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IMO that example shows a few disadvantages:
1. Bumpier more imprecise movement
2. Noisy
3. Dangerous (don't get those blades too close to an actor!!!)
4. Reliability (I wouldn't trust putting an expensive camera on one, anyway)
5. Complexity, especially for maneuvers like dynamically fixing to moving points and flying off, as demonstrated in that taxi close-up scene... it would likely take extra gear and programming to get a similar result

...just off the top of my head... the movie industry is known to do what works best, and these RC methods are of course used as well, but they are still a little more specialized in their applications. Also, cost of as advanced gimble is of very little concern in the grand scheme of things.

Still, I do think flying cameras are going to be used more and more as that tech improves, but there's also some treatments you just gotta be a bit more hands-on with to get the right effect.
 
...it's still frickin cool though, I must add
 
nothing new....
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Phoenix333 said:
Congratulations! You have discovered the formula for: BIRD HEAD. You can now do what avians have been doing for millions of years prior to your being a blip on the evolutionary map. :p
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I'll wait till next version. Bird heads have been questionable the last couple years....

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westrock2000 said:
I'll wait till next version. Bird heads have been questionable the last couple years....

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Why would you post something like that? You might as well dress up like Hitler, crash a bar mitzvah, and hand out pictures of the mass graves at Auschwitz. That's about how it makes me feel looking at that.
 
Ricky302 said:
How are they getting the camera to 'follow' the action?
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one person is just holding the stabilizing contraption, another person is remotely controlling where the camera points.


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i hope they come up with some way of recording the of the shell stabilizer's jitters to use in digitally cropping the video (other than inertial). maybe with a control dot visible by another camera in the same mechanism.

so it doesnt just neutralize axis rotation, but also inertial movements.
 
Youn said:
...it's still frickin cool though, I must add
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Yeah, it's the same tech, but specialized. You need a gimbal on the RC because if you were to hardmount a camera, 90% of the time, you'd be staring at the ground. In these conditions where you have the helicopter pointing at the ground to move forward, and then pointing at the sky to stop, it's the perfect environment to develop self stabilized gimbals. Without the gimbals, you get this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuMBa0eVS0

Which is pretty darn awesome, but would probably make your passenger car sick. The point is, much of the R&D is already done. The programming and chipsets, are open source. It's just a matter of getting high quality sensors, faster CPUs, and high end motors. If you don't want to build your own, you can get one of these.

The ZenMuse. A high end multirotor gimbal $3,500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6TWct7VqCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0pZYa8fayI

Nowhere near 15k.
 
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