mike | 1 Dec 2011 | 400 Views | 2 Likes | 0 Dislikes

I Love YouTube: Chickenheads

We've been going camera-stabilization crazy over in the Film Lab for the past couple of weeks, breaking down different ways that new lo-budge film folks are solving the inherent unsteadiness of cameras when moved (especially the super funky wobbly DSLRs). You've got your Fig Rig, which is like driving a bus across a set, you've got your Jib Arm (check back soon for the vid) which uses 80 lbs of weight across a 9' bar to stabilize everything, and you have your poor, aching shoulders. Weird that the best stabilizer on earth is a bird's neck and something called the "vestibulo-ocular reflex":

Unfortunately, our ability to exploit that natural skill for our filmmaking gain is currently problematic:

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