You can thank this invention for all your shaky homes videos for the last 30 years of camcorders. Once Hollywood seen this tool, they would never allow the mass consumer to have access to it. Basically even in 2022 you need a mortgage to get any where near the Tiffen cinema line Steadicams. This technology should be available to everyone but sadly it was deemed "PRO ONLY" right from the onset. We finally got gimbals and some onboard stabilization on camcorders and some DSLR's but they don't come close to a real Steadicam rig.
@Superb Media Content Creator You proved my point to a T, imagine if Nikola Tesla told the world to F_U with his AC Induction motor and transmission line technology the world today would look very different would it not? Because he wanted to change the world you and I both live a very different life than living under darkness as that was Edison's plan to keep power lines only for the people at the top...Thank God Tesla was not fool and gave the world a gift. The Steadicam is a 19th century trick as Brown put it, the only reason why it was kept out of the mass public was simply due to Hollywood as this would allow them to continue to "Entertain the Masses" with a new way to shoot films as the action genre took off like a rocket once the Steadicam came in. The Rise of China has put an end to a lot of monopolies let's hope they continue this trend. Hollywood still has a lot of muscle over Camcorder technology, cameras, even lenses. Some products came out that Hollywood did not like so they went after them...Remember the DV Camcorders with the ability to Firewire out a signal without the macrovision protection, they got pulled out of the market immediately as soon as they hit the market. Many people were using them to transfer Analog video through the camera out via Firewire, that's what I was using them for A great feature that was pulled due to Hollywood. One company never got back their market share on Camcorders after they released Camcorders with those features.
Well, there were handheld stabilizers like Steadicam Merlin, Glidecam and the like. Not as good as proper Steadicam rig, but definitely steadier than handheld if you are willing to put some training into it.
@@innokentyvetkin6880 Yes I think for me the biggest issue is why was this technology kept only in the industrial side of cameras? It seems right from its inception that indeed Hollywood wanted to protect this thing, remember Garret Brown was instructed by and coached by Tiffen to have them patent the licence. It was Tiffen who actually took the early Stedicam and improved it by adding the dual springs and the most crucial parts the pulleys on the top and bottom sections. Many people don’t realize that that’s why the licence for the Steadicam is still going 40 years later because they keep protecting it. Not even the Chinese or Japanese ever dared to copy or improve it and they had decades to do it very easily and also make it 10 ten times better by now. If what was done to Steadicam was done to automobiles early on we would still not have left the 1920’s in Automobile technology. It’s over now anyways with the gimbal technology availability to the mass consumers. Don’t forget that even gimbals we’re already around in the 1970’s, the Racer scene in Star Was a Stedicam with electronic gimbals setup. So all this tech is 40 years old now just came down because someone finally woke up and seen the light “We can make billions selling to the mass consumer”. It was no accident that before Apple started catering and selling to the mass consumers that they had to ditch the Pro users off their systems, everything they did was designed so the Pros would leave as this way Apple could refresh their products almost every year without the interference of the Pro users complaining. The butchering of Final Cut, Cutting off Motu, end of life for Cinema products such as Shake compositor that was a clear message to the Pro users to GTFO.
Garrett Brown is a God
What a master
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You can thank this invention for all your shaky homes videos for the last 30 years of camcorders. Once Hollywood seen this tool, they would never allow the mass consumer to have access to it. Basically even in 2022 you need a mortgage to get any where near the Tiffen cinema line Steadicams. This technology should be available to everyone but sadly it was deemed "PRO ONLY" right from the onset. We finally got gimbals and some onboard stabilization on camcorders and some DSLR's but they don't come close to a real Steadicam rig.
@Superb Media Content Creator You proved my point to a T, imagine if Nikola Tesla told the world to F_U with his AC Induction motor and transmission line technology the world today would look very different would it not? Because he wanted to change the world you and I both live a very different life than living under darkness as that was Edison's plan to keep power lines only for the people at the top...Thank God Tesla was not fool and gave the world a gift. The Steadicam is a 19th century trick as Brown put it, the only reason why it was kept out of the mass public was simply due to Hollywood as this would allow them to continue to "Entertain the Masses" with a new way to shoot films as the action genre took off like a rocket once the Steadicam came in. The Rise of China has put an end to a lot of monopolies let's hope they continue this trend. Hollywood still has a lot of muscle over Camcorder technology, cameras, even lenses. Some products came out that Hollywood did not like so they went after them...Remember the DV Camcorders with the ability to Firewire out a signal without the macrovision protection, they got pulled out of the market immediately as soon as they hit the market. Many people were using them to transfer Analog video through the camera out via Firewire, that's what I was using them for
A great feature that was pulled due to Hollywood. One company never got back their market share on Camcorders after they released Camcorders with those features.
Well, there were handheld stabilizers like Steadicam Merlin, Glidecam and the like. Not as good as proper Steadicam rig, but definitely steadier than handheld if you are willing to put some training into it.
@@innokentyvetkin6880 Yes I think for me the biggest issue is why was this technology kept only in the industrial side of cameras? It seems right from its inception that indeed Hollywood wanted to protect this thing, remember Garret Brown was instructed by and coached by Tiffen to have them patent the licence. It was Tiffen who actually took the early Stedicam and improved it by adding the dual springs and the most crucial parts the pulleys on the top and bottom sections. Many people don’t realize that that’s why the licence for the Steadicam is still going 40 years later because they keep protecting it. Not even the Chinese or Japanese ever dared to copy or improve it and they had decades to do it very easily and also make it 10 ten times better by now. If what was done to Steadicam was done to automobiles early on we would still not have left the 1920’s in Automobile technology. It’s over now anyways with the gimbal technology availability to the mass consumers. Don’t forget that even gimbals we’re already around in the 1970’s, the Racer scene in Star Was a Stedicam with electronic gimbals setup. So all this tech is 40 years old now just came down because someone finally woke up and seen the light “We can make billions selling to the mass consumer”. It was no accident that before Apple started catering and selling to the mass consumers that they had to ditch the Pro users off their systems, everything they did was designed so the Pros would leave as this way Apple could refresh their products almost every year without the interference of the Pro users complaining. The butchering of Final Cut, Cutting off Motu, end of life for Cinema products such as Shake compositor that was a clear message to the Pro users to GTFO.
"That started a 3 month....effort to make....this ridiculous object."
Hey, as long as it does what the individual wants it to do, who cares?
Read Alice in Wonderland since to stay in the same place you need to run. The clock is always running!