{"id":29477,"date":"2012-06-21T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=29477"},"modified":"2012-06-21T05:55:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T21:55:24","slug":"meeting-with-steadicam-inventor-garrett-brown-and-his-merlin-2-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/meeting-with-steadicam-inventor-garrett-brown-and-his-merlin-2-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Steadicam Inventor Garrett Brown and his Merlin 2 (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is pure luck that I ran into Garrett Brown<\/a> at BroadcastAsia 2012 yesterday. He is the inventor of Steadicam. FYI, if you seen how actors\/actresses can run in a movie with the camera following them smoothly, you need to thanks Garrett for his invention.<\/p>\n

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If you have seen the running and training sequences in the movie, Rocky (by Sylvester Stallone), you have already seen the work of Steadicam.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, it was pure luck that I got to meet him. I was capturing some images of the Steadicam setup by his team and posting some questions.<\/p>\n

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I was getting interested in the Steadicam Smoothee as it was meant for small phone usage.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the device is made in such a simple way that anyone will be able to balance it. I was getting interested in the way it works (see below).<\/p>\n

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It was then that Garrett came back to the booth and one things lead to another, we started talking about the Steadicam Merlin and the Merlin 2 and I showed him one “stabilizer” or “steadicam” that I bought online. He was speechless at the poor quality of it. And he quickly showed me how his Merlin 2 is much better (I can vouch for that) by mounting my Canon EOS 7D onto it.<\/p>\n

Here is a video showing how he does the setup in under 4 minutes. Amazing.<\/p>\n