The Glidecam V-25 Review

[Charles King]

Well guys. The review is finally up. Hope you enjoy it. BTW, I'd like to thank Pascal, David Stevens; of Glidecam, and Job for their help and time they took to assisst me in answering many nagging questions.  They are really nice gentlemen . Thanks guys.

[Alan Dague-Greene]

Nice review, very thorough. Although I'm far from being in the market for a commercial rig, this review gave me a lot of good points to think about while building my second one. Thanks, Charles!

Alan

[Charles King]

Thanks. Glad you like it.

[Erik Brul]

Great review Charles. Can not add anything extra on this one. Have flown about a total of 20 minutes with the Rig last friday & monday.. so
I can just underscribe your story completely.

rgds, Erik

[Charles King]

'Underscribe*? could you explain what you mean? BTW, thanks.

[Erik Brul]

Or underline your review... or just agree with your review.. hey, i'm from Holland so there can always be some writing errors in english.
Pls forgive me for that

Regards, Erik

[Charles King]

No problem Brul. Your thoughts will probably be different but that's good because it means every operator or indivdual have different views on the same thing. That's why ther are so many choices of stabilizers out there. Everybody has different needs.

[Mike Carolan]

Well done Charles..once again great informative review.Thanks for all the pictures..its like having been there.Mike

[Charles King]

Nice to hear Mike. It was definately an experience. Hope you are well.

[EricCorriveau]

Great great review. This is really the first time where a thorough description of the V-25 is available, thanks to Charles. I was surprised to see the they finally added some kind of adjustment mechanism for the arm-to-vest connector.
For a while, I was considering investing in a "semi-pro" rig. Now that I know more about it, I'm considering investing in a V-25. I mainly operates DSR-300 cameras, so it could be a great choice.

Are they still talking about $7K price tag ?

Eric

[Charles King]

Are they still talking about $7K price tag ?

Eric

Around 8000 euros, that should be right if the exchange rate hasn't changed. THey will be offering the rig for that price until they have sold 100 ubits. After that the price will jump to 10,000 euros. They've already sold 35 units already. Maybe a little more since the Expo. So get it while the price is good.

[Job Scholtze]

Well, i just received my own V25 and finally had the time for a long test drive. I posted this already on the steadiforum, here is a copy of it.

Well, i had my test day today with the just received V25. I tried the Flyer on the IBC and didn't had the change to test the V25. Mostly because i was flying my own Gold rig there, but also becose of Pascal. (He didn't want to let go of it) So after unpacking the stuff, i noticed that dockingbracket. HUGE improvement with the demo one. Easy for balance too. The only camera i had here was the Sony BVW 400 with an old heavy wide angle lens. I use AB for my gold so i used 3 on the rig. One behind Monitor and the other two on the rig. The arm had to be on 4 and you can go to 5 and a halve. DAMN, that arm is smoooooooth. Easy to keep it on level, very little force for booming up and down. I even did te slow creepy shots with no problem. Its not a big rig, but very very impressive. I changed the monitorbracket to the lowersection of the post. No problems there either. To be honest, i don't feel any difference with the flyer i flew on the ibc. So i don't understand all the hassle about it. This rig is a knock out. Te only thing i am gonna change in the future is the socketblock option, but thats only because of being used to my own vest. That little J-box is great. Plenty of options there. The gimbal?, well, its the baby gold i would say. Easy dynamic balance, smooth and even under fully load i don't feel differences.
The vest could use an extra padding in the lower section, thats something i am gonna change probably.

Job

[Eran Dan]

hello there charce or any one.
how long is it take to asamble the glide v25 all together with the camera and all the ballance needs?
2. can I fly any today video camera on it with no prob?
thanks
Eran
 www.g-crane.com

[Charles King]

hello there charce or any one.
how long is it take to asamble the glide v25 all together with the camera and all the ballance needs?
2. can I fly any today video camera on it with no prob?
thanks
Eran
 www.g-crane.com

Hi Eran. I know you meant to spell my name like this Charles and not Charce.

When I tested the V25 it was fully assembled but I don't think it would be that difficult. Maybe Job can verify this for you.

You can fly any camera up to 13kg with this system. Even today smaller 16mm film cameras are a breeze.

[Eran Dan]

charles: sorry for the mispelling of you name  // 
so in this case what do I need the gold system or any havier stabilizers? maybe Job Shuelz will have the answer cause he have the gold series too. what camera you fly on the gold that you can't fly on the v25?
Eran