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Topic: Smootharm - Leigh's commercial product. (Read 5506 times)
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Jon Gordon
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Jay, you are evil. I read your comment before watching the video -- and I couldn't stop looking at the dog's backend!
Leigh, Looks pretty good. Nice and low.
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Jay Truesdale
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It was low and smooth - good perspective. I'd like to see how it handles traveling with a little more speed, perhaps panning with or around the subject...
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Leigh Wanstead
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Hi Jon, Thanks The thing I really like in that video is that I get nice gold color of the dog's hair. If I shot around 10am, the dog hair color was completely flooded with white. Only at around 5pm, I can get nice gold color with green background color. Regards Leigh Jay, you are evil. I read your comment before watching the video -- and I couldn't stop looking at the dog's backend!
Leigh, Looks pretty good. Nice and low.
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Charles King
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Hi Leigh. Listen, you have to start filming something different than just the same old scenerio all the time. You have to be a little more creative in demostrating your system. I've told you before look at how the pro's do it and get some ideas from thier demos. This will help in getting people interested in watching them and seeing how your product behaves. If you keep showing more or less the same one liner, it will bore people and they will loose interest. Just a friendly advice in the world of stabilizing sharks. You have add something different. Do different shots, not just walking in a line. Put the rig to the test. I want to see booming, panning, maybe a dutch roll, passing your subject or cutting in front of him as he goes by. Things like that. If you keep going at the rate you're going people will just loose interest; if they havn't already. Don't take this hard but all your shots are the same to me. Maybe it's just me but thst's how I feel. I like to see you promote your product but at this rate you are just swimming in the pool of hungry sharks. Now where have I heard that before guys  |
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Leigh Wanstead
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Hi Charles, Thanks for the comments. The video I posted is quite different from what I have not posted before. If you watched the videos, you might notice that the camera lense was around 20cm height from the ground which was said to be difficult shot in some training video at camera weight around 6kg. Each video takes me huge amount of time to practise to make it perfect and it is not to say if I wish today, I will get the shot tomorrow. Someone said that it might take around 6 years to be good at the stabilizer and for me now just less than three years which I consider it is quite big achivement. I just want to do it right.  Regards Leigh |
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Charles King
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Than I would suggest you get a trained operator to test your equipment out if this is the case. Than you will get a real sense of how your system holds up behind a professional operator. Just a tip my friend.
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Leigh Wanstead
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Hi Charles, Thanks for the tip. I prefer doing myself. Regards Leigh Than I would suggest you get a trained operator to test your equipment out if this is the case. Than you will get a real sense of how your system holds up behind a professional operator. Just a tip my friend.
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Charles King
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Hi Charles, Thanks for the tip. I prefer doing myself. Regards Leigh Than I would suggest you get a trained operator to test your equipment out if this is the case. Than you will get a real sense of how your system holds up behind a professional operator. Just a tip my friend.
Well Leigh, that was not the point of my suggesting that you let a pro do your demos but that is your decision. Good luck. |
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Leigh Wanstead
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Hi Charles, By your request, test video was shot this morning. As usual, there is no software stabilizer effect applied to the video. No wheelchair/stegway assistant whatever. Just simply a single shot. The camera is jvc gy-dv5000u camera. Windows media format screen size 320x240 http://www.smootharm.com/clip/2006_9_2/www.smootharm.com.2006_9_2_320_240.wmvFile size around 8mb. Big file size of the same clip come later as I am busy uploading the files. Regards Leigh Hi Leigh. Do different shots, not just walking in a line. Put the rig to the test. I want to see booming, panning, maybe a dutch roll, passing your subject or cutting in front of him as he goes by. Things like that. If you keep going at the rate you're going people will just loose interest; if they havn't already. Don't take this hard but all your shots are the same to me. Maybe it's just me but thst's how I feel. I like to see you promote your product but at this rate you are just swimming in the pool of hungry sharks. Now where have I heard that before guys |
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Wade Francom
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Leigh, just a thought on your product...
One of the major drawbacks that I see is that it has no capabilities for a monitor on the sled.
You should design a bracket that clips right to the top of the spring post (where the spring attaches at the top) for a monitor that would extend out in front of the operators point of view. You could run the wiring down the post, and over to the sled by way of the swing-arm....or just offer the bracket, and let the future operator decide how to engineer the signal (wirelessly would be the simplest, in this case).
A monitor bracket would be a cheap thing for you to make, and excellent addition for the rig, and would greatly increase the overall value of your product.
Just a thought....
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