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Steadicam for the People

I attended the CINEGEAR EXPO this past weekend to learn the latest buzz about video cameras, formats, lighting, sound and all that good stuff. This biggest thing that I felt I should share was how TIFFEN (a lens filter company) figured out how to create an amazing Steadicam rig for small-yet-mighty new camcorders. Of course you know (and experience) how technology makes things smaller and powerful — so TIFFEN and makers of small HD camcorders from Apple to GoPro are all simply ahead of the curve.

Say goodbye to shakey-cam footage from your tiny HD video powerhouse, say hello to STEADICAM SMOOTHEE by Tiffen steadicam.com/smoothee_home.html. Thing will set you back $180 bones and individual attachments for the iPhone, Flip Mino HD and GoPro camcorders run about $25 a pop. I shot this video with my iPhone 3GS and you can see what the rig looks like as there is a gentleman doing the same thing I am - he's early on in the video wearing a white jacket, blue t-shirt and has his white iPhone4 on the rig.

It supports up to 5 lbs. and as you can see from the video, not bad, not bad at all. As camcorders get smaller and smaller and more and more powerful - something like this is becoming more and more relevant and I definitely want one.

Okay, I lied, there is one more thing I thought was cool buuuut the Jury is still out on this one. I introduce to you SONY's answer to full-frame DSLR videography (drum roll) the NEX-fs100 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadcastcameras/cat-nxcam/product-NEXFS100UK/.

This bad boy shoots SUPER35 which means that it shoots 1920x1080 HD however the pixels are almost 4 times larger than the pixels on a Canon 5D MarkII. Larger pixels means when shooting motion - literally like a quick pan, the larger pixels can contain more photons thus more information. The SONY spokesperson said to think of pixels as a bucket and the larger the bucket the more photons can be collected by the sensor. I watched a short video created with the NEX-fs100 and I'm sorry to report I wasn't too impressed. It looked good but it looked very VIDEOEY if you know what I mean. One thing I love about the Canon 7D is that the video, especially at 24p looks less videoey and more Cinematic. Most of us don't want "reality" in our content, we want it to be hyper-real, more cinematic. Nevertheless the SONY NEX-fs100 is $5,000 without lenses and you can use any kind of lens on it. So if you want "reality" and a great full-frame camcorder that ISN'T a DSLR then this could be the winner for you.