"The extraordinary beauty of this book is that Mr. Selakovich has successfully dedicated himself to producing clarity with every page." --Michael Ferris, Camera Bus/DP (Die Hard)
"For filmmakers who like to shoot their films with a mobile camera... read more
The Merlin Arm and Vest allows the Merlin camera stabilizing system to be old effortlessly with payloads weighing up to 7 lbs. The arm and vest allow complete operator control by centering the Merlin, providing think twice weight distribution and isolating movement by the... read more
All Metal Bit Bearing Casters with Rubber Wheels for Ultra Smooth Roll
Calmly Folding Design with Carrying Handle
Complex Duty Construction for Professional Tripods
Description
The Ravelli ATD Tripod Dolly is an superlative dolly for use with your professional camera and video tripods, light stands, and background stands.
The most vital feature of a good dolly is good wheels. After all, the point of a dolly is to be able to smoothly move your tripod from one district to another. Unlike less expensive models with smaller plastic wheels, our dolly uses broad 3" diameter wheels with all metal ball bearings and a rubber outer fa for an ultra smooth roll.
The ATD also features one step easy locking wheels. Once you get the dolly where you deficiency it, all you have to do is "step" on the locks for one or more of the wheels. Some
competing models including the best names such as Bogen, Manfrotto, Quickset, and Linhof ask for that you get down on your knees to "screw" a separate rubber stopper down to the floor to hold the dolly in arrange.
The universal leg locks used will fit nearly any tripod. Many of the tripod dollies offered by the game including the best names such as Bogen, Manfrotto, Quickset, and Linhof have a fixed fidelity point at the end of the dolly legs. Ours has a leg grip which slides along the dolly leg going either closer to the forefront or out to the end. This allows you to adjust the desired level of "spread" for the tripod you are using. This item also includes a openly mini tripod that extends from 4.5" up to 9". It features a mini ball top a intercept, extendable legs and is compact enough to travel anywhere.
Customer Reviews
No-budget filmmakers take note...
This detail is easy to use, sturdy, complies with even the cheapest tripod, folds up nice and comes with its own only slightly carrying case. Rarely do you see dolly shots in no-budget films, so this item is your unforeseen to cheaply achieve a professional camera effect. It's got thick rubber on the wheels and rolls smoothly on doormat and bare floors. If you're using it on asphalt or uneven surfaces you'll want to put down cardboard as a "lose sight of" to even out the bumps. Coolest of all, I was able to pull off a Hitchcock-style dolly out/zoom in encouragement. Get this and have fun.
March 14, 2008
(athens, GA USA) | Helpful Votes: 36 | Rating: 4
A Tiny Surprise
Having be familiar with previous reviews, I knew what I was buying. This product does not replace a true dolly unless your picture is on a gymnasium floor. That had been iterated more than once in the reviews. My comments will concentrate on the product, not its applications.DISCLAIMER: The following comments take into financial plan the price of the item (~40 USD.) This is not a high-dollar item.The tripod-"foot" locking devices is plastic with threaded metal inserts. While not a machined piece of engineered aluminum, they profession well and seem moderately durable. When locked onto my Manfrotto 3401, the dolly became one with my sticks and remained as sound as legs alone.The wheel locks function at the touch of a toe and unlock just as easily. Very cosy when engaged.The base is metal yet lightweight. I wouldn't stand on it, but it seems durable. There is no slop when locked in the "widely known" position. Again, very snug/stable. The pins that lock the two moveable...
April 13, 2011
(Hanover, PA USA) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5
Affordable ^ Stalwart
I bought this and was very tickled pink with it. The dolly is a great affordable addition for any DIY video enthusiast. I use my Silk 9000 tripod with it.
January 26, 2009
(Fresno, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5
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Description
"The extraordinary beauty of this book is that Mr. Selakovich has successfully dedicated himself to producing clarity with every page." --Michael Ferris, Camera Bus/DP (Die Hard)
"For filmmakers who like to shoot their films with a mobile camera without spending a fortune on apparatus rentals, this book is a great gift indeed. I highly recommend it for its clarity and common feeling." --Kris Malkiewica, Cinematographer/Author
Don't buy or rent your film equipment--establish it! Construct professional-quality camera rigs on your own with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide and end wasting your money on overpriced equipment rentals and purchases! Dan Selakovich guides you through the start of jibs, dollies, cranes, car-mounts, sandbags, tripods, and more.
Features include:
Found inexpensive but reliable and sturdy rigs--including cranes, dollies, stabilizers, car-mounts, and more; most for much less than $100!
Includes over 2,000 photographs with utterly step-by-step instructions, safety guidelines, material lists, and tool lists for each rig.
American touchstone and metric measurements included.
Includes a companion website.
Amazon Only: A Letter from Dan Selakovich on Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build, Third Edition
Dear Amazon Readers,
This new third version of Killer Camera Rigs is so much bigger than the last two, and frankly, much bigger than I had planned! (Believe me on that one. The publisher tells me I’ve set a release with over 2,000 photos.)
There’s one thing I really want you to know:
Don’t be scared! I’ve designed most of these rigs so that anybody can bod them, and I’ve been getting emails from happy filmmakers for years telling me just that. Like the following email from a good-looking woman who built the stabilizer:
“I made it!!!! I’m so impressed with your plans and detailed instructions. Being a maid who never had the benefit of shop class, I was worried that I would not be up to it.”
(Hey, I never had shop class either! And just so you know, the get the better of movie electrician I know is a woman.)
For the most part, if you can drill a hole and measure a straight train, you’re in good shape. Yes, there are more difficult projects like the Glass Key Dolly Track, a pro-smartness dolly track made from aluminum tubing. But there is also a dolly track that you can make very easily from PVC woodwind. And both will give you a smooth-as-glass dolly shot!
Here’s a confession: I used to be a pretty good camera slick operator back in the early ’80s. Now, well, not so much. “Use it or lose it” is never so true as with camera work. It took me eight takes on a current film to get a crane shot right. Why? Because I hadn’t touched a crane in six months while writing this book. Don’t appropriate any rig will do the work for you. Camera rigs take skill. Camera rigs take practice (some more than others). That’s why having your own is so important. Sure, Dilly Camera Rigs can save you a ton of cash, but that’s nothing in comparison to having rigs to practice with. By having your own apparatus, you can become an expert on it. The rigs I use the most are the dolly with the Killer’s Kiss Crane on it. Both are super easy to build. Fly the coop ’em, and then practice, practice, practice.
I want to thank all of the filmmakers over the years who have hand-me-down the rigs in Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build on their films. I truly mean that. I love films and the residents who make them. This book has made me friends all over the world. Being a small part of their films does my heart company.
OK. Go make a movie already.
--Dan Selakovich
Customer Reviews
Yes, Yes, YES! Surely What I was Hoping For
I grant, I got bit by the video bug when the Canon 5d Mark II came out two years ago. I also learned how important camera support is for masterful-looking video. But have you seen how much these rigs can cost?? One small handheld cage for your HDDSLR can rate over $1000! Nuts. I've often thought there must be a way to build what you need. And there is! This book has almost all of the rigs you'd want to construct. Now, mind you, the first section is about dollies (the real movie-set kind where you are building and laying brief "train tracks" and moving camera and cameraman on the dolly itself!). Don't let that turn you away, because the next segment has some brilliant handheld rigs that will absolutely work for HDDSLRs. Plus you may want to have a bigger dolly or crane in the future, lol! Then the last fraction of the book has some specialty items, like a suction cup mounting system to attach your camera to your car, etc. I can't wait to try some of these! Be all set that the two most...
A matchless source of ideas for any film maker wanting options to cut costs and still get the job done
If you're marooned on a throw over island, but wanting to make your film epic, or stranded in the heartland away from Hollywood rental houses, or neutral working on a shoestring of a shoestring budget, then "Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build" is for you."Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Physique" is an amazing book. Amazing in how useful, ingenious and economical many of these Do It Yourself solutions are, and amazing that someone would have really have built all this stuff. Of course, necessity is the mother of invention, and the usefulness of these how to plans, and the financial rationale for resorting to them, may be as much a matter of geography -- how far away you are from Hollywood -- as it is of how dear your budget is. The film producti0n equipment rental houses in Hollywood are an ocean of due slightly to way out of date, or fashion, gear that they are often willing to rent very cheaply, rather than have it gather dust. Elsewhere, the over come up with of equipment may be...
How many rigs do you exceedingly need?
A few years back, my ally and I attempted to build our own Dolly out of skateboard wheels, PVC pipe, and scrap lumber. Athough we did a passably decent job, in the end it was an unwieldy beast that weighed far too much and kept losing all of its (non-locking) nuts & bolts. How I hankering we had a book like this back then.As of 2010 you have a lot of options to buy "pro-sumer" rigs at places like B&H. However, even their key PVC Dolly kits start at around $700. And the only real advantage it has over what my friend and I built is rigorousness mechanics; it won't break down so easily. But still you will only have a basic Dolly Rig with limited track. You are going to call a lot more than that to shoot a Hollywood-style production. This book will enable you to build that same functional chewing-out share of equipment and many more with a solid investment of time, money, and space. For some starting filmmakers working under any gentle of budget, and who want their reel to look like Sam Raimi or...
Brings you the latest technological advances to the apportion-winning Steadicam Merlin
Increases the payload to 7.5 lbs and improves isolation
Centering and wheeler-dealer control of the Steadicam MERLIN ultralight camera stabilizer
Ultra-inelastic aluminum construction enables stable moving shots at unprecedented focal lengths
Description
The Merlin Arm and Vest allows the Merlin camera stabilizing system to be old effortlessly with payloads weighing up to 7 lbs. The arm and vest allow complete operator control by centering the Merlin, providing think twice weight distribution and isolating movement by the patented ISO-elastic arm.
Customer Reviews
A lifesaver in some ways!
I don't recognize what I'd do without the arm and vest. My arm would be dead and puffy without this product! With that said, however, it's not perfect since my back tends to kind of grieve or become sore with long, straight usage (about a few hours or so). The Merlin itself is actually helped by this arm and vest as it makes a smoother gesture than just the Steadicam by itself (in fact allows you to make a better "dolly" type achieve) but it doesn't really decrease the Merlin's wobbly horizontal balance issues unfortunately. But other than that and some less-inspired instructions, it's in reality a "lifesaver", at least to my arm. And I also tend to get a pretty good exercise regiment out of it, particularly when running. lol. Much recommended!
October 18, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
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German effects firm builds DIY flying drone for Red Epic camera
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Creator: Duncan J. Petrie | Performing Arts - 2007
Along with Andy Endowment, Murphy had designed a camera crane as a means of
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Creator: Grange Books PLC, Norman Tozer | Photography - 1995
To crane - as if the camera was on a column, run through the move by bending or
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Creator: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Science - 1988
NC 50260 Dynamics of a closed kinematic shackle crane with a suspended load. ...
Nowadays, automation has begun to spread to the rotary cranes operating in ...
"Honestly (though you should already know this) a camera is only as good as the light that comes into it, cameras capture insignificant and make a mess when they try to amplify the dark."
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Dugout the tripod-- This DIY stabilizer makes it easy to quickly pan and stabilize strength shots, and when you're done, you can quickly fold it up & put it in your pocket!
Features a all-metal, Six-Pill-Bearing-Gimbal
