My friends and I just purchased a Glidecam V-20 to use with a Panasonic DVCPro. The camera is about 20 lbs with battery and lens and all. Any advice on operating techniques, things to avoid, etc, etc, would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to point out the seemingly obvious. Thanks a lot. --Scott

-- Scott Hellon (mrdir12@aol.com), February 06, 2003

Answers

Scott, although I am not familiar with Glidecam's stabilizers I have operated the Steadicam Elite series with a 35mm camera and a HD900 camera. I have also tried out Glidecam's newest stabilizer. When operating don't hold on to the sled hard. the hand that holds the sled is just there to keep the camera pointing strait. Be sure and bend your knees slightly and kind of lean back a little bit. I hope you have a good back. :-) My back is bad but I HAVE to operate if you know what I mean. With practice you will get better. Balance it right and just do the best you can trying to maintain the best fluidity of the camera. I hope this helps.

-- Josh Pickering (jr_pickering@hotmail.com), March 16, 2003.

I am going to purchase a Glidecam V-20, too. But I got no steadicam/glidecam experience at all! You said, the most important part is to balance the camera. How do I figure out, if my camera is really balanced? Thanks for any help!

Felix

-- Felix (Felix.E@gmx.de), June 14, 2003.

If the Glidecam manual is any good, it should explain it all to you. Your sled must always be slightly bottom heavy aiming for a 2-3 second drop time depending on your preference.

James - SteadicamJR.com

-- James (james@ilfteam.co.uk), July 04, 2003.

Any tips on operating a Glidecam V-0?

If the Glidecam manual is any good, it should explain it all to you. Your sled must always be slightly bottom heavy aiming for a 2-3 second drop time depending on your preference.

James - SteadicamJR.com

-- James (james@ilfteam.co.uk), July 04, 2003.