Steadicam Merlin w/Merlin Arm and Vest

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The Steadicam Merlin offers light, agile, seamless shooting for today's videographer. Ultra-light and ultra-compact, the Steadicam Merlin allows you to keep up with the action more easily than ever.

Designed by Garrett Brown, the inventor of the original Steadicam Jr, the Merlin is the next generation hand held Steadicam system. The Steadicam Merlin is half the weight and four times as stable as the JR. Yet, it can move as smoothly as the big $60,000 rigs used in Hollywood.

The Merlin let's you "fly" wherever the scene takes you-- up and down steps, indoors and outside, through crowds--almost anywhere, with precise, elegant control and ease. Its quick release mount lets you instantly swap camera connections between your Merlin and any tripod.

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$ 129.00/day*

 
GlideCam V20

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Stabilizes cameras 15 - 30 lbs, comes complete with vest, arm, LCD monitor, battery package.

$ 295.00/day*

 
Glidecam HD4000 Stabilizer System

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The Glidecam HD4000 is a lightweight, hand-held camcorder stabilizing system. This system is upgraded from the 4000 Pro and offers fine adjustments and an improved gimbal and balance system.

Camera stabilization systems like this one work to provide camera stability during movement for dynamic and subjective camera shots. It utilizes a balancing system that dampens the user's body movement, providing a smooth, floating moving image appearance usually achieved with more expensive equipment.

- Supports cameras weighing up to 10 pounds.

$ 59.00/day*

 
Glidecam HD2000 Stabilizer System

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The Glidecam HD2000 is a lightweight, hand-held camcorder stabilizing system. This system is upgraded from the 2000 Pro and offers fine adjustments and an improved gimbal and balance system.

Camera stabilization systems like this one work to provide camera stability during movement for dynamic and subjective camera shots. It utilizes a balancing system that dampens the user's body movement, providing a smooth, floating moving image appearance usually achieved with more expensive equipment.

- Supports cameras weighing up to 6 pounds.

$ 49.00/day*

 
GlideCam 4000 PRO Camcorder Stabilizing System

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The Glidecam 4000 Pro is newly redesigned. It not only allows super-smooth tracking shots panning tilting booming and running but also allows you to easily shoot fluid traveling shots from moving vehicles.

New features of this model are a no-tools telescoping center post, a sleek and lighter base which allows you to quickly attach and dynamically adjust the counterweight disks, a foam handle grip, a lighter gimbal with a more compact main bearing assembly, and a new yoke design.

- The 4000 Pro is 18" tall and supports any camcorder weighing from 4-10 pounds.

- Easy to set up and balance, they allow unrestricted booming and 360 degree panning.

- Offset handle grip is attached to a free-floating precision Gimbal, allowing hand movement up and down and side to side, thereby isolating unwanted hand interference from the camera. The up and down movement alleviates the bouncing pogo-type action associated with other systems whose handles can't move up and down.

- You can shoot upside-down, sideways, low near the ground, overhead and angled, as in a Dutch shot.

- The system's free floating, precision gimbal includes integrally shielded bearings, two of which are housed in the unique Offset Handle grip. These precision bearings create the super-smooth and pivotable connection between your arm and the unit's Central Support Post.

- Counterweights on the Base Platform can be quickly attached or adjusted while the system is resting in an upright position on its base.

- Camera platform moves back and forth and side to side, allowing quick adjustment of your camera's horizontal balance. Camera's vertical balance is adjusted by varying the amount of counterweight disks on the base platform. When balanced properly the camera floats, ready for you to move into action.

- For remote viewing, an optional LCD monitor can be attached to the mounting holes on the base platform.

- Can also be used as a Monopod.

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$ 49.00/day*

 
GlideCam 2000 PRO Camcorder Stabilizing System

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Imagine a world in balance. Imagine smoothness, freedom and grace. With the Glidecam 2000 PRO your camcorder floats, always balanced, isolated from your hand's undesirable motions. Now you are free to move with your camera panning, tilting, booming or running without any camera instability or shake. Lightweight, hand-held camcorder stabilizing systems allows you to shoot incredibly smooth and graceful shots, even while running up and down stairs or traveling over rugged terrain. And when it comes to normal shooting, like walking or moving the camera slowly around someone, the results are equally magical. Shot after shot, move after move, it delivers beautifully smooth and professional results. With the Glidecam 2000 Pro you no longer need a tripod or a dolly. All you need is your imagination!

- Supports cameras weighing up to 6 pounds

$ 39.00/day*

 
GlideCam Body-Pod

The Glidecam Body-Pod is a lightweight, rigid support system which, when used with the Glidecam 2000 Pro or 4000 Pro hand-held stabilizers, allows all the weight of the system to be supported by your body.

$ 25.00/day*

 
GlideCam Forearm Support Brace

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The Glidecam Forearm Support Brace distributes the weight of the system over your entire forearm. The weight of the system is supported evenly by Glidecam's exclusive and unique, exoskeletal forearm support brace. The brace not only provides you with cushioned comfort while shooting, but also eliminates torque, which would otherwise cause stress on your wrist. With the forearm brace, the Glidecam system becomes an extension of the human body for smooth and natural shooting. Works with both the Glidecam 2000 Pro and 4000 Pro stabilizers.

$ 25.00/day*

 
GlideCam Smooth Shooter

Glidecam's Smooth Shooter is a highly developed and well engineered yet economical camera support system designed to be used with either the Glidecam 2000 Pro or the Glidecam 4000 Pro. The Smooth Shooter vest and support arm provide exceptional stability while taking the weight of the camera off your arm and allowing you to shoot for extended periods of time.

$ 199.00/day*

 
Steadicam ProVid

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With the Steadicam ProVid, the 15 to 26 pound camera is mounted with a universal dovetail plate at the top of the sled. This is counterbalanced by the weight of the battery and monitor at the bottom. Thus, the natural tendency toward horizontal sway, especially in shoulder mode, is eliminated. Meanwhile the camera can be tilted up and down with mechanical fluidity.The combination of factors at work within the Steadicam ProVid give new meaning to camera mobility.

In addition to 360 degree fluid pans and tilts, the camera can be boomed from about waist high to overhead. Want to get higher? Climb a ladder. It will look like a crane shot. And, in the low mode configuration, the Steadicam ProVid can maintain a POV inches from the ground. Traversing even the roughest terrain is never a problem.

In a moving vehicle - whether worn by the operator or hard mounted to the CP Vehicle Mount - and whether racing across open country, open water or the open sky - the Steadicam ProVid will hold the camera just that - steady.

$ 499.00/day*

 
Steadicam III

Spar, support arm (35-50 lbs.), monitor, vest, camera mounting plates, 4-12volt Batteries included.

$ 499.00/day*

 
Handheld DV Steadicam

for light weight cameras with monitor

$ 69.00/day*

 
Steadicam Master Elite

with Wireless Follow Focus/Iris System.

$ 695.00/day*

 
Steadicam Master Elite

Full package with experienced operator.

$ 1500.00/day*

 
35-3 Steadimag

balanced film magazine

$ 95.00/day*