Steadicam Ultracine 2 - “Cloverfield” should have budgeted for one of these…
Repeat after me: “Steadicam rules!” - Dan and crew get to lay eyes on the new Steadicam Ultra2 system - the latest in Steadicam’s line up of full featured professional grade stabilizers for Motion Pictures and Television. The weight range is from 10 - 70 lbs (do your own math if you want Kilograms) and uses a new Lithium Ion “Power Cube” battery developed with IDX for camera power.
The new Power Cubes juice your rig with an Arri 435-motor-taming 10 Amps. If you’ve ever had a 435 not come up to speed because of your Anton Bauer battery block then you’ll dig this. Having seen this mess as a 1st AC some years ago with a producer standing over the camera department clucking away, I can tell you that the pucker factor - especially on a ridiculously over budgeted commercial - gets only ever so much more ratcheted up when you are lined up for the first shot of the day and can’t bring the camera up to speed…
wasting film
…wasting time
…wasting money
…and you haven’t even shot a thing.
Oy!
So Steadicam and IDX have fixed this for you.
For only $59,500.
Or you could buy a Mercedes…
But if you have one of these, you can probably afford the Mercedes … and the requisite insurance on your 10 other collectible cars in your garage. It seems every pro steadicam op has their own airplane and yacht.
~Drew
Jason Kichline is ScribeMedia's project manager and producer of ScribeMedia's Emmy Award winning series Reporting AIDS. He likes typos, fast food and MacGyver like solutions to life's nagging problems.
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