Slowly but surely and my new DIY Camera Rig!

We are slowly making progress on our film. I created a simple handheld camera rig last night that you can see here. It's a mod of the one Stu Maschwitz did in his book The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. His version used wood, but mine uses 3/4" PVC. Same basic principle: used a 2' section of PVC, cut 2 x 4" sections from the main part, put endcaps on all the parts, drill a hole on either end of the longer section, then through the center of the caps for the handles, then run a 6" x 5/16" bolt with wingnuts on the top for each side and tamp down - the endcaps sometimes don't go on all the way so I had to tap them down (I didn't use PVC glue for this either). When done, drill a 1/4" hole in the center of the long PVC piece. Here, you can just use a standard 1/4" x 1-1/4" bolt to attach to the camera. I thought I'd get jiggy and I attached a quick-release I picked up at B&H. The rest is just tape over the handles to make things easier to grab. I'm very possibly making a shoulder unit with a screen door shock absorber later, too, but this is still up in the air.

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