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Fact #1. There are a lot of techniques filmmakers have used throughout the years to achieve a steadier shot. Indie filmmakers today build complex DIY dollies, mount cameras on skateboards, and operate while sitting in moving wheelchairs, among other innovative techniques.
Fact #2. Given all the ingenuity in the field, a development like the Steadicam was almost inevitable. In the early 1970s, an American cinematographer named Garrett Brown got to work on a counterbalance system that could stabilize shots. His invention won him an Oscar and gave the movie world many iconic shots.
Fact #3. Camera stabilizers generally work by way of counterweights. They'll set your camera on a platform that has some motion to it, and they'll hang weights beneath the heaviest part of the camera body. The effect should balance out the camera against its own motion, though it doesn't always run so smoothly.
Fact #4. If you want to achieve the kind of stability you see in professional Hollywood films, you're probably going to end up combining a stabilizer with a small amount of post-production smoothing. What a good stabilizer will do is drastically reduce the amount of parallax in your shots that could lead to warp distortion. That's what happens when your editing software tries to pick a point of reference for its stabilization. There's so much movement in all three dimensions that the whole image shifts unrealistically.
Fact #5. Obviously, the smoother you can get your shot in-camera, the better. The best stabilizers do this by providing you with a lot of adjustment points. Remember, these devices are designed for universal use across a wide array of DSLRs, camcorders, phones, and more. They need to provide counterbalance for an equally long range of camera weights. In most cases, manufacturers market their devices for units of a certain weight range.
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