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Using the gimble as a camera stabilizer

Using the gimble as a camera stabilizer

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Using the gimble as a camera stabilizer

- I think I was 12 or 13 when Stanley Kubrick's The Shining came out. And I don't remember how I saw it. I guess my friends and I must have snuck into the theater or something, but we saw it, and... And it was very scary. But I think it's a measure of how nerdy I already was that as much as I remember those two creepy little girls, I also remember having my mind completely blown by those incredible Steadicam shots from behind Danny's big wheel as he raced down the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. That ability to move a camera through space like that just had not been seen before. And, of course, Kubrick was using it to incredible effect, but it just really struck me. And then a bunch of blood poured out of an elevator or something, and I forgot about it. But I would not have imagined at that time, or even five years ago, that that level of camera technology would be available to an ordinary person for not much money. Thanks to modern, tiny little gimbals and tiny little cameras like the…

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