Steadicam Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

DIY Steadicam for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 21st, 2010)

This is really awesome. While there are rumors that an iPhone 4 Steadicam is in production, Spencer Watson didn't wait -- as you can see above, he went ahead and built a Steadicam-type rig for his own iPhone out of some parts he had sitting around. As you can see from the video it takes, it works ...

Found Footage: Steadicam releasing Smoothee for iPhone 3GS

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2010)

In the world of professional film and video photography, the Steadicam stabilizing camera mount revolutionized tracking shots by allowing a camera operator to "hand hold" a camera, but keep the camera steady. This Academy Award-winning invention is now available for the rest of us in the form of ...

Shoot steady iPhone video with Zgrip iPhone PRO

by Dave Caolo (Jul 6th, 2009)

ZGrip iPhone from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo. A few weeks ago, I shot a video of myself riding a bike around. The result was a bit jumpy, as you might imagine, so I used iMovie 8's stabilization feature to eliminate the shakiness. The result is nice and smooth, but also artifical looking. I ...