The Scorpion

[ksnielsen]

Has anyone bought one of these? Does it work well? Might be a nice this to have on hand for video.

http://www.camcaddie.com/

[Chuck Engels]

This is better
http://steadycam.org/

And cheaper too

[tiny]

This is better
http://steadycam.org/

And cheaper too

Bah! You beat me to it. I thought you were linking to something like the merlin, and then I was going to link this.

The real question is, has anyone here ever tried one of these do it your self steady cams? I'm mostly skeptical about how long you could hold them up for . . .they look heavy.

[Chuck Engels]

No worse than a real steadycam, those things take a lot to use for very long.
My nephew has one of the cheap ones, he loves it and it works really well.
You don't want to shot with it for an hour, just specific shots. Really cuts down on the shaky video for walking and even running while shooting.