I have been using the GH1 for video and love it. I have a small stabilizer from Balvanz Enterprises that works pretty well but is hard to balance as there is little front to back adjstment and no left to right adjustments.
I have read most of your post on the Pegasus II. What are your feelings at this point. Contact me via email and I can send you some links to footage I have done with the GH1.
I need a better steady came and the Pegasus looks good but would love to hear your honest thoughts on it.
Thanks for reading the info. here. I’ll contact you via e-mail as well. I have looked at the Balvanz stabilizer only on the web via pictures and clip samples. It looks very similar to the Pegasus II.
I can only say that just from looking at the Balvanz unit that the Pegasus II is better because it allows you to make front and back as well as left and right adjustments. It is also very low profile and the weight system on the Pegasus seems to me to be a better design. Again, I would need to have the Balbanz in hand to actually give a more complete opinion.
The Pegasus II is not perfect by any means and still sways as I posted here. It helps to practice with the unit and to get good at not only exercising your arm with the unit but also finding the weight and momentum so that you can anticipate and compensate for sway. There’s a little up and down sway and I think that’s partly do the spring in the gimbal system that bobs up and down ever so slightly.
If you want a true steadicam smooth no bounce look of course I’d say go for a steadicam or steadicam merlin.
The price difference is significant enough for me to say I’ll deal with a little bounce. For what I do I can live with it. Others who may be using this unit not for run and gun, weddings, or documentary type work may need that critical smoothness and I’ll say if you are looking for that right out of the box then this unit may not be for you.
Much of the Lovely to Me walking sequences with Taiyo were shot with the Pegasus II. I’m going to post a few clips to show it’s use. For our purposes it was more important to tell the story so the final cut does not overtly show the Pegasus II, it’s use is more subtle which I much prefer.
If you want more information contact Frederic Cheung. You can reach him on ebay. His online store name is orpheus_c.
Hi Gary,
Great site but you REALLY need to make your image file sizes smaller. I'm traveling using a satellite dish for the internet and we're limited in our daily bandwidth. 2 megs per image is a "visit killer". Your front page took nearly 5 minutes to fully load.
Thanks,
#1 by jsanangel on August 12, 2009 - 4:12 pm
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Excellent website!!
#2 by Mark Hensley on December 7, 2009 - 10:24 pm
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Hi Gary,
I have been using the GH1 for video and love it. I have a small stabilizer from Balvanz Enterprises that works pretty well but is hard to balance as there is little front to back adjstment and no left to right adjustments.
I have read most of your post on the Pegasus II. What are your feelings at this point. Contact me via email and I can send you some links to footage I have done with the GH1.
I need a better steady came and the Pegasus looks good but would love to hear your honest thoughts on it.
Thanks and keep up the great post.
GH1 Long live GH1
Mark
#3 by Gary San Angel on December 9, 2009 - 7:10 am
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for reading the info. here. I’ll contact you via e-mail as well. I have looked at the Balvanz stabilizer only on the web via pictures and clip samples. It looks very similar to the Pegasus II.
I can only say that just from looking at the Balvanz unit that the Pegasus II is better because it allows you to make front and back as well as left and right adjustments. It is also very low profile and the weight system on the Pegasus seems to me to be a better design. Again, I would need to have the Balbanz in hand to actually give a more complete opinion.
The Pegasus II is not perfect by any means and still sways as I posted here. It helps to practice with the unit and to get good at not only exercising your arm with the unit but also finding the weight and momentum so that you can anticipate and compensate for sway. There’s a little up and down sway and I think that’s partly do the spring in the gimbal system that bobs up and down ever so slightly.
If you want a true steadicam smooth no bounce look of course I’d say go for a steadicam or steadicam merlin.
The price difference is significant enough for me to say I’ll deal with a little bounce. For what I do I can live with it. Others who may be using this unit not for run and gun, weddings, or documentary type work may need that critical smoothness and I’ll say if you are looking for that right out of the box then this unit may not be for you.
Much of the Lovely to Me walking sequences with Taiyo were shot with the Pegasus II. I’m going to post a few clips to show it’s use. For our purposes it was more important to tell the story so the final cut does not overtly show the Pegasus II, it’s use is more subtle which I much prefer.
If you want more information contact Frederic Cheung. You can reach him on ebay. His online store name is orpheus_c.
Regards,
Gary
#4 by Mike on April 26, 2010 - 6:23 am
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Hi Gary,
Great site but you REALLY need to make your image file sizes smaller. I'm traveling using a satellite dish for the internet and we're limited in our daily bandwidth. 2 megs per image is a "visit killer". Your front page took nearly 5 minutes to fully load.
Thanks,
Mike
#5 by Gary San Angel on April 26, 2010 - 11:18 am
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Thanks Mike for the heads up on that.
Yes, moving forward I’m trying to use flickr as a means to host the pics in order to reduce lag time.
Thanks for your feedback and appreciate that you found the site useful.
Regards,
Gary