My friend Neal Barenblat and I decided to rent one and climb a mountain. We rented a Varizoom Steadicam Navigator from Omega Broadcast here in Austin, TX and drove out to Enchanted Rock. We mounted Neal’s DVX100B onto the Steadicam and climbed the 800 ft. mountain, all while documenting our experience on my Canon XL2. Worst Idea Ever? Maybe. Check out some of the photos below:
Neal & the Steadicam
Steadicam? No sweat!
Ready for Adventure!
Neal was up first. We took out the Steadicam and assembled it. Since we had only taken a small crash course on how to use a Steadicam, we were about to find out if we could climb Enchanted Rock and keep the camera steady. Neal decided to do the uphill climb and I would do the down hill climb.
Check out the short video below:
Somebody must have seen John Handem Piette’s award winning work on “The Businessman” for that enchanted rock scene…Hmm indeed Carlos.
Hahaha I totally forgot about that scene in The Businessman. We should have added more effects to the skyline turning black with thunder and lighting.
LOL That was too funny!
Nice! That was fun to watch and i’m not even into video stuff ;)
Actually the hand held stuff looked better than the steady /wobble cam.