Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Camera mount for smooth panning.
- In
- Engineers Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 81, no. 9, Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, ACT, 2009, p. 35
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.813086984954864
- Abstract
When watching documentaries there is likely to be a slow moving shot panning across the wilderness or sky. That slow smooth panning shot is actually very difficult to achieve, especially when shooting in rough terrain. Early tripods to assist in stabilising a camera during shooting were basically only a leg or stand upon which the camera rested. They could not eliminate vibrations caused by the cameraman during a panning shot. The vibrations typically were removed later in the editing room. But in 1946, Eric Miller from Sydney, invented a camera mount that solved this problem, and today's camera mounts are still based on his original cylinder concept.