So after month of use I can say I´m really happy with this stabilizer, the built quality is superb, I have balanced my GH17 with panny14-140 after few minutes of playing.. If your budget allows you to buy it , don´t wait and grab it.. I´ve had also chance to play one day with flycam nano (with my gh17 and my friends 7D) and It was horrible.. pain to balance,heavy, and footage wasn´t that good like from wondlan.. I simply love it
one more tip.. I bought mine from ebay seller jasoncui2 he also accept offers and he has accepted mine (330USD) , he also wrote a price of 60USD on the box so I have paid low tax.. my total cost with the tax was 290€/345USD so I´m really glad .. you can try to make an offer too if you didn´t catched it in the forum deals..
Last time I checked you must also plus shipping. Declaring wrong value is a crime, you can check this asking your customs officiers. As for price, one you indicated will make this guy selling for a minus, btw disclosing offer price is not very good idea. His normal price is quite good, btw.
@Vitaliy_Kiselev don´t know if it canged but last when I checked it was still with free shipping ..
I know it is crime.. but I don´t care that much.. my country is so beautifull but is so f****d by our government that if you would live here you would enjoy every same "crime" you did .. I would never cheat a person for money , but a tax for my country which is ripping off 90% of our nation for almost 15 years? the taxes are here so high (20%) and is even getting higher due to lending money (which our country doesn´t have so we have to lend from other countries and boost the taxes and set some new taxes -this year 11 new taxes were accepted in our country ) people are going crazy here, I know there are countries that are worse on this than we are.. but I don´t care paying money for our government criminals .. It´s hard to tell if you don´t live here but Slovakia is too much little country to be watched by other (bigger and stronger) countries ..but again.. I´m out of topic :)
as for the price.. I would buy it even for 360USD if he would decline all my offers.. but I don´t think he would accept my offer if it would be not profitable for him.. there are more sellers accepting offers and I think that it will not just help our forum members to save some money (that´s why I wrote my message) .. but also the ebay seller will maybe sell more of those units .. it is allways better to sell something with (maybe little, but we don´t know that ) profit than sell nothing :)
haha sorry jules... I meant "more expensive" not pricey.. as you said.. there is not that much difference.. but the mini was for my needs better, as I don´t use monopods and the load range 1-3kg is enought for me.. I guess I have to use that google translate more often to check my words :) and now I understand the Vitaliys words about the price.. he was talking about the price for the bigger version not the mini.. my bad, I am so happy with this stabilizer that I forgot to say one of the most important thing , which type of unit I have.. sorry VK now I understand about the "minus" thing
You are talking about different stab, not one this topic is about.
And our deal price for it is slightly more than $330 :-)
@CrazyPete this was Lumix G Vario 7-14mm. There is no OIS on it.
@tinyrobot it's the regular one.
@SuperSet there actually is no setup to look at :). Only thing that I used for this differently was using weights (only the small ones). For "camera up ballast down" mode the weights are usually not needed. For "camera down ballast up" mode it depends on how low You want the camera side to be. The lower/higher You want one side to be, the more contra weight You have to put or You will get pendulum. While stabilising first thing I do is find the centre of gravity. Then adjust handle so that the lower side is a bit heavier. And only then I start to stabilise front/back and left/right positions. @hedrox the music was a lucky find :)
@janis Thx for the additional insight. Did you end up mounting your camera directly onto the plate or did you use rails like they have in the demo version? I'm trying to figure out the quickest way to balance mine and avoid penduluming but haven't gotten it exactly correct yet so looking for other's experience.
@SuperSet I mounted camera directly to plate. But I'm looking for good and cheep quick release plate like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quick-Release-Assembly-And-Sliding-Plate-Mount-Work-for-Camera-/330723712849 (the price is wrong here) so that I could switch from tripod to stabiliser without loosing balance. It helps to balance it on some mic or light stand. I have this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000mm-Lighting-Professional-Photography-Photographic/dp/B004LDURVE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342723892&sr=8-1 . But it's doable holding in hand also, just do it in little increments.
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