From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Walking the camera
- So Rich, we've already established that moving the camera in a scene or around the scene that's something difficult to do. - Yeah. - And let's just start off with the absolute baseline. No additional equipment, just my hands, my two legs. I'm movin' around on the scene-- - If I hold that out there, it's shaky. - Yeah and we've talked about this in various shapes and forms in past episodes, but I think we can all just agree that holding the camera like this or even cradling the camera or you know, if you have a loop, putting, you know, another piece of, you know, contact to your eye. Very good stuff, but it's still not perfect and unless you're very stable, you're probably going to still introduce some shaking to the shot and it's going to distract your viewer from the motivated movement that you're trying to make to actually just viewing your bad camera work. - So Rob, you're right, you know. If you're going to hold the camera, absolutely, a loop making a third point contact's going…
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