Savannah Miller wrote:No I have only experience with smaller steadicams and I have done about 7lbs before maximum. I did see a video of a guy doing almost 15lbs of his Ursa Mini 4.6K and Devin Graham glidecam. He claims he can do 3-4 minutes continuous and he's no bodybuilder. He has quite skinny arms. Sure it's very heavy but you get used to it very quickly. When I first did 7lbs with a glidecam I could only do 30 seconds, but after a while I practiced and got to where I could do 2 or 3 minutes no problems. And I could shoot all day without issues too with proper rest.
4-5 lbs was a rigged out camera with heavier lenses, no stabilizer.
I was randomly at a carnival today and the guy there was using an Ursa Mini 4.6K with a Ronin and he operated for about 10 minutes without rest. No support of any kind.
ronin with dual hand, ronin s come with single arm, dual handle or ring is additional.
ursa + simple lens + small battery + small monitor (you can't have open monitor when you work, change balance too much) is up to 15lbs, then you must add gimbal weight.
recently i shooted a short where there are steady operator with ursa, and more than 4-5 minutes are hard for him, but we shoot all days..
WIth a gimbal i think at end of day you have problem, real problem, may be you are younger then me (45) but keep attention for the future, your shoulder and especially you back will ask to pay later this kind of work, it's important to protect your health.
i usually use barbell of 10kg, since 7 libs on my training and it's hard to think to keep it in front of me for 2-3 minutes fixed, last reps of last series is hard to do.
if someone can use it fluently, i'm happy for him, i think it's hard solution to keep stable on long time shooting.
anyway pocket 4k will be excellent solution with ronin-s, and... today i start to see people that put gimbal on arm vest, the best of two world