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Does anyone have any experience with these. They seem like a nice inexpensive alternative to the Turtle X by Easy Rig. I know a lot of union ops that use the Easy rig, it's about $1350 for one that could support a stripped down BMCC. The Atlas is about 1/4 the price.



http://www.atlascamerasupport.com/

However, the people using the Turtle X on the Easy Rig site do seem really happy!
http://www.easyrig.com/

Srsly? No experience with or comments?

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Seriously, would you want to "tied" to a spring pole rig? I saw an add for this a while back, and still looks unwieldily. I think I will pass.

See, there's a comment. Not so hard. The only issue I can see is the pole probably resting or pressing against the back of your head.

Double post - quirky site...

I tend to like a more normal Steadicam-type rig for that stuff. I have never heard of a professional steadicam operator opting for a rig like that. The one thing that I can see is that you will tend to have some swing / sway from a suspension rig that does not occur with a normal Steadicam-type rig. I have not tried one of those, though.

I use one of these with my EX1R and it works very well as a HAND HELD SUPPORT. If you walk around camera shake will be there-less than if you held the camera in your hand. But I have modified mine. Ive put a SPRING BALANCER ( max load 7kg) on the top of the rig. And since the tension can be adjusted to suit your rig, its very easy to pull and lift the camera up and down on the fly-something the provided straps dont allow.

DNomer wrote:I tend to like a more normal Steadicam-type rig for that stuff. I have never heard of a professional steadicam operator opting for a rig like that. The one thing that I can see is that you will tend to have some swing / sway from a suspension rig that does not occur with a normal Steadicam-type rig. I have not tried one of those, though.

This type of rig is used extensively in cinema. The products by "Easy Rig" are used in lots of big productions for supporting alexa's and fully rigged epic's

As you can see from their site, they have multiple sizes:

http://www.atlascamerasupport.com/

I think rigs like this will become more popular with the proliferation of all these brushless gimbals / Movi clones.

I personally always thought the Atlas system looked a little.... ungainly? The poles seem like they would always be hitting you in the face. I just bought a rig called the Aviator Rig, it's similar to the Easyrig design but its way less expensive and the pack is more comfortable.