All the Right Moves: Stabilizing Your Camera
When you need a moving camera, the right gear will make those money shots count
By Matthew Power
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/cinematography/article/all_the_right_moves_camera_stabilizers_20071118/
Not every director likes to move the camera. Some simply can’t afford it. Go back and look at Kevin Smith’s Clerks, for example. Almost every shot in that movie was a locked-down tripod shot—no movement at all. At the other extreme is Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s mind-blowing Russian Ark, an entire feature film shot in one continous, moving shot, featuring 2,000 actors in 33 different rooms.