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36. Helicam with Canon T2i/550D over Whitefish
1 year ago
Testing out a T2i with 14mm lens at 720 60P. Rendered with 2.35 bars and 24 frames for fun.

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  • Filip Blaauw plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful! Nice touch with slowing it down to 24 frames.
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  • looks like fun!!! i could use some toys like that... whats yer day rate? i may have some projects for you...
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  • Dan O'Connell 1 year ago
    i love the mad world instrumental!
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  • J. Zaragoza 1 year ago
    Amazing how smooth that is, did you stabilize in post, or was your helirig enough? Freaking sublime. (Would love to see a pic of whatever you used to get the T2i airborne. Guys like you have balls of steel doing that.)

    You know, if you held it steady enough in the air, you could probably pull off some insane tiltshift effects like no one else.
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  • JON ZOMBIE plus 1 year ago
    wow, that takes guts to throw your camera that high in the air. beautiful video.
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  • FPV-Leif plus 1 year ago
    Just Beautifull!!!!
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    Thanks all for the kind words!

    Jose,
    Here is some TS footage:
    vimeo.com/7963169

    and a few shots of the rig:
    facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=207510&id=394861326398

    Cheers,
    Jeff
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  • DJ Vegh 1 year ago
    Nice work!
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  • BEEBZOR 1 year ago
    nice!
    it's nice to see montana footage
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  • Pavel Gregoric 1 year ago
    beautiful,beautiful shots,well mastered helicopter
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  • Ethan Knight 1 year ago
    Hi, very interesting..
    Was this stabilized in post as well..?
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  • Lloyd ranola plus 1 year ago
    Great stuff! And that camera does a good job! Do you think a 500 sized heli could handle the T2i with a lightweight lens?
    thx!!
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  • Sam Morrill staff 1 year ago
    You need to find a way to work this stuff into a short film. It would be amazing.
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    "Great stuff! And that camera does a good job! Do you think a 500 sized heli could handle the T2i with a lightweight lens?"

    Yep...here is a quick shot of a Trex500 that I flew yesterday to check the payload:
    facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?pid=5795222&id=394861326398

    Cheers,
    Jeff
  • Lloyd ranola plus 1 year ago
    Hey Jeff, I meant to ask you 'back then', where did you get that mount for the 500? I'd love to do the same with my Protos. Thx!
    Lloyd
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  • James Barber 1 year ago
    Hehe, very cool. I've always wanted to do this, but had none of the skills with remote control choppers. Awesome!
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  • Hassan Saddiq 1 year ago
    I have the same question as everyone else, how was it stabilized? because that footage is just amazingly smooth

    second question, how much does the heli cost?

    very nice video!
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    For stabilization I have a KS2 gyro on the mount plus I'm using Mercalli on PPro CS4, but the default settings on Smooth (FCP) should do a better job.

    When I go out the door I'm probably carrying $25,000 worth of gear, but I've spent way more than that just figuring out these machines the last 9 years.
    Back in the combustion engine days they would say all your anwers to your toy helicopter questions were at the bottom of a 50 gallon barrel of fuel.
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  • Dave 1 year ago
    really nice love the idea..
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  • Jono Seneff plus 1 year ago
    this reminds me of those dreams you have of flying
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    "this reminds me of those dreams you have of flying"
    I have those daily.
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  • David Stewart 1 year ago
    Surprisingly stable KS2 gyro even with the conforming to 24p. What powers the copter if not combustion?
    My favs are the low shots just above the rooftops and the landing through the trees. You sure have built up valuable experience and skill.

    Very well done.
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    The heli is all electric so you don't have to deal with the 15,000 rpm vibe. Also my electric ships are a bit more reliable than my nitro rigs.
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  • George Loch 1 year ago
    What kind of range do you have with this rig? Are you sending an image back in any way?
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    Everything is line of site so as far as I can see it. I'm pulling the video (NTSC) and framing from it.
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  • Geoff A Charters plus 1 year ago
    Excellent footage. Not to mention this is my all time favourite song. Have not heard this version. Very good. Thanks for sharing. All good...
  • dimalozz 1 year ago
    Yes! But I can not remember what it's called? Can you tell me?
  • Geoff A Charters plus 1 year ago
    It's called 'Mad World'. Gary Jules sung it for the Donnie Darko movie in the 80's. But it is written by Tears for Fears.
    cheers mate
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  • Ben Brown plus 1 year ago
    Wow! Your are crazy! To hang off of a helicopter for this is crazy!
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  • Scott Zhang 1 year ago
    nice!!!!

    jeff i can't open the facebook links (copying the whole url) is there any other way you can show them??

    tkss!!
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    Thanks all for the kind words.

    For facebook you should be able to search for our "Gravityshots" page and go to the behind the scene photo galley.

    Cheers!
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  • Pablo de Regino 1 year ago
    Amazing!! Where, How i Buy a Helicam like that?!?
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  • Jens-Chr. Strandos plus 1 year ago
    Awsome. Wonderful scenes, I really would like to have "toys" like that:-)
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  • Ruben Kremer 1 year ago
    Simply wonderful! Do you know any kinsmen of yours over here in the Netherlands - there's always a job for people who create these dreamshots :-)

    That must have been nerve-wrecking - sending a cam out there, up there for the first time (back then). And then you flew the thing over water, if it was to go down, then all hope 's lost. All the things that can go wrong, I'd see them in my head if my camera had to go up. But then again - looks like it's worth every nerve ;-)
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  • adson_silva 1 year ago
    hehehehe
    uau !!!
    you're crazy, dude !!!!!
    uau...that crazy !!!
    bravo, bravíssimo.

    perfeito !
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  • Q Kim 1 year ago
    Beautiful, but honestly it would've been nicer without the shadow of the copter in the beginning :D
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  • Q Kim 1 year ago
    Nice! would've been better if the shadow of the copter didn't show in the beginning, could've started lifting it off facing the sun :)

    But still I love it
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  • This is Beautiful!! Do you do this alone or do you have someone to fly the heli
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  • GravityShots.com plus 1 year ago
    This was done solo with a pair of downlink glasses for framing.
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  • Joao Carlos Marins 1 year ago
    Hi man, what is your helicam mount?
    I wonder where to buy it.
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  • Byron Morrell 1 year ago
    Do you have information on the version of Mad World that was used as the soundtrack?

    Brilliant video, by the way.
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  • San John 1 year ago
    where can I buy a Helicam ?
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  • YOMEN MEDIA 1 year ago
    nice job
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  • Duncan Drake 10 months ago
    Hi, do you have downlink? is video out working while taking pics / videos? is video out suspended while recording pics? thank you
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  • I'm glad I found this video again! I came across it a some time ago and it's taken me a while to track it down again. I know someone else asked this but I was wondering if you could tell me who did the version of Mad World used in the video or where to find it...it i the most beautiful version I have ever heard. Thanks!
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