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Freestyle 3D Rig DIY for the poor man...

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The poor mans motorized 3D glidecam solution....

Hi, sorry about my bad english.
So here first tests with a motorized Beamsplitter-Rig for the Glidecam 4000 and other systems for a max. weight of 4.5 KG

Remote via 40MHz Remotecontrol so i can adjust the interocular distance between +/- 90 mm.
The preview Monitor you can see is a typical SD-TV-Monitor.
Each camera has a videotransmitter for 2.4 GHz, sending the videosignal to a laptop, and the laptop sends an anaglyph (or other 3D-formats)-signal via videotransmitter to the monitor.

During this test the mirror was broken :-(( because there was a failure in the construction, so i have to fix it, and many other bugfixes i have to do.
The weight is acutally exact 4.5 KG (with all components including cameras). Using other sleds and components the system can reduce the weight without cameras to ca. 2.5-3 KG.

Not implemented at this time are lightshields, and the area around the cameras of this box are currently open.
In a later version we will implement levellers for the cameras that we can adjust the angels and rotations.

The goal is to create a BS-Rig for small Glidecams like the Glidecam4000 Pro and with low costs. This system is not accurate exact, the final stereoscopic image comes out later in NUKE with Ocula.
But its only a prototype.

Benny
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wow, poor man but smart man, congrats looks amazing.
 
DIY (Do it yourself) at it's best....nice work.

Seams a bit top heavy....have fun experimenting!
 
nice
 
Hi Martin,
looks like you are having fun! Just so you know, there is already a 3D steadycam product called the Freestyle rig on the market since april 2010. when I read your post this is kinda what i was expecting to see...it might be worth changing the name to avoid confusion?
 
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