I’ve been asked by many people to help them with setting up and using their Merlin with the Canon XHA1 and so decided to make a tutorial video to help others. This tutorial is supplementary to the DVD that you get with your Steadicam Merlin and is specific to setting up the stock Canon XHA1 and Steadicam Merlin. Before I bought my own Steadicam Merlin I was very curious to know what it even looked like. I’d seen enough footage but didn’t really get a good look at the device itself, so I hope this tutorial satisfies the curiosity of folks like me as well. For me this was more an exercise in shooting and editing this kind of thing and I should apologize for the bits that are out of focus. It was the first time I had used the HV30 for anything more than a point and shoot kind of thing and it was on full auto. After seeing the footage and the out of focus parts, I sat down and played with the camera and figured out how set it in manual focus and such and planned a second shoot...
Virginia has hundreds of wineries and Vineyards and during the fall one of the things my wife and a friend of ours like to do is visit wineries. I don’t drink but I go along for the ride. This...
Over a year ago I discovered quite by accident this neat technique of stopping down (changing the aperture) of a Canon EF lens for use with my Letus35 Extreme. Since then a number of people have...
This is my first video using the Letus35 Extreme. At the start I just went out to test out my new toy, but on the way back home I ended up making this into a little project that taxed my editing...
This video is part of an article in which I attempt to clear up some issues members seem to have with regards to aspect ratios. I see a lot of videos that appear "squished" or letter boxed when...
One late December weekend Rebecca (a friend and co-worker) and I set out to do some shooting. She was using her digital SLR, a Canon 40D and I had just received my Letus35 Extreme a day or two...
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