Tuesday, 6 May 2008

DIY Stabilisation for the TX1

The Rodfather Mobile Blog has a good overview of a number of DIY stabilisation options for the TX1 to assist or replace the on-board IS.

I have tried a few of these in the past using DV cams with mixed success. Personally though I really like the look of the Wii steering wheel option linked to in the article.

Links: Blog article | Discussion forum thread

4 comments:

vantle said...

Thanks for creating the forum. So I purchased the TX1 in Feb 08 and am having problems transfering my movies from the card to my computer. What is the best way to do this and then convert it to something I can burn? Any help with software packages would be wonderful. My problem is the movies are very choppy uncompressed and are too small when converting.

Matt Tavani said...

Ventle, this thread in the forums could be a good place to start...

http://forums.powershot-tx1.com/index.php?topic=15.0

chai guy said...

I thought this would be a pretty cool companion to the TX1

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/525293-REG/Bogen_Manfrotto_585_Modo_Steady_585_Camera.html

http://www.truveo.com/Modosteady-by-Manfrotto/id/2273358343

robocat said...

Great article discussing publication of inventions -- about the guy in the photo that innovated this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/business/26proto.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1225019234-9ppIYDOSh2m8IOUz2XpQXg&oref=slogin&oref=slogin