Steady. Steady.

The intro to my 2006 Halloween video has a long shot of a low approach to the yard haunt. I had the camera attached to a homemade steadicam device. I built it based off of this neat guy's specs.

Steadycam.org

I found that it's great for high shots as well.

Here's the first footage I ever shot with it. I was running up and down a ravine like a fool. Probably a bad way to test it since I was using a digital camera's movie setting and not a digital camcorder (though the potential is there).



Also used it to shoot THIS video of a cemetery.