CES: Tiffen Wants to Smooth Out Your GoPro Videos with the Steadicam Curve
GoPro cameras certainly revolutionized the way we capture sports footage — offering a new, first-person perspective with their mountable waterproof cameras. But with mounted and handheld camera footage comes quite a bit of shakiness. Tiffen, a company that specializes in counterweighted camera mounts, has released a product specifically designed for GoPro cameras to offer smooth handheld footage.
The Steadicam uses hinges and weights to reduce the vibration and quick jolts in GoPro footage. It’s a technology that have been available to professional photographers for a while, and now anyone with a GoPro can make those silky smooth Hollywood-like roving shots to spice up their YouTube channels.
Steadicam Curve from The Tiffen Company on Vimeo.
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