User's Manual
Congratulations on your purchase of a Glidecam Devin Graham Signature Series
The amazingly advanced and totally re-engineered Devin Graham Signature
Series from Glidecam Industries represents the top of the line in hand-held camera
stabilization.
The lightweight and state-of-the-art Glidecam Devin Graham Signature Series
hand-held camera Stabilizer will transform your hard to watch shaky camera footage
into hypnotically smooth, professional footage.
The Glidecam Devin Graham Signature Series offers advanced features and a
degree of sophistication never before seen in a line of hand-held camera stabilizers.
With the Glidecam Devin Graham Signature Series Hand-Held Stabilizers,
your camcorder seems to oat; always balanced and isolated from the undesirable
motions of your hands. Now you are free to move with your camera: panning, tilting,
booming, and running without any camera instability or shake.
The Glidecam Devin Graham Signature Series works so well that it allows you
to shoot incredibly smooth and graceful shots even while going to extremes, like
running up and down stairs, or traveling over rugged terrain. When it comes to normal
shooting, like walking or moving the camera slowly around someone, the results are
equally magical.
Each Devin Graham Signature Series Stabilizer’s offset, foam cushioned, handle
grip is attached to a free oating, three axis gimbal. This allows your hands to move
up and down and side-to-side, thereby, isolating your hand’s unwanted motions from
the camera. This up and down movement alleviates the bouncing, pogo-type action
often associated with our competitor’s system. This is because their handle is not
designed to have the benecial ability to move up and down. This design feature,
coupled with the over all higher inertia of the Devin Graham Signature Series
systems, produces a superior stabilization when compared with our competition.
The unique and proprietary precision, three-axis gimbal, incorporates several
adjustable axis convergence controls. This allows all three axes to intersect for
proper operational alignment.
A camera-mounting platform with a dovetail quick-release, no-tools camera plate,
allows you to quickly attach or remove your camera. Ergonomic control knobs
allow quick, precise adjustments of the top stage’s back and forth and side-to-side
movement. These controls allow you to adjust the camera’s horizontal balance.
By varying the amount of counter weight on the base platform, by changing the
length of the no-tool telescoping Central Post, or by moving the adjustable gimbal,
you adjust the camera’s vertical balance. When balanced properly the camera oats
and you are ready to move into action.
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