Right now I'm looking for a good tripod, and I remembered one I had seen a while back - an odd looking one in the shape of a wheel. Not exactly a tripod, but definitely a portable camera stabilizer, the Fig Rig makes moving your camera around and keeping it steady seem simple. Mike Figgis (director of Leaving Las Vegas) had invented this rig in order to keep mobile and steady while moving around and tilting his camera - something that you can't really do with a body harness. Although the thing looks a bit weird (and can make your arms tired), I can see how it can be useful. In searching around I also found a DIY fig rig. The real Fig Rig costs about 300 bucks. The DIY version about $30.
1. I was looking at these too, but they're so unruly. I like to be unseen.
I just got a nice little monopod with a belt bracket, so you can sort of hook it on your waist to keep it steady... around $35 or so.
Posted at 12:44AM on Dec 7th 2005 by Chuck