Tiffen steadicam solo Manuel utilisateur
User’s Manual
Solo User’s Manual
v. 01.01
p/n LIT-821000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to STEADICAM!
Getting to know the SOLO
Mounting your camera
STEADICAM MODE
Balancing the SOLO
Basic STEADICAM Operation
What NOT to do!
Beyond the Basics of STEADICAM
STEADICAM Training
MONOPOD MODE
Monopod Operation
Maintenance
Useful Accessories, Contact TIFFEN
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User’s Manual
NOTE: It’s important to read this manual thoroughly, so you can have your SOLO up and running
(maybe literally) in just a few minutes. Let’s get started!
PB
Welcome to STEADICAM!
A letter from Steadicam® inventor, Garrett Brown.
Dear Friends,
Congratulations! Your Steadicam SOLO™ is a professional shooting instrument. It’s also
a brand new critter -- a radical hybrid that crosses-over seamlessly from Steadicam to
monopod and performs tricks in between that neither can do alone.
You may be a veteran Steadicam ace looking for the ultimate run-and-gun rig for your
new digital camera, or a seasoned conventional shooter, eager to expand your technique,
professional world...
in any case you’re in for a rewarding experience. Your new SOLO is a true Steadicam®:
precise, rigid and beautifully engineered, and it’s also a brilliant and versatile monopod;
but most startling to me, after decades of shooting, is the realization that SOLO can de-
liver combination shots I never imagined, and with a speedy panache that would spin
the heads of my old Hollywood colleagues.
With its inertia-augmenting ‘wings’ folded out, monopod shooting is stable in all three
axes -- ‘tilt and roll,’ obviously, but now also ‘pan’ -- and with SOLO also balanced in Stea-
dicam mode (at any desired length), you can smoothly ‘lift off’ and walk, run or climb
stairs like your favorite moves from the movies.
then seamlessly return to monopod or Steadicam-mode -- with or without the optional
arm and vest.
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nally depend more on skill and talent than on big budgets -- and SOLO can help you get
there.
This latest iteration of the ‘noble instrument’ is cool and it’s hot! and I look forward to
seeing your results -- in sample reels, documentaries, commercials, home videos, reality
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yond, including superb Steadicam training exercises and monopod techniques.
Good luck with your new Steadicam SOLO™ and good shooting!
Garrett Brown
Philadelphia, 2013
www.garrettcam.com
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Top Stage
Quick Release (QR) Plate, Lock
Knob and Release Button.
Balance Adjuster Knobs.
Gimbal Handle and Post Grip
One to support and one to control
the rig.
Yes, the handle is supposed to be
loose!
4-section post
Post Locks.
Length increases for MONOPOD
MODE or for Beyond Basic
STEADICAM Operation.
Getting to know the SOLO
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Getting to know the SOLO
Wings
With 8x Weights.
They’re folded now, but you’ll
spread them and be flying soon.
Swivel Foot
For use in MONOPOD MODE.
Or for resting the rig after a long
STEADICAM shot.
Tools
Allen Wrenches.
Next: Mounting your camera
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Mounting your camera
Build the camera exactly as you
plan to use it
Install the battery and media card
(or tape or film!)
Attach ALL camera accessories, in a
compact setup with no loose wires.
Make sure the LCD screen is flipped
open and positioned for easy
viewing. It’ll affect the balance.
Find the center of balance of
your camera
Use a pen or something round to
find the Fore-and-Aft balance
point.
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Mounting your camera
Mark the point with a piece of tape
on the side of the camera.
Rotate the camera 90° and find the
Side-to-Side balance point.
Mark this point as well.
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Mounting your camera
Fasten QR Plate to your camera
Remove QR Plate from the Top
Stage and remove the 2 camera
screws.
Center the Camera to the QR
Plate by using the Fore-and-Aft
and Side-to-Side marks you made.
NOTE: Some cameras (like DSLRS)
may have balance points OUTSIDE
of the camera body. In that case,
you would mount the QR Plate
to the camera FIRST and use the
pen to find and mark the balance
points.
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Mounting your camera
Fasten with the appropriate camera
screw.
Do not over tighten, but ensure the
camera will not rotate.
NOTE: The QR plate will work in
either direction, but make sure to
mount it parallel to the lens.
Mount camera to Top Stage
with QR Plate
Slide the QR Plate into the Top
Stage, position your Fore-and-
Aft mark at or slightly behind the
CENTER of the Post.
Tighten the Lock knob to ensure
the QR Plate won’t slide.
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Don’t pick it up just yet! We’ll learn
how to set up the SOLO to fly in the
next section.
Mounting your camera
Using the Side-to-Side Adjuster
Knob, align your Side-to-Side
mark with the CENTER of the Post.
Next: STEADICAM MODE
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