To film these shots in the movie, a custom, lightweight a Steadicam rig was created and was first used for the foot chase in Bigelow's 1991 film Point Break.

However, it would be impossible to give a real person a steadicam and have them go about their life. To make this possible, I have spend over 10 years perfecting smaller stabilization devices first used with camcorders, as you can see in the this ActionCAM video demo is produced in 2001

and now I have been focused on inventing stabilization devices for megapixel cameras that shoot high quality mpeg video. One of many stabilization devices I have invented for small cameras is this carbon fiber plate that is in the shaped that molds around the upper chest bone.

The carbon plate is then strapped using 1" nylon straps that crisscross behind a person back and is then tighten. SInce the plate is the same shap of the chest bone, the plate is actually very comfortable to wear. In the center of the plate is a 1/4-20" bolt, supports basically any type of swivel camera head. There is also a 360 degree internal rubber anti-shock ring inside of the carbon plate that takes out the last bit of vibration. A Canon Power Shot 630 is then mounted to the swivel head allowing to adjust the camera angle. The result is a perfect steady camera shot from the persons point of view.

For an alternative view of using a small megapixel camera, I also invented the "CAMERAMAN", a pole
type of stabilization device. Check out my experimental videos here

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