Archive for April, 2011

Steadicam Merlin recipe for Canon T2i with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
By popular demand1, and to give me a reference so I can remember my settings when I inevitably lose them, I present my Steadicam Merlin recipe for the Canon T2i with attached2 Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens. It’s the exact setup I used to shoot this little video of a sidewalk butcher shop in China.

These images show the combination of weights used, the span angle setting, the hole in the mounting plate to which the camera was attached (hole N), that the gezornenplatz screw was in place, and the position of the mount plate.

Full setup
Full setup
middle weight and span setting
middle weight and span setting
End weights
end weights
mounting plate
mounting plate
mount plate position
mount plate position

  1. i.e., a single message sent to me on Vimeo [↩]
  2. as opposed to unattached? [↩]

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This is why Chinese children can’t identify animals

Saturday, April 16th, 2011
A delicious box of crunchy amorphous blobs. Good thing they’re each labeled.

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A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies

Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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I would kill for a copy of this poster. If anyone in shanghai sees these odes to civic pride being taken down, can you please grab me one?

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Someone is a big Haibao fan

Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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Haibao is either the mascot of the 2010 world exposition or a puffy blue tooth that stole George Lucas’s hair curl.

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Shanghai: Apartment Shopping

Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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Catching up on posting a few photos from that sojourn in Shanghai. This one was shot in a dusty hutong in Shanghai. Grease from a jianbing seems to have clouded my iPhone’s camera. I think I remember at the time choosing not to wipe it off because it looked interesting. The kid in this photo has the perfect kind of barely-reactive wary look. Better that than succumb to overwhelm, can’t have a billion people throwing a tantrum!

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