Steadicam Merlin 2, Руководство по установке и эксплуатации

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Balancing from Scratch III: Find your camera’s c.g.
If you did not find your camera in the online cookbook, here’s how to find and mark your
camera’s center of balance, and locate the correct hole on the Dovetail Plate. (This is a good
thing to know in any event.)
Be sure the camera’s monitor screen is folded out in the
viewing position.
Keep one hand in control of your camera so it doesn’t
topple over, and experimentally find the spot on the
underside where the entire mass can roughly balance on
the tip of your finger.
Invert the camera and mark that spot with a pencil or
grease pencil. Your mark will probably not exactly
coincide with the threaded insert (mounting hole) in the
camera. Some of them are wildly different – that’s why
we provided 15 mounting holes!
Hold the Dovetail Plate inverted over the underside
of your camera so the true center of the plate (roughly
hole ‘H’), is located over your mark (and therefore over
the center of your camera’s mass).
Keeping the Dovetail Plate in place, visually locate
the mounting hole on the Dovetail Plate that coincides
most closely with threaded insert (mounting hole) on
your camera. You should be able to view right through
to the bottom of the hole. (It may or may not be hole H)
Mark the hole on the Dovetail Plate and install the locating pin just forward of it as
described above.
Hold the Dovetail Plate so the Locating Pin engages the locating pin hole in your
camera, and align so that you can insert and tighten the camera mounting screw.
Your camera is now ready to mount on the Merlin
2®
.
Now watch Section 6 of the DVD,
Balancing and Mounting the Camera.
Then continue with the Manual.
Dovetail Plate