Flycam 5000 - Balancing Review; Center Cameras Center of Gravity; Attach Camera to Plate; Re-attach Top Plate

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Holding your Flycam Stabilizer
When handling your Flycam 5000 Stabilizer, one hand holds onto the handle while the other is used
to gently guide the camera in the direcon you wish to shoot and frame the shot. For normal
shoong, hold the handle in the middle.
For normal shoong, hold the handle in middle.
For shots that require framing the camera up, down or sideways, hold the handle rmly at boom.
This will allow the yoke part of gimbal to rotate without hing your hand or knuckles.
Balancing Review
Proper system balance can only be achieved once your camera is set up with appropriate accessories
ready for shoong. This means baeries, lenses, media cards, LCD viewnder/monitor, quick release
plate, on-cam lights, and all the gear you will use for your recording session.
• Remove top plate of FLYCAM and line up your camera so that its center of gravity is as close to the
center of the plate as possible (basically hold the camera in your hand unl it feels balanced both
le and right as well as forward and back).
• Find hole in the plate that is as close to threaded tripod mount on your camera as possible (while
you are sll holding your camera's center of gravity to the center of the plate). Aach your camera
(or quick release mount if you have one). Tighten it down so it won't accidentally rotate.
• Re-aach top plate. Center it, but don't worry about geng it absolutely perfect yet.
• Remove most of the weights from Base Plaorm, but leave one on each side.
• Insert the center post as far as it will go and ghten so it won't slide out.
• Hold the handle normally and turn the FLYCAM so that it is horizontal to the ground. Let go of the
stalk while keeping a rm grip on the handle and count how long it takes to return to vercal again.
You should be able to count a good, "One-one thousand, two-one thousand", before it rights itself.
With only two lile weights it might take considerably longer.
• Add one pair of weights at a me and repeat the "horizontal to vercal" test unl it falls at the cor-
rect rate. It will probably not be perfect.
• You'll get one that's too slow and then you'll add a pair and it will fall too fast. When that happens,
take o the last pair of weights that you added.
• Tighten down the weights so they don't slide around.
• To get count perfect, slightly lower the center post that aaches the Base Plaorm with the
weights unl you get the "one-one thousand, two one thousand" count to the vercal posion.