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Easyrig<br />
Johan Hellsten (far right) lives in Umeå, Sweden, which at 63°<br />
north latitude, is closer to the North Pole than any other <strong>Film</strong> and<br />
<strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Times</strong> subscriber. When Johan is not shooting for Swedish<br />
Television, he’s busy building Easyrigs for the more than 2500<br />
grateful camera operators worldwide whose backs he has saved.<br />
Picture a backpack with a post overhead and a spring-tensioned<br />
cable from which the camera dangles weightlessly off your<br />
shoulder, at waist level or anywhere else you prefer. It’s not a<br />
Steadicam. Easyrig eases the camera’s weight from your arms,<br />
90 Dec 2010<br />
lower back and shoulder. Johan must thank the Viking gods each<br />
morning for the many camera designers who never tried shooting<br />
for extended periods with the cameras they designed, with finders<br />
in strange places and balance even more baffling.<br />
Easyrigs are catching on everywhere. That’s Colin Budd,<br />
Lighting Cameraman, (top, 3rd from right) and his reality<br />
TV crew in Sydney. He writes, “Great invention...it may<br />
have added years to the shooting life of a cameraman.”<br />
(easyrig.se)
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