I got a Technocrane on a Budget | Telescoping Camera Crane 

Not the brain behind it either😂

True.. i miss their everyday vlog..

I wonder if it's the motor and it's battery or something that throws it off. On the long end, the the camera extends off the furthest point and nothing is mounted anywhere else on the arm, on the short end the weights and controller extend off the furthest point. For it to change from being back heavy to front heavy during extension, either something on the long end would need to be extending quicker, or something on the rear end would need to be extending slower - which is what makes me think the motor and battery may be the issue as it's not mounted to the weight bar and so will extend less. Adding a lighter weight on the long end a little closer to the pivot than the mid point would probably allow it to be balanced such that it could maintain equilibrium throughout extension.

It potentially is user error. I'd like to get hands on this but don't have time or need right now.

Seems to me a PERSON holding a camera/gimbal, could get 90 percent of the shots your guys tried?

@@Bill-NM Yep, most of these shots could have been achieved with the same level of quality by just having a person hold a gimbal above their head...

and it looks better

Just to be clear, I agree with you and hopefully this video didn’t come across as a rave review cause I’m definitely not recommending everyone go out and get one, haha. impractical for 99% of people but gotta admit, it’s super fun to play with. Also, if you’re paying $2k for shipping, check out B&H and adorama. I got free shipping.

i dont understand why prople buy stuff like this without rent it at least once lol

We used 2 Proaim scissors type jib cranes, apparently the first was first gen and the second is second gen. Honestly i didn’t liked the first one… + it had electricity issues which is why we returned it and got the second gen. By that time we didnt knew there is 2 versions but… the second version is still not that great.

I wish I had rented it before buying 2. But it looked soooo cool!

Yo 😂 home Depot could fix all your problems! Replace all the nuts and bolts and use locktight

Sorry for my broken English, I m French.

That's because the crane never stays in equilibrium when extended; a pi$$ poor design, as, when balanced to equilibrium, the counterweight should always exert an equal and opposite moment at the pivot; the fact that this isn't happening shows that the moment arms are different as the crane extends.

I wonder why they didn't use a fatter thicker bolt?

Damn, that's crazy

@@RAN480L64 You know... except for all of the translation sway and non-consistent motion paths. You can clearly see that the image is wobbling around in most shots because of the inconsistent counterbalance.

​@@RAN480L64 What a weird bunch of assumptions to make that have absolutely nothing to do with your original reply. Strawmen don't help your argument. Nothing about those shots make it look specifically like a crane, half of them COULD have been a drone and the other half look like someone holding a gimbal above their head. The whole point of a crane is to be more stable and repeatable than either of those options, why do you think unwanted translation is the desired effect of a crane?

I don't think that's the issue, once balanced out the moment arms from the camera and counterweight should always be equal and opposite; this is how _any_ counterweighted crane works.