Steady, now...

Steadicams provide an awful lot of versaitility in your camerawork when you're filming. It means you can get in up close and personal, move around your subject and create a dynamic look to your movie without all that wobbling around that you get when you just hold the camera in your sweaty little hands. Problem is... they're really expensive. Hundreds of pounds expensive.

Or are they? A very quick search around the net uncovered The Poor Man's Steadicam, a site run by a chap called Johnny Chung Lee, who gives detailed instructions on how to build your own Steadicam from plumbing materials which comes to a grand total of $14. Yes, that's right, $14. That's £7 in real money. He also sells 'em here if, like us, you can't be bothered to build it yourself!

I've had a play with it, using the 'old' camera and it seems to be pretty effective - you're never going to get the same sort of quality that you'd get from a £1500 steadicam rig, but it's pretty damn good, for almost no money at all!