Acknowledgments

A lot of effort goes into a creating a book like this. We had lots of help along the way — from operators and others all over the globe. We would like to humbly express our gratitude to all those who inspired us and donated their time, thoughts, equipment, smiling faces, and support to the project.

Many thanks to

David Hayball and Carla Holway, our more than patient spouses.

Garrett Brown and Steve Tiffen for their encouragement and support to create this book; to our agent, Buz Teacher, for his tireless efforts on our behalf; Phyllis Coyne for her painstaking work as copyeditor; and Elinor Actipis, Michele Cronin, and everyone else at Focal Press for publishing it.

Our guest authors: Peter Abraham, Janice Arthur, Jakob Bonfils, Garrett Brown, Brant Fagan, Chris Fawcett, Dan Kneece, Scott Lakey, Larry McConkey, Charles Papert, and Lars Riis.

Donal Holway for the cover image and Ruben Sluijter for his wonderful computer graphics.

The operator/models: Chris Konash, David Taicher, Ruben Sluijter, and Patrick Van Weeren, and Evan Barthelman, Jerome Clark, Grant Culwell, Gregg Gialloreto, Frank Katona, Jay Kilroy, Jason Mann, Alan Mehlbrech, Ben Semanoff, and Skot Tamburri. And to Carlos Guevera and Blaise Miller for helping with the gear. And the models: Honor Hayball and Martha Steel.

For their photos: Brad Baker, Marc De Blok, Jakob Bonfils, Garrett Brown, Robin Buerki, Amando Crespo, Will Eichler, David Emmerichs, Brant Fagan, Brian Fowler, Steve Fracol, Rusty Geller, David Allen Grove, Dale Henderson, Dan Kneece, Guido Lux, Holly Mosher, Buzz Moyer, Jordan Oplinger, Mike O'Shea, Bruce Ostrout, Charles Papert,KnutPederson, Leah Powell, Alf Tramontin, Gustavo Trivino, Michael Tsimperopoulos, Ruben Sluijter, Tom Szklarski,Taj Teffaha, Patrick Van Weeren, Dave Williams, and Liz Ziegler.

Our friends from Tiffen: Marty Joseph, Aldo Moya, Robert Orf, Frank Rush, Lyn Taylor, Robin Thwaites, and Toan Tu.

A special place in our hearts for Ed DiGiulio, Ted Churchill, and Floris Sijbesma for their inspiration and advancement of the an and science of the Steadicam.

For providing great workshops where we learned how to teach: Elisabetta Cartoni, Jacques Lipkau Goyard, Michael, Peter, and Jarl Hofmann, Cinema Products,The Tiffen Company, and the SOA. And to the instructors: Alex Brambilla, Jon Bergström, Riccardo Brunner, Robin Buerki, Jerry Jacobs, Sebastian Jewell, Mikael Kern, Vaky Mallaby, Tass Michos, Jacques and Valentine Monge, Saade Mustafa, Niclas Närvall, Joel Ollson, Dave Svenson, Kareem La Vaullee — and so many others.

All the students and helpers in all the workshops over the years.