What's the difference between a camera rabbit cage and a stabilizer? Is the camera rabbit cage or the stabilizer better?

Recently, in the SmallRig film and television equipment exchange group, many group friends asked Miss Haze: What's the difference between a camera rabbit cage and a stabilizer? Is the camera rabbit cage or the stabilizer better? What is the difference between a camera rabbit cage and a stabilizer for this problem? And the answer whether the camera rabbit cage is good or the stabilizer is good, I hope to bring help to the majority of netizens!

First, the difference between the camera rabbit cage and the stabilizer

What is a camera rabbit cage?

In fact, Miss Smoky wrote an article about it a long time ago. If you don't know what a rabbit cage is, you can check this article: "What is a rabbit cage often mentioned in video shooting equipment?" 》

What is the camera rabbit cage for?

We all know that the camera itself has rich interfaces and strong expansibility, but cameras such as SLR and micro-single are used to take pictures, so there is no complicated extended interface on the fuselage.

Then, with the camera's ability to shoot videos getting stronger and stronger, many individuals and small studios began to shoot videos with cameras. At this time, we need something to load other accessories needed for video shooting, such as microphone, fill light, display and so on. The rabbit cage came into being.

Accessories such as rabbit cages are mainly modular. Just like we play with tall building blocks, you can match all kinds of parts, keep studying, and finally assemble the camera into the most suitable form for you to cope with different scenes.

1. There are many leg interfaces, and it is very convenient to load accessories, such as tripod, pan/tilt, follow-up focus, monitor bracket, microphone bracket, flash bracket, adapter bracket, handle, side handle, shoulder, hood, etc.

2. The aluminum alloy material is very strong and can protect the fuselage;

3. The camera kit is integrated, and the data cable is no longer wound, thus solving the heat dissipation problem;

4. With corresponding accessories, low-angle shooting can be quickly realized, such as upper handle+rabbit cage;

5. Feel comfortable, so you won't have the entanglement of your little finger when you shoot with a micro-single.

6. Meet the requirements of stabilizer expansion monitor, microphone, etc. And that level of the stabilizer is not affect.

What is a stabilizer?

Stabilizer, as its name implies, is to make your shooting picture stable and eliminate the picture jitter when walking or moving. Let's look at a contrast animation first.

In the same shooting scene, the picture taken without stabilizer shakes violently, but the picture taken with stabilizer is smooth and smooth. At this time, do you think, I'm just making a video to share with my friends, not making a blockbuster. The picture doesn't need to be so beautiful, just keep your hands steady and pay attention, and you don't need to go to such professional equipment.

nonono！ Here's a capital no! In fact, from the rapid rise of Tik Tok platform, it is not difficult to find that short videos have completely penetrated into our lives, ranging from small videos of friends circle 10 second to self-timer and self-cutting travel videos. Many people have started to share their lives in the form of short videos. So what is the most important factor that determines the level of short video? Let's take a look at the following animation.

The picture taken in the riding state has obvious jitter. This is not a deliberate jitter, but in the process of shooting, whether you shoot with a professional SLR or a mobile phone, the final shot will become a waste because of your unconscious slight jitter and cannot be shared with others. After installing the stabilizer, it was also shot in a riding state. The stabilizer is like a magical magic, which completely transforms the video picture. So, to shoot a video, your basic equipment should have a stabilizer.

Development history of stabilizer

For laymen, the first sight of the stabilizer is the selfie stick. But it is not so much a selfie stick as a miniature camera stabilizer. Camera stabilizer is the originator of stabilizer, which is generally used in professional film shooting. However, the high price and huge volume of the camera stabilizer are only suitable for professional filmmakers. With the development of science and technology and the blowout of short video, hand-held stabilizer is gradually recognized by more photographers, and it has become the first choice for more and more people because of its approachable price and portable size. The camera stabilizer developed step by step can be said to be "a camera stabilizer that everyone can afford".

Second, is the camera rabbit cage better or the stabilizer?

Whether the camera rabbit cage is better or the stabilizer is better, in fact, according to the above introduction, it can basically be concluded that if you need to expand more accessories when shooting video with a camera, then of course it is better to choose the camera rabbit cage, because the camera rabbit cage can meet all your expansion needs. And if you only need to shoot a relatively stable video, it is natural to choose a stabilizer. Everyone needs to make a choice according to their own video shooting content. Of course, some people will ask, can I add a camera rabbit cage to the stabilizer? The answer is, of course. At present, most foggy camera rabbit cages can also be used as stabilizers, and many users have also shown how they add camera rabbit cages to the stabilizers, as shown in the following figure:

Ok, what's the difference between a camera rabbit cage and a stabilizer? Is the camera rabbit cage or the stabilizer better? Are you satisfied with Miss Haze's answer? If you want to know more about video equipment, welcome to Liao: SmallRig 2! 5000 big coffees in the film and television industry are waiting for you!