User Manual

Balancing Your Glidegear 3000
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When your camera is mounted onto the Glidegear 3000 (with battery and
memory card), the unit must be balanced correctly to achieve optimal and
effective image stabilization. The center of gravity (COG) of the entire system
must be manipulated to be just below the fulcrum (gimbal). Usually this
means to have about 1/4 of your camera weight on the bottom (counterweight
arm) so that the system is slightly bottom heavy. Let’s take just a minute to
understand this:
Try to balance a shallow bowl on the end of your thumb. You will find this very
difficult to do. This is because the COG is above the fulcrum, your thumb, in
this example: