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THE ORBIT

The pioneering Comodo Orbit

exclusively by Bowens, as part

is the only rig designed to fulfil

of the Comodo camera rig and

all the demands of 'single shot

grip range, this pioneering rig is

cinema'

film-making

and

designed for use with camcorders

perfectly suitable for use as a

and HD-DSLR cameras.

conventional camera stabiliser

too.

Orbit's

patented

stabilisation

Single Shot Cinema is an intimate

to move freely with the action,

cinema-vérité film technique that

finessing the camera into places

hitherto

impossible

enables a scene to be shot in a

single take using just one camera

support systems - thus enabling

moving fluidly around the subject -

true

Single

recording all the camera angles that

experience.

express the film-maker's personal

The

twin-grips

perception of that moment. The

camera movement itself becomes

operator

fatigue

the primary cinematic expression.

single grip stabilisers and, uniquely,

enables the Orbit to be smoothly

Designed

Leonard

Retel

and easily passed across from

Helmrich, the multi-award-winning

one operator to the next, allowing

Dutch

cinematographer

and

the camera to appear to 'fly'

film-maker

and

manufactured

through windows, doorways and

other narrow spaces to achieve

shots that previously could only

have been partly replicated using

cumbersome camera cranes with

all their associated restrictions and

time-consuming set-ups.

twin

grip

allows

operators

Retel Helmrich, a world-acclaimed

director and guru of the Single Shot

Cinema shooting technique, plus a

with

other

raft of related technical camera

innovations, has gained honours

Shot

Cinema

at both the Sundance Film Festival

and the International Documentary

Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

also

reduce

inherent

with

He says: "Now an operator can

move inside an event and go with

the camera to the right spot, at the

right moment...that's what Single

Shot Cinema is all about. Big

things and small things are equally

important."

the orbit

Orbit from Comodo allows camera

New

York

operators to create breathtaking

Anderson notes in a 2011 review of

orbits, sweeps and even crane-

Retel Helmrich's production: Shape

style shots - all from a flexible and

of the Moon: "In this film a barefoot

highly versatile handheld camera

man crosses a railroad trestle a

rig.

thousand feet above an Indonesian

valley, stepping briskly along a

Adds Retel Helmrich: "You can

beam barely wider than his feet.

almost fly around. Choose to stay

We see him from behind. We see

low to the ground or go high up

him from above. Most alarming, we

to the ceiling – you're very free,

see him from the side, by means of

yet still very steady. You can use

a camera that seems mounted in

your camera like you write – and

mid-air. It's breathtaking, what the

you can describe the scenes with

subject is doing. But a man with a

your camera movements. That's

camera is doing it too."

actually the essence of Single Shot

Cinema – capturing the moment

Rob Moss, film lecturer at Harvard

as much as possible in one shot,

adds:

"Retel Helmrich's camera

to be later condensed into shorter

glides through spaces in a way that

scenes with minimal editing – it's

just seems impossible. Sometimes

about cutting from movement to

you stop looking at the movie

movement."

and look at the shot. I think it's

delightful."

'Leonard Retel Helmrich's camera glides through spaces in a way that just seems impossible.'

the orbit

THE ORBIT

Times

critic

John

Of course, the Comodo Orbit is

perfectly suitable for use as a

conventional camera stabiliser too,

even if you're not looking to shoot

using the Single Shot Cinema

technique.

Look out for more advanced video

tutorials on Single Shot Cinema

techniques at:

Comodorigs.com

Join the Single Shot Cinema

Facebook community for advice,

tips and tricks and online master

classes:

Facebook.com/orbitrig

Rob Moss, film lecturer at Harvard University