Hi Jim. Yes, I know this but let me explain my circumstances, just for fun. I'm a travel vlogger who lives on a sail boat. As you can imagine life is often at an angle. TBH the stuff shot from the boat is less of an issue as viewers expect some camera motion, although I've become a bit of an expert at countering movement. The issue is going ashore. To get ashore we travel by dinghy, often landing it on a beach, so what we can travel with is limited. It all has to be packed into a waterproof bag. When we're ashore we're moving around, often to provision, so you can start to see how carrying extra gear becomes problematic. It's one of the reasons why I moved to m43, just to reduce size and weight. Tripods are out of the question unless it's a long talking heads or interview. I'm satisfied with most of the footage I can capture handheld tbh but occasionally I feel I need to stabilise. That said, after posting this thread I decided to not stabilise my footage in this week's episode and for the sake of maintaining the integrity of the clip it doesn't look so bad. A bit of hand movement is ok. It's just a travel vlog, after all. Also the GH5 has a 'tripod' mode that 'locks' the scene which I've assigned to a function button. Sometimes I forget to use this, so there's a bit of user error!
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