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The Kenyon Stabilizer and Battery Pack
When You Can’t Use A Tripod
I wrote earlierabout photographing aerially. That article was intended to acquaint readers with the methodology behind photographing from a plane or a helicopter. I mentioned then that I use a Kenyon Gyro Stabilizer to steady the camera when I photograph. This time I will describe just what the stabilizer is and how to use it.
While not absolutely required, the stabilizer improves ones successes as small planes vibrate and shake. The stabilizer mounts to the tripod socket of the camera and is battery powered. Inside it two gyros spin at about 21,000 rpm. This keeps the camera steady. The Kenyon stabilizer is a heavy device. When using one the combined weight of the camera, a long lens and the stabilizer adds up to a good upper body workout over an hour or so of flying time.
There is also a learning curve when using the stabilizer. Because of its weight it is tempting to try to rest the camera on a surface like the edg...

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Neal Rantoul
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Neal Rantoul is a career artist and educator. Retired from 30 years as head of the Photo Program at Northeastern University in Boston he is devoting his efforts full-time to making new pictures and bringing earlier work to a national and international audience. With over 50 one-person exhibitions over the length of his career, Rantoul has just finished two new shows that were in April 2013. One was at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA that opened in early April and another at the gallery that represents his work, Panopticon Gallery in Boston, that opened April 6. These two exhibitions emphasized more current work. The Danforth show was of “Wheat” and the Panopticon exhibition featured new aerial photographs of the islands off the coast of Massachusetts.
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