Video Accessories

Sill photographers moving to shooting video and motion soon discover that while many of their accessories can be used in common, there are some which are specialized and needed for video work. Here are a half dozen which I have found to be good value for the money and the minimum to get the job done right.
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Still photographers moving to shooting video will be pissed to hear this, but you need to buy a new tripod. Not that your's isn't big enough or heavy enough, but because it doesn't have a fluid head. Fluid heads need to be in a ball and cup mechanism that is part of the tripod's basic structure.
What's a fluid head? Simply one which has variable tension settings on all axis, which when the camera is panned or tilted moves in an ultra-smooth manner. Trying to pan a normal photographic head is simply going to produce jerky amateur-looking footage.
The Sachtler FSB-6T is usable with just about any sti...