The Steadicam Merlin includes:

•  the Base Unit
•  3-Position Lever Lock System
•  1 Start Weight
•  6 Middle Weights
•  2 End Weights
•  Camera Mounting Screw
•  Locating Pin

The STEADICAM® MERLIN™ is ultra-light, ultra-rigid, ultra precise, folds spectacularly and is beautiful – in short, the ideal instrument for today’s videographers with camcorders weighing up to 5 pounds.  For documentaries, weddings, news segments, commercials, even low-budget features, the Merlin shines. In practiced hands, it performs as impressively as the big $60,000 Steadicam, yet remains ultimately unobtrusive. The Merlin is not only stable, it is also an inherently graceful way to hold a camera –not only for big moves and running around, but also for those subtle, imperceptible and elegant displacements of the lens that cannot be achieved any other way.

Ultra-light (weighs less than 12.8 oz) and ultra-compact, the Steadicam Merlin allows you to keep up with the action more easily than ever.
The Steadicam Merlin is half the weight and four times as stable as the JR.  Yet, it can move as smoothly as the big $60,000 rigs used in Hollywood.

The Merlin let's you "fly" wherever the scene takes you--up and down steps, indoors and outside, through crowds--almost anywhere, with precise, elegant control and ease.  Its quick release mount lets you instantly swap camera connections between your Merlin and any tripod.

Merlin's design significantly reduces fatigue. So lightweight, it weighs less than a can of soda. With a compact DV, balanced and ready to go, the Merlin weighs about two pounds. Its rigid construction permits longer focal lengths than ever imaginable with a hand-held stabilizer.

Merlin's unique dual extended weight system greatly increases inertial stability.  And its counterbalancing weight can be precisely adjusted to balance cameras from 0.5 to 5 lbs (up to 7.5 lbs with the optional Arm and Vest).

The Merlin includes the Base Unit, 3-Position Lever Lock System, 1 Start Weight, 6 Middle Weights, 2 End Weights, Camera Mounting Screw and Locating Pin.

The new patent-pending "Folding-Caliper"TM hinge allows instant fold-up, perfect for shoulder-mounted shooting, and just as quickly, returns precisely for hand-held camera work.  Its features include 6-bearing metal gimbal assembly, 3 axis gimbal handle and aluminum alloy upper and lower spars.