ORIGINAL: Justin

I saw that arm from Skip Enterprises this past weekend at the WI Deer Expor, and it looks pretty sweet. However, the $600 price tag is probably a wee bit high for me right now. For $200 the arm from Muddy Outdoors looks very similar and for most people I think will work great. In my case I have a GL2 that doesn't weigh much so I don't need the beefiest arm in the world. If I was to ever step it up to a bigger camera I believe Skip's arm would be the way to go. I really liked the dovetail feature he was working on so that the base folded down nice and small. That was pretty slick.

As for the guy who says you don't need an arm, he's right. You don't NEED an arm to film hunts, but from personal experience I will atest that it is much easier to get better quality footage with a good arm than without one. A more economical option for some people would be a shoulder mount, but the footage definitely has a tendency to be a little bit more jumpy. In my opinion, having a good arm and getting steady footage makes more of an impoact on the quality of your footage that stuff like a wide angle lens or even a better quality camera. If the footage gives me motion sickness when I watch it, I don't care how clear it is.