This one’s for anyone who’s ever realised, halfway through a shot, that the single quarter-inch thread that’s rigging the monitor to the camera has come loose. As a result, the apparent slow pan is not so much the artful influence of the practiced hands on the fluid head but an inevitable consequence of a mechanical problem that’s going to become a critical concern during the whip pan we know is coming. When that causes a blown take, it’s irritating. When it causes a bulky piece of machined metal to plummet from a crane and concuss an A-lister, there can be awkward questions to answer.
Source: A better kind of rigging…or is it? by Phil Rhodes – ProVideo Coalition