A stabilizing and vibration-isolating mount to facilitate the manual
operation of a camera from mobile platforms such as aircraft, motor
vehicles, and watercraft. The camera mount comprises a carriage assembly
that allows the roll axis of rotation to pass through the optical axis of
the camera lens, thus eliminating the pendulum or over-the-center
phenomenon that characterizes moving images filmed while the camera is
moving about the roll axis. Movement around all three axes of rotation
can be stabilized by gyrostabilizers that can be adjustably positioned
through the centerlines of the pan, roll, and tilt axes.