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At 58 min 49s, the video above shows on-set footage of a film crew. (Link is setup to start playing from there.)

For a few seconds, it shows people following the camera and repeatedly tapping the back of the camera.

Why are they doing this? Is this still a thing with modern equipment?

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    I have never seen anyone do this on set... If I had to guess, it's to add jitter to the frame since the camera's on a Steadicam and they don't want it to look too smooth... they want it to be a little bumpy.
    – Catija
    Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 8:40
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    Too busy LMFAO for an hour and a half... what was the question?
    – Mazura
    Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 19:43
  • The scenes they do it in are action scenes after all.
    – cde
    Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 19:43
  • @Catija Hm, makes sense! Kinda ironic how tech. can get so good some times that people reject it!
    – midopa
    Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 19:46

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That's a method used to add camera shake (as @Catija suggested). The anti-shake features present on the cameras would otherwise make the effect have to be done in post-production, which is far more expensive.

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