by a cameraman in the drawings numeral 8 indicates a recording button used for normal picture taking operations when the grip 4 is released a pan driving mechanism and a tilt driving mechanism will now be described with reference to fig3 and 4 as shown in fig3 in a tip end portion of the grip body 5 an electric motor 9 for tilting the video camera 1 and an electric motor 10 for panning the video camera are installed driving force from these electric motors 9 10 is transmitted to a tilt gear wheel 12 and a pan gear wheel 13 through a tilt driving force transmitting means and a pan driving force transmitting means that is a gear unit comprising a worm gear and a spur gear and so on in the drawings numeral 25 indicates balls circularly arranged at a lower surface of the pan gear wheel 13 the balls 25 hold the pan gear wheel 13 which is rotatable with respect to the grip body 5 a tilt worm 12a is integrally formed with the tilt gear wheel 12 at an upper surface thereof the driving force from the tilt gear unit is transmitted to a tilt worm wheel 15 rotatably supported on the base 4 via the tilt worm 12a and a bracket.