Anyone made a pole stand for mounting a camera?
Was thinking about this the other day while wadding out in water to take photos of people windsurfing.... you could easily stick a pole into the sand.... and mount a camera left on video mode on top..... pics taken from splicing frames.... or left as vid.....
But issues:
Keeping something in wet sand is hard..... it will try to move out....
Perhaps a weighted flat footing.....
And safety.... well its winter and only windsurfers are out.... and could be sprayed fluro to prevent would be darwin awardees...... maybe using pvc piping....
Any ideas? Am sure there are some inventive types here.........
Kdog I have seen a van with a telescopic pole that went u about 15mtr with a camera on the end & it was used to do Arial real-estate photography ran a cable down to monitor & the camera paned etc that could be parked as close as possible . I have also seen a helium dirigible with camera mounted with panning camera the advantage would be that the wind could blow it out over the water & then the tether would be on land. But a simple solution might be just to weld a bit of water pipe to a steel car rim that way you could roll it to the water & if that's not heavy enough fill it with concrete .
K-dog, being an ideas man, why not use what is already there?
At Bonbeach there is that yellow wooden post about 100m out.
It's not about to go anywhere and would provide a super stable anchor for a camera.
You could swim out with a hammer, a few nails and a few cross bits of wood to create a bit of a ladder.
Then swim back in, get your camera (which you have pre mounted to a pole), and a roll of gaff tape.
Swim back out, climb your make-shift ladder, gaff tape your camera to the post, pointing in the right direction, and Presto!
"Speilberg's ya uncle"
Seriously though, that post is in a good place to jibe around and also to try a few jump on the way out.
plus, everyone can see where it is from a long way out.
-just a thought.
My attempt, The GoPro Table......Failed.
The idea was to place it in the shallows with multiple cameras, On the day I had 4 GoPro's mounted on various positions including a soloshot and the high cam mounted on a mast. I will try again, It needed to be weighed down with a sand bag or the like to stop the chop from working it loose. As you can see I put some fluro flags on it and everyone had no problems seeing it. The only other problem was one tosser of a kite boarder who thought he would keep slapping the camera on the way past...I kindly had a word to him in the car park after and he's not been seen since. I did get some ok footage from it but I'm sure I'll get it to work better.
Select to expand quoteBondalucci said..
K-dog, being an ideas man, why not use what is already there?
At Bonbeach there is that yellow wooden post about 100m out.
It's not about to go anywhere and would provide a super stable anchor for a camera.
You could swim out with a hammer, a few nails and a few cross bits of wood to create a bit of a ladder.
Then swim back in, get your camera (which you have pre mounted to a pole), and a roll of gaff tape.
Swim back out, climb your make-shift ladder, gaff tape your camera to the post, pointing in the right direction, and Presto!
"Speilberg's ya uncle"
Seriously though, that post is in a good place to jibe around and also to try a few jump on the way out.
plus, everyone can see where it is from a long way out.-just a thought.
That's a good idea for Bono Peter. I'm thinking a single PVC stuck right into the sand might also work... if its sharpened.... and have a flag off it as well.... but I am thinking its going to sway a bit in tide, chop and wind.... might as well experiment...
Select to expand quoteBondalucci said..
K-dog, being an ideas man, why not use what is already there?
At Bonbeach there is that yellow wooden post about 100m out.
It's not about to go anywhere and would provide a super stable anchor for a camera.
You could swim out with a hammer, a few nails and a few cross bits of wood to create a bit of a ladder.
Then swim back in, get your camera (which you have pre mounted to a pole), and a roll of gaff tape.
Swim back out, climb your make-shift ladder, gaff tape your camera to the post, pointing in the right direction, and Presto!
"Speilberg's ya uncle"
Seriously though, that post is in a good place to jibe around and also to try a few jump on the way out.
plus, everyone can see where it is from a long way out.-just a thought.
Thats a pretty good idea.
You can also make a telescopic pole with a broomstick handle and some tubing. Attach it permanently and when you paddle out there you can attach the camera on a flymount, extend the pole for height and lock it in place with a nail (predrill a hole in the tube and the point to which you are extending it to.)
