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Ok so a few of you have been asking about seeing the rig I used for my recent shots, ok here goes ...
Ages ago I used glass carrying handles (£6 from B&Q) to bolt my tripod to which worked well but it wasn't quite long enough to get the whole car in, so I have simply bolted 3 metres of 2" Aluminium tube to the handles with exhaust clamps and some quirky bits of metal lying around.
A terrible image I know, but you can see what I mean:
Then using two more exhaust clamps and a bit of sheet metal with 5 holes in, made the camera platform, a 3/8 bolt help the head on, albeit upside-down.
I thought I had finished at this point but on trial, there was a fair bit of flex still, so then put a bit of scaffolding end in the middle and with hooks of a rachet strap at either end, I pulled it taught onto the middle bit of pole:
Now it solid as a rock at much greater speeds than I will ever be doing.
Here is a couple of Porsche shots (cropped) of the rig in place, edited was simply cloning and adding a touch of blur to the bits I had tidied up.
The pole cost £20
Handles £6 each, two of.
Rachet strap small £9
Exhaust clamps should of been a couple of quid each, but hey, there has to be some perks to running an ATS depot, lol
So there you go, easy huh. any questions ?
Ages ago I used glass carrying handles (£6 from B&Q) to bolt my tripod to which worked well but it wasn't quite long enough to get the whole car in, so I have simply bolted 3 metres of 2" Aluminium tube to the handles with exhaust clamps and some quirky bits of metal lying around.
A terrible image I know, but you can see what I mean:
Then using two more exhaust clamps and a bit of sheet metal with 5 holes in, made the camera platform, a 3/8 bolt help the head on, albeit upside-down.
I thought I had finished at this point but on trial, there was a fair bit of flex still, so then put a bit of scaffolding end in the middle and with hooks of a rachet strap at either end, I pulled it taught onto the middle bit of pole:
Now it solid as a rock at much greater speeds than I will ever be doing.
Here is a couple of Porsche shots (cropped) of the rig in place, edited was simply cloning and adding a touch of blur to the bits I had tidied up.
The pole cost £20
Handles £6 each, two of.
Rachet strap small £9
Exhaust clamps should of been a couple of quid each, but hey, there has to be some perks to running an ATS depot, lol
So there you go, easy huh. any questions ?