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[Duck]

(Apologies in advance if this isn't the right forum to post this to!)



This is an idea I've had for quite some time. I've been making music videos for amusement rides for a while (ie, Psyclone, Sledgehammer), and I'd like to do some themed around snowboarding. Based on the concept of a SteadiCam, I'd like to mount my Elura2 to my board. The idea behind it, is that the SteadiCam's two parallelogram linkages ("bones") are spring tensioned to make the camera neutrally buoyant in space. That is, the operator's movements aren't directly transferred to the camera, resulting in a very smooth, steady shot!

To even see if my idea to build a snowboard-mounted single-link SteadiCam equivalent is worth pursuing, I rigged up a simple mount to do some basic testing with my digital camera. I think the results are pretty good so far! I'm optimistic I can come up with something either binding-mounted, or I may try and do something leg-mounted (with a shin-pad or some other kind of sport leg-mounted pad).

Camel's Hump @ Chicopee (Reverse Point of View) - 2.4 MByte, MPEG
Chicane @ Chicopee (Point of View) - 2.3 MByte, MPEG

I really hope this won't become one of my "never gets completed" projects, but with the end of the winter season so quickly approaching, I guess I can look at it as having all summer to finish it. :)

-Iain

This post has been edited by Duck: 17 March 2005 - 08:22 PM

[SkiBachelor]

It looks like you have exceeded your daily bandwidth with GEO.

[Duck]

:bag: This was Rogers' solution to eliminating their webhosting (kicking everyone over to Geocities). Sigh...

(Is there any way to attach a file within a post? I tried uploading the file with the post as I would an image, but no luck. I supose I could rename the file .jpg, and then make a note that when people download it they'll have to rename it before viewing?)

-Iain

This post has been edited by Duck: 17 March 2005 - 07:37 PM

[highspeedquad]

Great idea, though.

[SkiBachelor]

Duck, on Mar 17 2005, 07:26 PM, said:

:bag:  This was Rogers' solution to eliminating their webhosting (kicking everyone over to Geocities).  Sigh...

(Is there any way to attach a file within a post?  I tried uploading the file with the post as I would an image, but no luck.  I supose I could rename the file .jpg, and then make a note that when people download it they'll have to rename it before viewing?)

-Iain
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That might work, but I'm not really sure. Try to rename the file on your computer and then try to open it and see what happens. I guess people could just change the file type when they download it.

[Duck]

Edited URL's in original post to redirect to alternate host - should work now!

-Iain

[highspeedquad]

The videos do work now. It's very impressive, and if the final result comes up as you expect, I think it will be great! Again, very nice job.

Would there be any issues if/when you fall over?