Hehe... Timelapse Crane

[Tom Lowe]

Last night I did a field test of the add-hoc "Timelapse Crane" kit Kessler put together.

Check out the video here: http://www.vimeo.com/13770827

Next step is tossing a timelapse pan-tilt head onto this sucker! :ihih:

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

Tom, this is freaking awesome. The possibilities are endless!!

(link is only kinda broken, when you click, it adds extra text in the address bar that you just have to delete)

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Me likee

Congrats. Cool

 

[Kwan Khan]

Nice....

 

[Curran Giddens]

me want.

 

[Jay Gannon]

I really like the perspective change that it gives, really makes it obvious that it wasnt something done in post.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Sweet!! Will you be able to set the rope to pull on a diagonal? Or would the jib's head provide less resistance on one of the two axes? Post more.

 

[Shane Betts]

Very, very cool. Can't wait to see how it develops.

 

[jimhare]

Timelapse of your timelapse! Love it!

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

You're reaching Baraka levels man... Keep going.

:biggrin5:

 

[Matthew Bennett]

Nice - I want to try this - my company just bought a pocket jib

groundbreaking as always Tom!!!

 

[hunterrichards]

meh.... call me when you get bust the 50' out.. ; )

 

[Jeremy_Sawatzky]

that is so freakin cool tom. i absolutly love your work

 

[Andrew Walker]

Looks like a nice tool to add with the others. How does it hold up in wind?

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Beautiful.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Amazing!!!

 

[Tom Lowe]

meh.... call me when you get bust the 50' out.. ; )

Sure thing. You call me when you're ready to help us haul the counter-weights up those mountains and rocks. :thumbsup:

 

[Perry Ho]

Last night I did a field test of the add-hoc "Timelapse Crane" kit Kessler put together.

Check out the video here: http://www.vimeo.com/13770827

Next step is tossing a timelapse pan-tilt head onto this sucker! :ihih:

Wonderful Tom! Keep move on Dude!

Cheers

 

[Bruce Watson]

Just to be clear (forgive me for being too naive), the crane moves in steps and is coordinated somehow with the camera so that the crane step is completed and the crane quiescent, then the camera makes its exposure, then the crane moves... rinse and repeat. Yes?

What's the control system? How does it interface to the camera so it knows when the exposure is complete?

Fricke built his own control system to run his timelapses in Baraka IIRC. I believe it did three axes of motion -- dolly, pan, and tilt. And he built his own camera too so he had access to the internals and could control all the timing and movements. Note that he did this around 1990 -- when computers were a lot less common and a lot less capable than they are now.

Are there any commercial systems out there like that? Or is this what you are shooting for?

In any case, this is very cool. I love the effect of the camera rising up "through" the rocks. Most excellent.

 

[Pawel Achtel]

Interesting. I like the result.

I decided to make a motorised slider that can go at any angle, including vertical....even with 100 kg load