Björn Benckert
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Can not believe that it´s not more commonly used. Can go super creative with it, now I was just in the forest behind my house by myself testing it and as my cats and wife lost interest long before I got the rope around those poles I had nothing but my self to shot. But I will use this with 4 operators then I think it will really do magic. One to control pan tilt, one to drive the dactyl motor, one to do focus and then one that can pull the end of the rope to animate the height of the rope.
We will take this to the alps a month from now so hopefully I have some more testing time before that, but it for sure looks so much more promising than I ever thought it would.
Even when I was driving it really not that smooth, jerking on the gas and breaking hard and it looked like it was really dangling around on the wire the result footage still looks like butter smooth. And the speed and acceleration is amazing.
Only one thing missing on it would be some sort of spring / soft stops in the ends of the rope. As of course I ended the day by smacking the camera with quite high speed right into one of those poles, nothing costly broke but it was enough to spit my mini mag out of the camera an launch it like 15 meter together with my lipo battery.
13102802_10153749445013043_4600231173376453530_n by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
https://vimeo.com/164588072
little night test with out camera the day before.
https://vimeo.com/164144839
[video] https://vimeo.com/164144839[/video]
We will take this to the alps a month from now so hopefully I have some more testing time before that, but it for sure looks so much more promising than I ever thought it would.
Even when I was driving it really not that smooth, jerking on the gas and breaking hard and it looked like it was really dangling around on the wire the result footage still looks like butter smooth. And the speed and acceleration is amazing.
Only one thing missing on it would be some sort of spring / soft stops in the ends of the rope. As of course I ended the day by smacking the camera with quite high speed right into one of those poles, nothing costly broke but it was enough to spit my mini mag out of the camera an launch it like 15 meter together with my lipo battery.
13102802_10153749445013043_4600231173376453530_n by Björn Benckert, on Flickrhttps://vimeo.com/164588072
little night test with out camera the day before.
https://vimeo.com/164144839
[video] https://vimeo.com/164144839[/video]
