I hate paying for stuff so i made myself a camera arm out of 1" square steel tubing and a old tripod head I have... Can post more details if anyone wants em Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
Have you used it much? How well does the bolt connecting to the tree hold up with the weight of the camera fully extended? I'd be pretty dangerous if I learned how to weld
Nope Fitz I just built it recently and with this cold weather haven't got around to any really good testing.... From what I can tell it holds it pretty decent but I may have to get it welded if I start having problems Those are 16” pieces so fully extended would place it at almost 4' which should be way more than enough for anything I need including wrapping around in front of me for shots on my off side Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
I am about to do the same! I plan on wrapping the tubing with the camo duct tape to really cut down on sounds when moving..or bumping it!
Just a little update... I finished the arm and got a chance to take a few pics of it this morn, I made a few slight changes too it and also shortened it quite a bit to help get rid of the bounce (and I realized I don't need it nearly 4 ft long) Special thanks to Jacob Schmidtt on YouTube for his video it helped a ton! Here's the link if anyone is interested: Make Your Own Good Self Film Hunting Camera Arm: http://youtu.be/dXj9Pqhi7NI Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
I wonder how using a rubber spray on this would work? If that would cut down on the noise? I have a muddy arm that needs painting...
Jonathan I have an idea I'm going to try as far as a paint job... I'll post the results when I get it done Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
OK so originally I was thinking plain black or maby camo tape wrapped... But I was in Walmart looking at the spraypaints they had and found this... Its around 7 and a half bucks so I picked up a can and figured I'd try it... I can't really get a good pic but after painting it lightly w a flat black as a primer and giving it two separate coats of this stuff I gotta say I like it!!!! It dries into a nice textured finish, black w brown specks thru it (it actually looked sorta dark green to me until after the 2nd coat dried so mb just one coat wud do it if u want the greenish look?) Here's the best I could do for pics right now, if I find a way to get better ones I'll post some Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
Definitely cool, but i just made one that attaches to the bolt of my stabilizer so I don;t have to spend extra stand time messing around.
JoeBear I'd estimate total cost is close to $100 but I already had a lot of the materials so it saved some, the tripod head will be one of the more expensive parts if you don't have a tripod you can borrow one from
