Welcome aboard

From across the Skyway

Dan C

No piston but an adjustable spring action to fine tune the balance point.

The vertical movement is about 3 feet so you can bring the gimbal above your head or drop it to waist level.

It will allow tracking of a bird at water level in front of you to it flying over your head. The lens is a 14 LB lens and with camera it is about 16 pounds. It allows you to have full flexibility

I plan on showing some other pics soon.

I am thinking of making a kit so that all you need would be the Gimbal, Tripod and weights from Walmart, a dollar a pound for the weights.

Still have some refining to do.

I have been experimenting with a tripod and mini jib head for birds in flight. It is a bit more to carry or move but if you shoot from a fixed location it has a lot of benefits over just using a tripod and head. One being the whole camera and lens becomes very light to work with, it allows you to lift the camera over your head to get the high shots as well as lowering it down to get the water skimming shots.

I frequent a area where we setup and shoot BIF at a local marina in winter where there is a variety of duck swans and geese.

Here is and picture of the unit I built, I still have more refining to do to it.

It is Android only, and is used for Video A few on the website talk on how they use it for the movie shoots A bit of Lag time over WiFi but nothing to be concerned about

Been using it for a few months now DSLR Controller still in Beta but useful.

I mounted a camera on the top of a 12 painters pole and control it with this app. Great for those high shots.

If you have a wifi Canon D60 it will control it wirelessly

Also use it for Macro mounting the camera on the underside of the tripod allows you to focus and even do a series of stacked focus shots automaticly and 32 levels of HDR

Dan C

Mounted on a Painter pole


Photo using the setup

I would assume Professional Photographers Association

A Bit, but well done.

This is one reason I will go into HDR 3 shot mode on the canon I will take 3 shots in a row at what ever you have it set to, 1 under, 1 normal, and 1 over, and then pick the best image or do HDR. all taken within a second no need to manually change settings.

Yes I know it was not needed but had to try it to see the results :)

Thanks for the coment

Actually I was only in one shot (cut and paste)
Dan C

Good looking Shots !

Where did you purchase the softbox

I still can't do cross eyed but am able to do parallel viewing
oh well one day

I would imagine it will depend on the contrast in the Scene and the levels of detail. I have seen an image taken inside a Cathedral where you can see the details in the black areas and in the windows and this was a 32 image HDR at 1/3 f stops each

Field of Dreams

This movie is great in 3D


The cool Dude


19 image HDR


over 60 acres off the side of a major Highway

first one is a jpg from the camera and the second one is a 12 image hdr

canon 5d II 28-135 mm lens 100 iso used DSLR controller to do the HDR images

non HDR camera processed


12 image HDR

Most camera stores carry the 3/8 to 1/4 bushing adaptor no need to order one.