Can you figure this out?
May 20, 2014 15:14:09 #
Leaving the area these two women arrived and set up their equipment for photographing heron and egret nests. Can you figure out the type of cameras and the reason for the wooden blocks? (Taken with an iPhone pic, after my gear was stashed, as I drove away.) Thank you in advance for your input.
Cameras and Wood Blocks?
May 20, 2014 15:46:29 #
I don't see enough detail on the cameras to figure out what they are.
The only reason I could see using a wooden block would be to stabilize the tripod but not as they're using it, and many people use a heavier weight suspended in the middle of the tripod to use as a damper/stabilizer.
The only reason I could see using a wooden block would be to stabilize the tripod but not as they're using it, and many people use a heavier weight suspended in the middle of the tripod to use as a damper/stabilizer.
May 20, 2014 15:52:51 #
May 20, 2014 15:54:48 #
LPigott wrote:
Leaving the area these two women arrived and set up their equipment for photographing heron and egret nests. Can you figure out the type of cameras and the reason for the wooden blocks? (Taken with an iPhone pic, after my gear was stashed, as I drove away.) Thank you in advance for your input.
politely introduce yourself and tell them you are {at what level you} photographer ... and ask them about there equipment ? most of the time people will stop and talk
May 20, 2014 15:55:43 #
redhogbill wrote:
" . . . as I drove away."politely introduce yourself and tell them you are {at what level you} photographer ... and ask them about there equipment ? most of the time people will stop and talk
May 20, 2014 16:10:58 #
It may have helped if you had checked (store original) that we could zoom in to see more detail, but from what I can see the wood is at the top of the tripod below the head hanging loosely from the center post (see tripod on the left). Personally, I would have asked, but that's me and it is too late now.
What is odd, is if you zoom in, they seem to be a piece of 2x4 around the center post with a smaller, second piece below the extension. A place to rest their arms maybe, or to use as a post to hang their gear from to weight the tripod from on high?
At this magnification though, who knows, as it appears they have Thomas The Train atop their tripods...
What is odd, is if you zoom in, they seem to be a piece of 2x4 around the center post with a smaller, second piece below the extension. A place to rest their arms maybe, or to use as a post to hang their gear from to weight the tripod from on high?
At this magnification though, who knows, as it appears they have Thomas The Train atop their tripods...
May 20, 2014 16:30:02 #
The kit look like movie cameras. maybe the wood counter balances the camera when they pan and reduces shake. As they both have the same kit it would appear they may be trying to take 3D movies and have yet to tie on a connecting rod between the two tripods.
May 20, 2014 16:32:11 #
May 20, 2014 16:49:47 #
lighthouse
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G Brown wrote:
The kit look like movie cameras. maybe the wood counter balances the camera when they pan and reduces shake. As they both have the same kit it would appear they may be trying to take 3D movies and have yet to tie on a connecting rod between the two tripods.
That is pretty smart GBrown!
I think you might be on the right track.
If you wanted to take 3D then ideally you would be set up on the one framework to hold the two cameras relative to each other..
But if that wasn't an option, then you might have some sort of setup to ensure that you could line up the two cameras level and an exact distance apart.
This could be what this is.
May 20, 2014 17:01:21 #
Wow, Thanks lighthouse
my light is too often pushed under a bushel.
I cannot think why a 'couple' would use the exact same camera and set up. They can't be competing against each other and so must be jointly producing something OR one person is using two cameras to produce something and the other is helping. 3D is the only thing that I can think of that is a produced using two 'old' cameras (Sony DSLRs can take 3D stills now but can only be shown on a 3D telly)
The side mounted viewfinder (if that is what it is in ST£3V 3M's blow up) kind of tips the brain cell that way.
my light is too often pushed under a bushel.
I cannot think why a 'couple' would use the exact same camera and set up. They can't be competing against each other and so must be jointly producing something OR one person is using two cameras to produce something and the other is helping. 3D is the only thing that I can think of that is a produced using two 'old' cameras (Sony DSLRs can take 3D stills now but can only be shown on a 3D telly)
The side mounted viewfinder (if that is what it is in ST£3V 3M's blow up) kind of tips the brain cell that way.
May 21, 2014 00:26:59 #
Your thinking sleuthing is appreciated. I'll repost the pic with "download."
May 21, 2014 00:29:13 #
For those who are tracking the equipment. The two cameras working in sync makes sense.
Cameras and Wood Blocks?
May 21, 2014 00:45:05 #
I like the idea its for some form of 3d but it could be a more mundane counter balance for a long lens
May 21, 2014 00:51:34 #
Following http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-212213-1.html
(I think your photo is too small to allow store original)
(I think your photo is too small to allow store original)
May 21, 2014 06:25:37 #
Perhaps they use it to tap on to get the birds attention and for them to face the sound location...similar to a bird call. Although I don't know what these birds sound like.(as I shrug my shoulders as in...I don't know, :)
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