Tim Seaver
Well-known member
...and the birds were flocking together. You couldn't swing an Excel spreadsheet without hitting some grinning peakbagger, I say.
It was great to meet and see so many people from VFTT in the Presidential Range on Friday, a superb day to really relish the time above treeline, the sunshine inviting you to find a spot in the snow and just sit back and look at everything around you. And, to fiddle around with cameras, various supports and doohinkies in an effort to "capture" it all.
In other words, an ideal day for the above treeline debut of the Panomizer 5000, a simple panning device I designed for my GoPro 3 Black video camera, which I have been having lots of fun with lately (despite any hipster baggage that may come with owning one - at least I don't wear it on my head. Yet.) It's powered by a music-box wind-up movement with the noise-making fingers removed, placed in a housing I made from PVC pipe and a few pieces of plastic. It turns at about 40 rpm, a little slower in the cold. This is what it looks like on a GorillaPod Focus:
The bubble levels I epoxied to the unit are essential for setting up a decent pan. A few samples of some of experimental pans it produced:
Leaving Mount Monroe. This is shot at 60 frames per second, which I left that way to retain a natural walking speed:
From above Lakes. This was also shot at 60 fps, then changed to 30 fps to slow it down:
and from Sphinx Col. Also converted to 30 fps:
The GoPros also make time lapse sequences easily, with a built in intervalometer that can be set to take images from 1 to 60 seconds apart.
This one is about a 10 minute sequence at 30 second intervals ( click the thumb to view a short clip, double-click on the clip to play again):
Fun stuff!
more to follow...
It was great to meet and see so many people from VFTT in the Presidential Range on Friday, a superb day to really relish the time above treeline, the sunshine inviting you to find a spot in the snow and just sit back and look at everything around you. And, to fiddle around with cameras, various supports and doohinkies in an effort to "capture" it all.
In other words, an ideal day for the above treeline debut of the Panomizer 5000, a simple panning device I designed for my GoPro 3 Black video camera, which I have been having lots of fun with lately (despite any hipster baggage that may come with owning one - at least I don't wear it on my head. Yet.) It's powered by a music-box wind-up movement with the noise-making fingers removed, placed in a housing I made from PVC pipe and a few pieces of plastic. It turns at about 40 rpm, a little slower in the cold. This is what it looks like on a GorillaPod Focus:
The bubble levels I epoxied to the unit are essential for setting up a decent pan. A few samples of some of experimental pans it produced:
Leaving Mount Monroe. This is shot at 60 frames per second, which I left that way to retain a natural walking speed:
From above Lakes. This was also shot at 60 fps, then changed to 30 fps to slow it down:
and from Sphinx Col. Also converted to 30 fps:
The GoPros also make time lapse sequences easily, with a built in intervalometer that can be set to take images from 1 to 60 seconds apart.
This one is about a 10 minute sequence at 30 second intervals ( click the thumb to view a short clip, double-click on the clip to play again):
Fun stuff!
more to follow...
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