Camera Helmets on Camera Fliers

[Deuce 1]

I'd like to see what everybody looks like in their head gear.

This is my setup. D-box, Cameye, Crosshair ringsight on articulating bracket. PC120 in D-Box (Old style) 10D on Stroboframe, conceptus tongue-release. For film it's a Nikon N70. The cameye light is on the ringsight and is shrink-tube wrapped to the bracket. All the wiring is in the helmet, and the tongue-switch for the stills is routed inside to a stereo plug for the Canon switch. The stills camera shutter release plugs into a stereo plug on the top of the camera.

Thanks to Evan Mortimore for the picture.

[XDV 0]

very nice work, but for your still camera, I would install a aluminium plate on top a L shape, to remove all the snag possible around the still camera

just a suggestion, but I don't like to see those kind of incident happing make it snag free can save your life, know a cameraflyer who died because line been around his camera stuff

take care

[Deuce 1]

Thanks, Rene. I appreciate the feedback.

So, you got a picture of you in your gear?

(Edited to correctly spell "Rene". Geez, and my Mom's French and everything)

[davelepka 4]

I have to agree with the other reply. That still camera is waaay out there. I know they are popular, but that quick relase deal adds alot of height to the set-up. Where are you going with that still cam anyway? Does it really need to come off that quick? Mine is mounted directly to the Bonehead flat top mount with a tripod screw and a zip tie over the lens. I can get it off if I need to, and I can change the camera batts while it's mounted. Besides. lowing the camera will centralize the mass, reducing the leverage on your neck musscles, and the wind deflection on your head.

[freeflyanvil 0]

Do you have some sort of spacer between the stroboframe and the helmet?

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"stons fal, evrysing fals, but doesnt on purpos change its flite pas an positioning..."

[Deuce 1]

Yeah, I need a quick release, I switch between digital and film, it doesn't add significant height.

Yeah, there's a wedge in there a friend machined for me that angles my still to match my video. I shoot tandems on my belly, and to get the angle right on Vectors you gotta really crank your head back. It's not so much that I'm uncomfortable shooting 4-way and other RW.

Come on! Vidiot gear pictures! On!

[XDV 0]

I will take some this week-end at the DZ

[danwayland 0]

Here's mine.


http://danwayland.com/me/12-8-02/FaceOff.jpg



http://danwayland.com/me/12-8-02/CameraStep.jpg



http://danwayland.com/me/12-8-02/MassiveSwoop.jpg


I widened the still mount on my nvertigo x using a flat plate, bondo, and gaffer's tape, so that the still camera doesn't stick out on either side, and I feel that it was a worthwhile modification because it's less snaggy and cooler looking.

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Dan Wayland
http://www.danwayland.com

[Deuce 1]

Nice. Did the bondo add much weight? I've never worked with it.

[danwayland 0]

I dunno. I just used small quantities of bondo to fill in any little line snagging grooves that were left at the end. Bondo looks like poopie, though, so I quit using it and just taped over the rest.

You many notice that I am always striving to achieve a certain balance between my top two priorities.

1. Remaining unharmed
2. Looking $hit hot

If there's more to life than those two things and getting laid every once in awhile, I don't wanna know about it.

To protect from lines getting up under the still camera, I just put several coats of tape from the platform down to the helmet. They've held there for 3 years!

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Dan Wayland
http://www.danwayland.com