flyfastc 0 #1 June 14, 2015 See attached. Looking for any advice on how I could improve my camera helmets snag hazard. I was thinking of creating or looking for a box that will fit around the stills camera, covering all parts of the camera except the lens of course. The problem with having a stills camera on a helmet that isn't a flat top is the giant snag spots you can see in the image and the visions of having a reserve wrap won't escape my mind. Any ideas? Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkycndo 0 #2 June 14, 2015 Not sure how to prevent a wrap around the camera itself, but getting something between camera and helmet is what has prevented me from putting a still on my head. To fill in that space, consider filling the gap between helmet and camera with something like polymold or Sugru Mold it with a lip behind the camera so a line would go up/over instead of between camera and the infilled material. Secure the infill with a screw(s) from the inside of the helmet. If you change cameras, the screw can be removed and the infill taken off.50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
degeneration 5 #3 June 14, 2015 As above - a possible option is to change the stills camera to something like one of the Sony (or other brand) mirrorless cameras (A5000, A5100, A6000 etc) that are MUCH smaller, so have less of an overhang, which would reduce the extent of the snag hazard as a start. Then fill in the space between the helmet and camera. If you didn't want to drill the helmet, what I've done with mine (I've got a different helmet, and a mirrorless camera, so my overhang was no where near as notable) is fit a thin aluminium plate to the base of the camera, through which it attaches to my quick release. I then filled the gap between that plate and the helmet with very firm foam, but had it fixed to the plate rather than the helmet. The likes of polymold, polymorph etc mouldable plastic would work just as well. That way when I take the camera off, the "filler" stuff goes with it, rather than staying fixed on the helmet. But the height of my overhang at its biggest point was only about 2cm tops, so not as pronounced as yours.Sky Switches - Affordable stills camera tongue switches and conversion adaptors, supporting various brands of camera (Canon, Sony, Nikon, Panasonic). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnmatrix 21 #4 June 16, 2015 What could be perfect for you is the Cookie flat top plate, but unfortunately they no longer manufacture them. Cheap solution might be taping some big blocks of polystyrene foam in key places. Expensive solution is to get a nice big flat top camera helmet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AHoyThere 0 #5 June 16, 2015 johnmatrix... solution is to get a nice big flat top camera helmet. That's what I was thinking. Especially with a nice, big, heavy 5DmkII like that one. Something like this... https://www.chutingstar.com/skydive/stock-tonfly-cc2-skydiving-camera-helmet or this... https://www.chutingstar.com/skydive/bonehead-flat-top-pro or this... https://www.chutingstar.com/skydive/vapor-wes-pro-3431 Good luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
