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| mathew | "Here's the same full size with the levels adjusted: " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | " This is 37% of the original panorama: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136076606@N02/28323968824/in/dateposted-public/ " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Further panoramas from more recent flights " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "While we were hacking away on this, I tried two landscape mounts for the camera. Adding a small ball head to the top was pretty successful: T..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "One precaution to prevent crushing the pole is to attach only to the double-thick area at the top of the tube. Right where the pole sections stack,..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "@Ecta64 that's interesting, and it makes sense that the panorama would turn out that way since the bend at the top of the pole is rotating along wi..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "That's good thinking Chris, I'll be adding a note in the instructions about the lanyard. I'll have to experiment with some plugs that might work, t..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This looks like nicely elegant and simple solution. I might add two things: 1) a lanyard that connects the camera to the second smallest pole secti..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks, Chris! I used a Fusion 360 model with the full assembly in the "wireframe with visible edges only" visual style and took screenshots, th..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ranon those are excellent assembly diagrams. Did you make those in Fusion 360? Is there a special mode for that? It looks like a week of work. Wel..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| hagitkeysar | "I love the distorted grass image. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Of these options, the rubber band holds the firmest-- simplest and cheapest, though rather ugly looking. @cfastie's points about pins are good one..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "The other option was the zip tie only method from all my little pendulum rig notes. You snug up a zip tie as tight as you can, then slide if off th..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "another thought is using a rubber band wrapped around the dowel, then clamped with a small zip tie. The combination of pressure from the tie on the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Wooden dowels are widely available, but they also vary widely in quality. Oak and sometimes maple dowels are fairly reliable and birch, poplar, and..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks for the input Chris! The reason I have been using wooden dowels is for their wide availability (can be consistently found at any craft, har..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "With some rig/camera combinations and with certain wind conditions any of these techniques could work. I might use any of them if I assembled the r..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Your suggestion is to continuously pan, and then increment the tilt? That is sensible. One reason why we were doing a separate pan and tilt mechan..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "A weakness of spring powered, egg timer powered, or rubber band powered KAP rigs is that they don't stop panning to take each photo. As long as the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "The wire might not be visible, but I had the wire through the PVC, and wrapped the line around that. It worked great. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks Chris! I'll reverse that nylon insert nut. Yes it does! That's one of the great features in Fusion 360, there's a plug-in that actually let..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "For oblique shots, there's a simple way to hang a miniball tripod head off the bottom of a pendulum. Did you use the wire to connect the PVC to t..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That looks really good. The components look just like the ones I use. I think the nut might be reversed. The nylon insert nut has the nylon part on..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Hi Chris, Just made a couple changes to the Saturn V model and they should be all updated to Thingiverse. Are these the correct components and ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago |