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Matthew Bennett
10-06-2009, 05:41 AM
Yesterday I took a hobby motor and built a drill/corkscrew type rig - ridiculously rough as you can see from the photo - but it worked great - see footage below.

Now I can finally do those dramatic slowly spinning shots from the ceiling!

http://qmediasolutions.com/guest/CAMERA_TESTS/Drill_rig_h264.mov

It scares me to death to have my 7D hanging off a crummy little surplus motor, but I finally manned up and took this test - now I just have to figure out few safety precautions and I'm good to shoot:

It's impossible to get it in a photo, but here's one anyway:
http://www.qmediasolutions.com/guest/CAMERA_TESTS/Drill_rig_motor.jpg

Enjoy!
Richard J. Johnson
10-06-2009, 07:28 AM
whatever you do, don't have some guy drop to his knees and scream NOOOOOOO! with his head back, as this shot takes place.:Drogar-Shock(DBG):

seriously, it looks very cool.
hermmermferm
10-06-2009, 07:40 AM
Love this! Nice job, please post more pictures of your rig!
vcfilms
10-06-2009, 09:52 AM
Very cool. Love the look of the shot.
vnguyen972
10-06-2009, 09:55 AM
Very cool. It'd be much cooler if the camera starts spinning down slowly :-)
Matthew Bennett
10-06-2009, 10:36 AM
Very cool. It'd be much cooler if the camera starts spinning down slowly :-)

Yeah, the best example of this would be attached to a slow crane down to subject...
jls4
10-06-2009, 11:24 AM
I know I'm late, but just checked out your website and the Terminal - d&mn that's hot. Great work. Love the spinning cam too! Wow!
FatDaddy
10-06-2009, 11:42 AM
Pretty cool (not sure about the acting though :violin:)
JFEditorIV
10-06-2009, 06:50 PM
Definitely try attaching that to a crane. Looked great.
SonicStates
10-06-2009, 08:20 PM
Very cool indeed. Your reel was really gripping. Impressed.