360 degree pan???

rook

rook

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Help, ideas???

I need to build a device that i can mount to my tripod and will pan my camera around 360 degrees.

I imagine it like a record player turn table or one of those trays inside a microwave.

I would also like to have a dial to control speed.

I'm not skilled at building this sort of thing and I'm not even sure where to start.

ideas???

Thanks
-rook
 
I've been thinking of looking at some machine shop tools..lathes and saws and such...that have rotating platforms operated by a worm gear...should I ever decide I need a DIY gearhead system.

The available stuff here is crap. You might have better luck.
 
i have an idea.
buy a microwave and take everything apart except the motor and rotating plate. then apply the dvx on the plate. serve hot :)

whatever you want to use, you have to make sure the motor spins the system smooth enough and vibration free. it's not as easy as it seems. especially at lower speeds with the friction issues.

Andrea
 
Be quite... I mean QUITE cautious with overloading voltages on a motor. Don't use anything the motor isn't built for. You'll fry the motor, and quite possibly in the middle of a shot, because it'll work for a while, but then sieze up on you. A lot of simple motors like the ones for solar powered plant turners and things like that just don't have the right guts to be able to handle 12 or sometimes even 9 volts. I'd recommend going with somewhere around 3 volts, as that should be close enough to what the motor's used to.

Good luck with your project, and if nothing works out, just put the camera on a tripod and make sure you're always behind it. :grin:
 
Have you seen those 360 tours on the web? Many of them are shot using a device like this http://www.0-360.com/#Optic

I've been thinking about building a lense like this to use on a DVX100, then I heard that Voyager 360 is coming out with a video lense. Not sure what the cost is, but these designs are a good place for a DIYer to get some ideas.

Rob
 
mrblue1022,

I did a test shot where I put a stainless steel salad bowl on its side on my bed, set up the camera lense toward it at a very specif angle and got what looked like a wide angle fisheye lense effect. The camera had to be at a very precise angle though because an inch one way or the other and the reflection of the camera itself would appear in the shot. I got the idea to do this when I walked into my kitchen and saw the salad bowl sitting on its side after it got washed and noticed the extreme wide angle view it gave. Try it.

Dave
 
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