WhereDreamsAreBorn
Carbonite Member
I am posting here as it is for my canon 5d that i will be purchasing soon. Not sure if i should post this somewhere else.
Anyway, i am going to purchase a hand trolly, that both stands up vertically but it can also be used as a horizontal platform. The only reason i am buying this is so i can transport my equipment easily (the camera, lenses, tripod, glidecam, other stuff, etc.)
you can see it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...59JY009JT0SR48
But then i thought to myself, as this hand trolly can be used horizontally, maybe it could function as a dolly. But then looking at it, one set of wheels is much smaller than the other two wheels, and i imagine the results, even on perfectly flat ground, would still be a slightly shaky and unprofessional looking.
But then i thought saw that you can buy skateboard dolly channels/troughs that are design to house the big wheels of the doorway dolly. You can see them here: http://www.cinemagadgets.com/skatebo...nel-p-671.html
So basically i could buy these and sit the wheels of the hand trolly into the channels. The these channels with the skateboard wheels then sit on and slide along the tracks. Somehow i would have to modify the wheels to fit snuggly and still, into these channels.
Also, the other problem is that the hand trolly is basically a metal skeleton, theres no actual physical board to stand on, or place a camera on, so i would have to build something for that.
I just wondered if anyone here thinks this could be done. I only thought of it as i have no track/dolly system yet, and it would be great if my transport trolly could be modify to work as a dolly. Then it just makes carry all my equipment very very economical.
Anyway, i am going to purchase a hand trolly, that both stands up vertically but it can also be used as a horizontal platform. The only reason i am buying this is so i can transport my equipment easily (the camera, lenses, tripod, glidecam, other stuff, etc.)
you can see it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...59JY009JT0SR48
But then i thought to myself, as this hand trolly can be used horizontally, maybe it could function as a dolly. But then looking at it, one set of wheels is much smaller than the other two wheels, and i imagine the results, even on perfectly flat ground, would still be a slightly shaky and unprofessional looking.
But then i thought saw that you can buy skateboard dolly channels/troughs that are design to house the big wheels of the doorway dolly. You can see them here: http://www.cinemagadgets.com/skatebo...nel-p-671.html
So basically i could buy these and sit the wheels of the hand trolly into the channels. The these channels with the skateboard wheels then sit on and slide along the tracks. Somehow i would have to modify the wheels to fit snuggly and still, into these channels.
Also, the other problem is that the hand trolly is basically a metal skeleton, theres no actual physical board to stand on, or place a camera on, so i would have to build something for that.
I just wondered if anyone here thinks this could be done. I only thought of it as i have no track/dolly system yet, and it would be great if my transport trolly could be modify to work as a dolly. Then it just makes carry all my equipment very very economical.
