puredrifting
Major Contributor
Hi all:
I have a shoot next week where the client has requested that I place the C300 MKII above a small tabletop scene facing straight down.
I've sort of jury rigged this sort of setup before just using a 5/8" male spud to a 3/8" or 1/4" 20 male to the bottom of the camera, using
a grip head to position the camera. The downside is there is little adjustability and the camera cannot be panned to adjust for parralax very
easily. It would be cool to use our Sachtler or Miller heads mounted up on the boom pole somehow but neither are flat base,
both are 75mm bowl mount. I have a pile of flat base heads laying around but they are all cheap Manfrotto crap, which are useless and
definitely cannot accomdate a C300 MKII.
Any other tabletop or food/cooking show shooters mount medium sized cameras directly overhead? If so, how to you do it? What grip pieces
to you use? I sold off most of my 3 ton package when I sold off my truck that could carry it but I did keep a Norms Steel three rise stand
and a few C-Stands and Sandbags. So I have a fairly steady base I can build but I am not sure how to best mount the C300 MKII using
one of our 75mm ball heads without bungeeing the entire tripod to the boom, which seems like an un-elegant way to do it.
Suggestions for easily rigging a medium/size weight camera 6' in the air, directly over a tabletop setup with a 75mm ball head?
Alternately, I could rig the Fujifilm X-T3 overhead much easier because of it's size and weight and use the C300 MKII as second angle on our Rhino EVO Motion?
I have a shoot next week where the client has requested that I place the C300 MKII above a small tabletop scene facing straight down.
I've sort of jury rigged this sort of setup before just using a 5/8" male spud to a 3/8" or 1/4" 20 male to the bottom of the camera, using
a grip head to position the camera. The downside is there is little adjustability and the camera cannot be panned to adjust for parralax very
easily. It would be cool to use our Sachtler or Miller heads mounted up on the boom pole somehow but neither are flat base,
both are 75mm bowl mount. I have a pile of flat base heads laying around but they are all cheap Manfrotto crap, which are useless and
definitely cannot accomdate a C300 MKII.
Any other tabletop or food/cooking show shooters mount medium sized cameras directly overhead? If so, how to you do it? What grip pieces
to you use? I sold off most of my 3 ton package when I sold off my truck that could carry it but I did keep a Norms Steel three rise stand
and a few C-Stands and Sandbags. So I have a fairly steady base I can build but I am not sure how to best mount the C300 MKII using
one of our 75mm ball heads without bungeeing the entire tripod to the boom, which seems like an un-elegant way to do it.
Suggestions for easily rigging a medium/size weight camera 6' in the air, directly over a tabletop setup with a 75mm ball head?
Alternately, I could rig the Fujifilm X-T3 overhead much easier because of it's size and weight and use the C300 MKII as second angle on our Rhino EVO Motion?
