ROLLE - skate dolly

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I've looked at this type of construction before so I wont take any credit inventing it. But when I walked in a sports shop and saw a skater kit, complete with track and wheel for about $30 I said to myself - Hey, why not try building something like a skate dolly!

To complete the assembly I got a metal plate, pre drilled with lots of holes. I had to drill holes for the tracks and for a 3/8 screw to get a pan/tilt head onto it.

I had a Manfrotto 391RC laying around so I put it on and made this short video. A quick test so not 100% smooth.

Used my Canon 7Ds and 16-35L and 35L lenses. No lighting or grading just straight edit in Avid and then to vimeo.

Enjoy!

 
Great stuff. Like that it's light enough to hold and roll down a wall for vertical moves. Just add a 'track' made of MDF board that's attached to a stand or two and you've got a very small and inexpensive portable rig. In which sports store did you find the skater kit?
 
Isn´t it somehow remarkable, that after years of the isanely expensive P+S Skater, the design finally found its way back to its "roots"?
(Of course the P+S is a million times more sophisticated, BUT this baby at least offers straight track shots at P+S shipping and handling costs...)
 
The vertical shots were a nice surprise. Great shots. Maybe if you add some weight and mass on the floor shots it will help keep you steady.

I was looking for a simpler quote but didn't want to rewrite Newton..

Newton's First Law of Motion:

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Newton's Second Law of Motion:

[FONT=helvetica,geneva,arial] II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.


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Very nice dolly and camera work. I like to see guys do good work without spending an arm and a leg on gear. It shows real creativity!
 
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