soloshot ....cool !

That's actually not a terrible price either. However, security would be a big issue for me.
 
I can see a use for this: multi camera shooting. Let's take the surfer example. He might only catch that wave once but you need a LS and a MCU. You could set this thing to get the wide shot, and you can be right next to it with your long lens for the MCU. Not sure how often I would use it though. Maybe if I was shooting a lot of sports or one man band live events.
 
Interesting. Not so much the device as the large number of people who devote their life to surfing and the recording thereof.
 
until now, never has there been a product that so many people were excited about... and of course by people, i mean, camera thieves. joking aside, i think if it pans smoothly enough crusher might be right. i'd like to see it in action on a slider too.
 
Interesting. Not so much the device as the large number of people who devote their life to surfing and the recording thereof.
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Terry.....I see you're from Oklahoma . Don't they have one of those water parks with a wave machine ?
 
I had this idea a couple of times while kiteboarding a few years ago. Ofcourse I lack the technical scills, investment and motivation to produce it myself. I'm glad someone else did it.

On my beach I know I can keep it safe, (kite)surfers got eachothers backs. Many are not to mess with :)
 
I used to install similar automatic tracking pan/tilt mounts in the distance learning classrooms I designed -- they could follow a teacher as they moved around the room. One version even zoomed the lens to keep the subject a constant size in the frame. This one appears to be pan only, but the price is a lot less than the $3K or so that the old ones cost, and it looks as though the tracking range must be a lot longer if they can use it for surfing and such.

The problem with the old CameraMan units (that was the brand name, but I've forgotten the manufacturer) actually didn't have to do with their performance tracking the subjects, it was that the battery life in the remote units the teachers wore was terrible. They would use a 9V battery about every 1-1/2 hours, which meant you basically needed a new one for every class taught in the room. We bought them in cases of 720 if I remember right!

- Greg
 
bitcrusher said:
Prefect for some event jobs. Get one for each speaker. Maybe a good addition to a slider.
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The arm band looks like the size of 3 altoid boxes, not sure how many people you could convince to stick that into their pocket. But perhaps if they make one that isn't "sport proof" that is smaller. Or one attached to wireless a lav mic? Or even build something into a handheld wireless mic.

The addition to a slider is genius though. As long as the panning is smooth, attach the arm band to the chair of someone being interviewed & start sliding like crazy. I'd be interested to see how well it works.

Greg Smith said:
They would use a 9V battery about every 1-1/2 hours, which meant you basically needed a new one for every class taught in the room. We bought them in cases of 720 if I remember right!

- Greg
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Wow, that is impressively poor performance. Considering how long I can use an iPhone with such a thin battery, there should be options out there to add battery life.
 
I live on Oahu, home of Pipeline and Sunset Beach, and I'm thinking about making a kit for this and renting it out to surfers. If I can figure out the security deposit thing and and the theft thing, I think the surfers here will go nuts over it.
 
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