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Re: Stability of cars/rails?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:48:29 GMT
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At 09:26 PM 10/12/2003, you wrote:
> If you took the monorail and ran it at 4.5 volts (to slow it down), you
> might get a very wobble free ride..... but I haven't tested it.
There is also one thing I forgot to mention when I made the original
post...I'm not doing realtime filming. I'm doing stop-motion. Therefore the
need for a wobbleless system is even greater. Also, to make it harder, I
cannot trigger the camera from my PC, so I have to have my hands on it the
whole time. All of which means that I can't use a powered train,
unfortunately.
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Agreed, and I even take advantage of the wobble in MTW-1003 to good effect,
> > however in this case the original poster is looking for a jitter free way
> > to do
> > circular pans with a camera, so wobble is not his friend in this application.
Not a bit. Since I have to be touching the camera all the time, it really
needs to be rock-solid is possible.
Thanks for all the input, everyone. It's really helped a lot. :) From what
you're saying, it seems like even a double bogie flatbed has to be better
than what I have now.
~Mike
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| (...) So you want to mount a camera on a flatbed and put it on a circle? If so you might want to make an arm that goes into the center, and put some weight on it and a single wheel or even one of those boat "glider pads" round 2*2 under it (as in (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| If you took the monorail and ran it at 4.5 volts (to slow it down), you might get a very wobble free ride..... but I haven't tested it. -Tom (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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