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Re: Stability of cars/rails?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:06:52 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Mike Thorn wrote:
> 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 6541 and 6542), that should keep it even more
> steady, although it would require a nice flat surface, but that would
> already be the case for the track anyway.
wow, that's getting complicated.
how about a 12v motor, at the center, with a platform built onto it. you get
stability (by removing the bogey aspect), and simplicity.
if need be, i can post a mockup, but somehow i don't see this as a problem
requiring realism, just simplicity.
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| (...) Both ideas would work excellently for an external 360-degree pan, but once again I forgot to mention one thing: the subject is in the middle. To clarify: I'm doing a film where I have a cardboard "valley" full of sand. I want to do a pan all (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Stability of cars/rails?
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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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