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Rick Merrill
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
why a mono-pod? |
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I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
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Brian
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
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Rick Merrill wrote:
| Quote: | I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
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If you are a tourist, they have two uses:
1) provide some image stability with little more inconvenience than
cayying around a walking stick,
2) can be held up to film above the heads of a crowd.
I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
--brian
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"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping
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PTravel
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
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"Brian" <fake@fake> wrote in message news:436aaa06@clear.net.nz...
| Quote: | Rick Merrill wrote:
I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
If you are a tourist, they have two uses:
1) provide some image stability with little more inconvenience than
cayying around a walking stick,
2) can be held up to film above the heads of a crowd.
I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
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1 and 2, certainly. And here are some more:
- if you wedge it up against something, e.g. a wall, table, tree, etc., it
is as stable as a tripod.
- many venues don't allow tripods, but don't know what to make of a monopod.
I've used them successfully in museums and the like that ban tripods.
- a variation on number 2, above, but they also let you extend the camera
where you otherwise could not reach, e.g. over the side of a boat, out the
window of a moving car, etc.
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--brian
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Bill Farnsworth
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
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"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
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Here is an excellent example of how a monopod is put to good use by the
great Nino Giannotti.
It might look simple, but the monopod is only attached to the front hard
point on the camera body, allowing the operator (Nino, in this case) to use
the camera's shoulder pad.
http://www.nino-g.com/inventions.html
Regards,
Bill F.
www.billfarnsworthvideo.com |
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Richard Crowley
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
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"Rick Merrill" wrote ...
| Quote: | I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
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They are used for holding a camera steady in places where there isn't
room (or time) to set up a tripod, or where you don't have capacity
to haul a tripod around. Monopods are clearly not self-supporting
like tripods are, but they to a surprising job of keeing a camera more
steady than hand-held. I also use them for raising the camera up to
get a "bird's-eye" shot. |
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Martin D. Bartsch
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:23:34 +1300, Brian <fake@fake> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
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It can help when you meet angry hooligans after a match |
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davesvideo@aol.com
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:
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Martin D. Bartsch wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:23:34 +1300, Brian <fake@fake> wrote:
I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
It can help when you meet angry hooligans after a match
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As a weapon, it is easier to swing and far superior to a tripod. When
mine is folded up snd carried with a shoulder sling, it has a silloute
very like a rifle and I have been questioned about it a couple of
times.
Dave |
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Bill Fright
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:
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Martin D. Bartsch wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:23:34 +1300, Brian <fake@fake> wrote:
I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
It can help when you meet angry hooligans after a match
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Speaking of hooligans... I was walking through Lafayette park across
from the White House and was attacked by an angry homeless guy. The
secret service was there immediately and assured me that everyone one
was going to jail if I whacked him with my Sachtler. I was just seconds
from doing just that. In hind sight it would have surely been ugly had I
hit him with it.
I remember seeing monopods used by still guys on the sidelines at NFL
games in the astrodome. They used those huge white canon lenses and I
always thought it was about the weight. It certainly wasn't slow shutter
speed! |
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David McCall
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject:
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"Bill Fright" <billfright@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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Martin D. Bartsch wrote:
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:23:34 +1300, Brian <fake@fake> wrote:
I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
It can help when you meet angry hooligans after a match
Speaking of hooligans... I was walking through Lafayette park across from
the White House and was attacked by an angry homeless guy. The secret
service was there immediately and assured me that everyone one was going
to jail if I whacked him with my Sachtler. I was just seconds from doing
just that. In hind sight it would have surely been ugly had I hit him with
it.
It's good that you were able to practice some restraint. A Sachtler up side |
his head might have put you in Jail, and the homeless guy in the hospital.
| Quote: | I remember seeing monopods used by still guys on the sidelines at NFL
games in the astrodome. They used those huge white canon lenses and I
always thought it was about the weight. It certainly wasn't slow shutter
speed!
Those long white lenses might have been in the range of 600-1000mm, |
and they might have been using them at f8-16 to get enough depth of field
that focus wouldn't be as much of an issue. Weight might have been the
main issue because the rig would be very front heavy if hand held, but even
the blur from camera motion could be an issue as well with a lens that long.
It may be hard to hold a camera steady under those conditions.
David |
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danny
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject:
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Rick Merrill wrote:
| Quote: | I'm mystified by the "mono-pod" (c.f. tri-pod)
Are they "for" something or are they used in sets?
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The DvRigJunior for DV hand held cameras and the EngRig for shoulder
camcorders are
hip supported mono pods, the pod is spring loaded so the length is self
adjusted during
the shoot and it also absorbs walking shoots.
www.dvtec.tv |
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Martin D. Bartsch
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:23:34 +1300, Brian <fake@fake> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm sure there are more creative and imaginative uses, too...
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And I remember a cameraman. After an accident he had problems with his
backbone and so they made him a harness with a tubular so that he
could take the camera on the shoulder and the end of the monopod
rested in the tubular. |
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