Motorised head for timelapse

I don't have any direct advice... except to suggest you try another forum that I frequent.

The "CommieCam" users group is a bunch of people (including myself) who are cinematographers using Russian motion picture cameras... mostly 35mm Konvas and Kinor cameras, and the LOMO cine lenses. There are several people in that group who do time-lapse photography (some really great stuff), and know all about various time-lapse heads and rigs.

It's a small group, good people, very friendly and helpful. I bet if you pose your question there you will get a number of good responses.

You can find them at konvas.org

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

I did a search in google for "tutorial diy timelapse pan" (minus quotes) and found several videos and tutorials depicting panning timelapse rigs for almost no money. I figure if you just want to play, build it yourself so you can decide of its worth the dough to buy a motorized rig. I'm working on a diy motorized slider right now - its really not hard and actually quite inexpensive to do.










- a kitchen timer with a head literally glued on.

Searching through YouTube, I found so many references, I may have to build one now! ;)

Nobody cares what gear you use except other camera operators, but the videos aren't for camera operators, but the average person. ;)

Jonathan Ziegler
http://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

I like how one guy goes direct-drive by gluing right to ther mechanism, and the other guy uses a belt drive. His belt drive is sloppy, and you can see hesitations in the results, but he's onto something with the belt drive idea, in that you can vary the "gear ratio" of the belt and idler sprocket and derive different transit speeds, whereas the glued-on deal only has a one-minute per minute speed.

These clips were a good find; thanks for posting them.

Then you might enjoy browsing this site:

http://www.servocity.com/