Januari 12, 2009
Because I had the flu last week, I had to stay inside for a few days and that is very
very booring for an active person like me.
Then my son Vincent had the very good idea to build a 5 meter high tripod for a photocamera
to make aerialphotos without flying..... That was a nice chance to kill some time and
to do something useful.
Me took the lower tripod part of an old tripod where the head was broken and mounted a
connection tube on it.
Then we bought three pieces of aluminium pipe of one meter and one piece of one meter
with a smaller diameter for the connections. We cut the smaller diameter pipe in three
equal parts and fitted them in one side of the three bigger diameter pipes. Now we could
make a three meter vertical pipe on top of the old tripod.
Then I mounted the old head of another tripod where the bottom (tripod) part was broken
on top of another piece of pipe and used another smaller diameter pipe for a connection.
Now we could mount the head on top of the tripod with its extension tubes to create a big
tripod of almost 5 meters high.
I mounted my Nikon S210 on the head and we made our first "aerial" picture of the two of us.
The two proud builders
Aerial picture of our neighbourhood at night
We intend to do a lot more testing with the tripod with various cameras, with and without
USB remote camera control.
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