New toy - 40 foot pole !

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I have been given this on semi-permanent loan by my father:

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The idea is that you put your expensive, fragile and delicate SLR on the top and hoist it up. From there you can snap away and control the camera using a 360 degree remote pan/tilt platform.

You can then turn this:

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into this:

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Although the above were just taken in my back garden I want to offer this service to estate agents and offer them some difficult to achieve images for their marketing brochures.
 
Essential peeping Tom kit, quality. :D

Is it a case of adjust, send it up, snap, bring it down, tweak, up she goes, snap etc..? Excuse the blatant double entendre, but is the action on the pole fast and smooth?
 
Don't know, my dad bought it a couple of years ago and never really used it.

The camera direction and be controlled from the ground using a dpad controller type thing on a motorised pan/tilt head.

It seems pretty stable thankfully.
 
randal24 said:
Essential peeping Tom kit, quality. :D

Is it a case of adjust, send it up, snap, bring it down, tweak, up she goes, snap etc..? Excuse the blatant double entendre, but is the action on the pole fast and smooth?
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If it was and you have a recent live view enabled camera you could hook up it's USB to a laptop and use one of the camera control apps to make your adjustments...
 
That is actually AWESOME!
Think of all the use, from Architecture type shots for business to shooting a field event outdoors where a crowd maybe in the way, or even an almost bird's eye view of an event! Can you control your zoom?
 
Might be good for taking pics of a house for an estate agent but beware of taking shots of "views" that you cant actually see from a window etc. in the house as you can get in a lot of trouble for that!
 
I was talking to someone who had one of these a few weeks ago and he had taken some great shots with it. He purchased his a couple of years ago for around £1500 but as already mentioned you have to be careful as to what you're actually taking a shot of in some situations!
 
You should invite the ladies round to admire your magnificent erection.

Saw these at the last Focus On Imaging, they looked useful but I guess a limited amount of (legal) uses, sure you could find some work with some estate agents, or maybe hire it out to their photographers etc.
 
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