Yes: Sometimes, low tech and common sense trumps all the fancy stuff. :-) Thanks! I'm going to have to get back there again. They have some amazing planes.
Happy New Year! G On Dec 31, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I took a couple of days drive to visit friends in southern California, >> and spent an afternoon at the Palm Springs Air Museum. This beautiful >> old Stearman was waiting to be fired up. >> >> https://flic.kr/p/Ce4gFh > > That's a lovely shot Godders. Years ago I mounted a small bullet cam (in > the days before anyone had ever heard of a GoPro!) to the wing of a > Stearman. We had a special mount provided and I used all the jigs and > rigs to mount it to film a reporter in the passenger seat. The plane > went up, came back and when I reviewed the footage I found a vibration > making it unusable. I took the jigs off and got some camera tape (aka > gaffer tape, duct tape etc) and taped the thing right onto the wing. > Thus time the video was as smooth as my head. Ever since, anything to do > with mounting cameras to vehicles/boats/aircraft with engines and speed, > mounts go straight in the bin and the tape comes out. Never fails. > > Thanks for stirring the memories! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
