Hilux Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) Just had to share this! Great concept and a nice change from the standard GoPro views. Might make some a little dizzy! http://www.wimp.com/centrifuge-iphone-ski-year/ Edited February 10, 2016 by Hilux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebiker Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Holy cow...that is incredible. I get the fact that it's a camera (Phone?) attached to a string and whirled above his head like a lasso....but: a) how does he keep the lens pointed at him the whole time? b) I see several (at least two) "strings" leading off-camera...they seem spread wide apart...so not clear what they are attached to (two ends of the phone?)....maybe that's the answer to "a"? His editing (varied speed, etc) does a great job at preventing the vertigo/dizzyness one might otherwise feel watching this. Amazing the creativity out there in people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilux Posted February 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Holy cow...that is incredible. I get the fact that it's a camera (Phone?) attached to a string and whirled above his head like a lasso....but: a) how does he keep the lens pointed at him the whole time? b) I see several (at least two) "strings" leading off-camera...they seem spread wide apart...so not clear what they are attached to (two ends of the phone?)....maybe that's the answer to "a"? His editing (varied speed, etc) does a great job at preventing the vertigo/dizzyness one might otherwise feel watching this. Amazing the creativity out there in people! I noticed the 2 strings/tethers as well. iPhone on one and perhaps a counter weight of sorts to stabilize/balance on the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe T Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Curious indeed. Based on some of the shots it seems like the camera is not even attached to the end of those strings that are visible in the shot. Take a look at 2:16 just before he falls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 a) how does he keep the lens pointed at him the whole time? b) I see several (at least two) "strings" leading off-camera...they seem spread wide apart...so not clear what they are attached to (two ends of the phone?)....maybe that's the answer to "a"? I don't know Apple phones, but chances are they're the same as standard phones. So... how about.... pick the side of the phone with the best lens, and then attach one string to each of the four corners of the phone. Make these four strings into a "bridle" by joining them together, somewhere nearer to the phone than the shortest focal distance it has, probably. Then fasten one string to that bridle, and whiz it around your head. I think that will work, but I don't mean to suggest it's easy and chances are you have to play around a lot to learn what actually works. You could, as suggested, just use centripetal force to keep it "in line", perhaps. I'm not sure that would give you the same stability, but you could use the same approach with a bridle, except fasten it on the "outside" of the phone and stick a weight on the end of it, so it's a stabilizer for the phone, keeping it tangential to the radius of the main string... but you'd still need to fasten the string to the phone so I'm not sure this achieves much (arguably replacing four visible strings with one). Presumably you'd want to have rotational speed (required to maintain it high enough) as low as possible. As the string(s) would be presumably fairly static relative to the camera, and (unlike a pole) fairly thin, you may be able to clone them out of the video. You can clone poles out of GoPro video, but it's fiddly and very time consuming, and hard if the board is at all visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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