A Video Tethering Dolly From A Surveying Tripod
Nov 13, 2012
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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This little video is quite an interesting submission to our How I took it contest by Julien Robitaille.
There are only 2 weeks left to submit your entries, so don’t wait for the last minute.
The video after the jump shows how a gathering of various stuff found around the house (or garage) can be re-purposed to be a video/tether dolly. While I am not sure about the saving on this build, it does show a few interesting uses for aluminum plates, surveying tripods, and the useful four heads tripod accessory from Manfrotto.
Actually, I’ve been getting quite a few submission about re-purposing surveying tripods . Since they don’t belong in the ‘photography’ section they are a great value for not a lot of money.
Here is the complete tether dolly
Using a Mafrotto 400PL-MED plate as the base
Using a Manfrotto quick release and aluminum plate for a Tripod rest
Davis & Sanford W3 Universal Folding Dolly as the base and re-engineering the tripod legs to end with a soft leg tips
Final look in use
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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