4 inch screws, 4 ft poles..... love it John. I was a teenager when the metric system arrived in the very early 70s and yet I still cannot visualise the size of anything that is described in mm, cm or metres, so a big thumbs up from me on that point. I always learn something from your videos and in this one I have come away with 'bank poles'. It is amazing how much equipment intended for hunting, shooting and fishing can be utilised for wildlife photography. And at a fraction of the cost. A folding hide for photography will be half the price of the same hide with the word 'shooting' in front of it 😊. I look forward to seeing more of your work through 2023. Best wishes.
Thanks Robert, I was a teen in the late 70,s and I have an imperial brain too. I,ve been working with both metric and imperial all my life but my brain only seems to visualise things in feet and inches.. 😊 Regards John.
Great video John just got me a bag of the eyelet screws just waiting for a lens hood to arrive to finish of my housing keep up the work very much appreciated and very inspirational
Hello from across the pond. Found just what I needed for the flash mount in trees! Bear season starts in a couple months and I hope putting them up higher than on my light stands saves me a few. They are curious beasts.
Welcome to my channel Stan, I'm glad you found the video useful. Good luck photographing the bears. I have seen from others experience how destructive they can be with photo equipment. I hope it helps to keep your gear safe. 👍
Happy New Year with best wishes from Greece! It's very very useful video for me. Thank you for your knowledge to share with us! I am waiting for next one.
How strange that I have spent the last week looking for components for exactly what you have discussed here. The only difficulty that cropped up frequently was ¼"UNC threads. So much of our fastener industry is geared to metrics and 6mm isn't useful for our purposes. The bank pole/storm pole idea was a leap of brilliance!
Thanks Rik. Here is a link to where I got my 1/4-20 UNC bolts: www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk/BZP-G5_ScrewBolt_HexHd_UNCoarse0.2500_THRfull.html Hope this helps. 👍
Hello John, great video, very helpful! Could you please share the settings you usually use on your sensor/camera/flash? I have s NikonD5200, camptraptions sensor v.2 and SB28 flashes. Guess it is quite similar to your equipment? I use programme 9 on the sensor, highest sensitivity, around 5 second interval between shots. I have the flashes on TTL, the camera on F10, ISO 320, 1/250. I am quite pleased with the image quality but I miss a lot of shots, and 2 of three shots are without flash. I guess I am doing something wrong?
Hi, A couple of reasons you might be having problems is firstly the max flash sync speed for the D5200 is 1/200, if your shutter speed is faster than this (1/250) the flash will not show up, so 1/200 max with the shutter. The other problem you may be encountering is with your flashes set to TTL as TTL is not compatible with the D5200 and SB28 flashes, so your flashes need to be on manual and you will have to adjust the power output manually until you get the correct exposure. As a starting point, for example, with your camera set to F10, ISO 400, S/S 1/200 with your flash set to manual, try starting with a power setting of about 1/8th at a distance of around 3m, will put you in the ballpark and you can make slight adjustments to the power output from there. As for the sensor settings, I normally use program 2, which wakes the flashes prior to firing. If i am only after nocturnal animals i will also turn switch 1 on so it will only fire at night. See my previous video here, where I discuss it in more detail: th-cam.com/video/FMeyxnGpKxw/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps. 👍
HI john. Love all your vids. You capture amazing pics. I am currently getting into camera trapping so I am researching the crap out of it. I have one question and please forgive my ignorance but do I need flash receivers if my flashes can be triggered wirelesly by my transmitter. I will be using 2 godox tt600 flashes and the xp pro transmitter. I will be using the poor man's option for the trigger sensor.. the snapshot sniper 2. Thanks
Hi Noel. Thanks for the kind words. Good to hear you are giving camera trapping a try, You wont need additional flash receivers as your flashes have them built in. I hope this helps and good luck with your camera trap project. 👍
hi John I just got my contraptions pip motion sensor v3 the prob I have is the sensor switches on and the receiver is working ok as tested it on my wireless flash and it working but when I try to send from the sensor wireless it doesn't open the shutter on the camera to take a photos any ideas what could be wrong do I need to buy a cable to connect the sensor to the camera or the receiver as say nothing is happening between the señor and camera but when I move about the sensor picks me up and flashes just no sending to camera
Hi Alan, you can fire your camera in 2 ways. Either you can have it hard wired direct from the V3 sensor via a cable to the remote terminal port on your camera ( make sure you have the correct cable that is compatible with your camera model) or to use it wirelessly, you can use a camtraptions receiver and connect the appropriate cable from the receiver to the remote terminal port of you camera. When using it wirelessly, It is important to have the receiver set to channel 1 which is the same channel that the V3 pir sensor uses. There are some video tutorials which may help on the camtraptions webite here: www.camtraptions.com/camera-traps/ and also an excellent E book which is free to download. I hope this helps. regards John.
@@JohnFormstone hi John am thinking maybe they have sent me wrong one as I have done all that and had my recover on channel one and then worked dow the channels but none them would work as I tryed my nikon d500 and d7500 and none of the cameras will work I set the receiver to 1 then the even tryed the ender on one then tryed one on one and one on channel two but still won't work I got it flashing when near it just won't send to camera
Maybe it would be worth contacting Camtraptions and explain your problem, I have found them helpful in the past, Hopefully they will get it sorted for you.
Hi John, One thing we camera-trappers should never do: Use screws in healthy trees. Any damage to trees should be avoided. Unless one wants to get into a conflict with the forester or owner of the forest,
There's nothing problem for the tree, I'm a forester and I am sure for it! I don't think one or few screws will affect its growth at all! It's the same when we pricked ourselves with a needle!
@@fotolovvp Thanks Valentin for your expert insight. I've been told by our forester not to do this to trees, of course, I honor his request. I just mentioned it, because I found (in my area) that it is essential to avoid conflicts with other forest users.
@@fotolovvp well thats not true, first of all you need to know what type of tree it is, for an example birch are bleeders, screwing or cutting it those during spring for an example will affect the tree. use dead wood or some pole insted. as trappingalong said Any damage to trees should be avoided, 100% agrees. Nice video and setup do john
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Excellent videos John, you’ve a very natural and relaxed way of getting the info over and your photographs are stunning!
Thanks very much, glad you enjoy the videos. 👍
4 inch screws, 4 ft poles..... love it John. I was a teenager when the metric system arrived in the very early 70s and yet I still cannot visualise the size of anything that is described in mm, cm or metres, so a big thumbs up from me on that point.
I always learn something from your videos and in this one I have come away with 'bank poles'. It is amazing how much equipment intended for hunting, shooting and fishing can be utilised for wildlife photography. And at a fraction of the cost. A folding hide for photography will be half the price of the same hide with the word 'shooting' in front of it 😊.
I look forward to seeing more of your work through 2023.
Best wishes.
Thanks Robert, I was a teen in the late 70,s and I have an imperial brain too. I,ve been working with both metric and imperial all my life but my brain only seems to visualise things in feet and inches.. 😊 Regards John.
Great video John just got me a bag of the eyelet screws just waiting for a lens hood to arrive to finish of my housing keep up the work very much appreciated and very inspirational
Thanks James, I'm glad you found it useful. Good luck with the rest of your build. 👍
Great bit of info again John,Thanks and be Lucky ..
Thanks Dennis, i will try... 😊
meilleurs voeux pour 2023 et toujours des videos au top, merci
best wishes for 2023 and always top videos, thank you
Merci , best wishes to you too.
very informative video John..Happy new year..
Thanks John, Best wishes for 2023 to you too. 👍
Hello from across the pond. Found just what I needed for the flash mount in trees! Bear season starts in a couple months and I hope putting them up higher than on my light stands saves me a few. They are curious beasts.
Welcome to my channel Stan, I'm glad you found the video useful. Good luck photographing the bears. I have seen from others experience how destructive they can be with photo equipment. I hope it helps to keep your gear safe. 👍
Happy New Year with best wishes from Greece! It's very very useful video for me. Thank you for your knowledge to share with us! I am waiting for next one.
Thank you Valentin, Best wishes to you too. I hope 2023 is a great year for you. 😊
Verry helpfull. Bought some stuff for my own Setup. Great and very helpfull videos which you produce. 👍🙏🏻
Hi Wolfgang, I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. Have a great weekend. 👍
Great video, very useful
Thanks, glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing John the video. I will be looking into getting some of them.
Thanks Martin. 👍
How strange that I have spent the last week looking for components for exactly what you have discussed here. The only difficulty that cropped up frequently was ¼"UNC threads. So much of our fastener industry is geared to metrics and 6mm isn't useful for our purposes. The bank pole/storm pole idea was a leap of brilliance!
Thanks Rik. Here is a link to where I got my 1/4-20 UNC bolts: www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk/BZP-G5_ScrewBolt_HexHd_UNCoarse0.2500_THRfull.html
Hope this helps. 👍
John, thank you for this link.
Hello John, great video, very helpful! Could you please share the settings you usually use on your sensor/camera/flash?
I have s NikonD5200, camptraptions sensor v.2 and SB28 flashes. Guess it is quite similar to your equipment?
I use programme 9 on the sensor, highest sensitivity, around 5 second interval between shots. I have the flashes on TTL, the camera on F10, ISO 320, 1/250. I am quite pleased with the image quality but I miss a lot of shots, and 2 of three shots are without flash. I guess I am doing something wrong?
Hi, A couple of reasons you might be having problems is firstly the max flash sync speed for the D5200 is 1/200, if your shutter speed is faster than this (1/250) the flash will not show up, so 1/200 max with the shutter.
The other problem you may be encountering is with your flashes set to TTL as TTL is not compatible with the D5200 and SB28 flashes, so your flashes need to be on manual and you will have to adjust the power output manually until you get the correct exposure. As a starting point, for example, with your camera set to F10, ISO 400, S/S 1/200 with your flash set to manual, try starting with a power setting of about 1/8th at a distance of around 3m, will put you in the ballpark and you can make slight adjustments to the power output from there.
As for the sensor settings, I normally use program 2, which wakes the flashes prior to firing. If i am only after nocturnal animals i will also turn switch 1 on so it will only fire at night. See my previous video here, where I discuss it in more detail: th-cam.com/video/FMeyxnGpKxw/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps. 👍
@@JohnFormstone Thank you for the quick and thorough answer! I will do as you suggest, I see now what the problem is caused by.
HI john. Love all your vids. You capture amazing pics. I am currently getting into camera trapping so I am researching the crap out of it. I have one question and please forgive my ignorance but do I need flash receivers if my flashes can be triggered wirelesly by my transmitter. I will be using 2 godox tt600 flashes and the xp pro transmitter. I will be using the poor man's option for the trigger sensor.. the snapshot sniper 2. Thanks
Hi Noel. Thanks for the kind words. Good to hear you are giving camera trapping a try,
You wont need additional flash receivers as your flashes have them built in.
I hope this helps and good luck with your camera trap project. 👍
Good job John. I’ll try to do it 🙂
Thank you 👍
hi John I just got my contraptions pip motion sensor v3 the prob I have is the sensor switches on and the receiver is working ok as tested it on my wireless flash and it working but when I try to send from the sensor wireless it doesn't open the shutter on the camera to take a photos any ideas what could be wrong do I need to buy a cable to connect the sensor to the camera or the receiver as say nothing is happening between the señor and camera but when I move about the sensor picks me up and flashes just no sending to camera
Hi Alan, you can fire your camera in 2 ways. Either you can have it hard wired direct from the V3 sensor via a cable to the remote terminal port on your camera ( make sure you have the correct cable that is compatible with your camera model) or to use it wirelessly, you can use a camtraptions receiver and connect the appropriate cable from the receiver to the remote terminal port of you camera. When using it wirelessly, It is important to have the receiver set to channel 1 which is the same channel that the V3 pir sensor uses. There are some video tutorials which may help on the camtraptions webite here: www.camtraptions.com/camera-traps/ and also an excellent E book which is free to download.
I hope this helps.
regards
John.
@@JohnFormstone hi John am thinking maybe they have sent me wrong one as I have done all that and had my recover on channel one and then worked dow the channels but none them would work as I tryed my nikon d500 and d7500 and none of the cameras will work I set the receiver to 1 then the even tryed the ender on one then tryed one on one and one on channel two but still won't work I got it flashing when near it just won't send to camera
Maybe it would be worth contacting Camtraptions and explain your problem, I have found them helpful in the past, Hopefully they will get it sorted for you.
@@JohnFormstone hi John spoke them the day you do need a cable to go from camera to receiver for the pir to to open the shutter
I'm glad you got sorted Alan. 👍
Hi John,
One thing we camera-trappers should never do: Use screws in healthy trees. Any damage to trees should be avoided. Unless one wants to get into a conflict with the forester or owner of the forest,
That's worth considering if your setting up in commercial woodland, which is where the pole mounts may come in handy.
There's nothing problem for the tree, I'm a forester and I am sure for it! I don't think one or few screws will affect its growth at all! It's the same when we pricked ourselves with a needle!
@@fotolovvp Thanks Valentin for your expert insight. I've been told by our forester not to do this to trees, of course, I honor his request. I just mentioned it, because I found (in my area) that it is essential to avoid conflicts with other forest users.
@@fotolovvp well thats not true, first of all you need to know what type of tree it is, for an example birch
are bleeders, screwing or cutting it those during spring for an example will affect the tree. use dead wood or some pole insted. as trappingalong said Any damage to trees should be avoided, 100% agrees. Nice video and setup do john
Cheers!
Thanks Elizabeth. Happy new year and best wishes to you. 😊