CAMERA JIB CRANE: A Custom Camera Rig!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2022
- Thank YOU for watching! I’m really thrilled that other people like this type of build as much as I do and I’m happy to be able to share these projects on TH-cam. I’ve just passed 1,500 subscribers and I’m so grateful for all of the encouragement I’ve received so far. So in celebration of that, It seems like a good time to upgrade my camera setup!
For this project, I’ve designed and fabricated a rolling camera jib crane for my personal welding shop. Up to this point, I’ve been making content with a Logitech C920 webcam and my laptop. Since the laptop was on it’s own cart, and the webcam was on a tripod, they took up a large foot print in my garage work space. Since I started making videos, I had been dreaming of a better, more condensed system. I came up with this design after 2 years of awkwardly dodging my camera equipment while trying to finish projects in a tight space.
After a long period of debating, I chose to go with a Panasonic Lumix G95 for my new camera. I’ve had 3 Lumix cameras before and have been consistently happy with them. The reasons I chose the G95 is really its bang-for-buck ratio. It’s a lot of camera for an affordable price. It has an HDMI output I can hook to a camera monitor and it can take external power to supplement it’s battery use: meaning it can be plugged in rather than relying purely on battery. Anything nicer and I'd be afraid to bring it into my workshop.
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Very nice job. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Weld on. Fab on. Keep Making. God bless.
Thank you Jared!
@@PunkerBuilds your very welcome
That is a lot of work for a simple jib. Excellent job explaining it and showing how to make it. Only one suggestion. You should have used pillow block bearings on the top of the jib tube rather than just holes with bolts. It would be smoother and quiet. I have to assume you might get some squeaking over time with the bolts as well as wear and sloppiness. If you make collars for the pillow blocks, you could also make it adjustable in length. It might be overkill for me, but very professionally done. Impressive.
Thanks for watching! I haven't had any squeeking yet but did buy a whole bunch of shouldered, self lubricating bronze bushings. When i get around to it i intend to upen up the holes and pressfit the bushings in. My bigger issues is the slop in the vertical tube sleeve. I think I'll need to get a nylon or UHMW bushing turned for that.
Brilliant
Thanks!
This is sick! The way you explain the process makes it seem a lot simpler than it looks. Digging the jams too. Can't wait 'til the next video :D
Ahh! why thank ya Miles! Glad you liked it!
Awesome build! To protect your camera you could also look at SCUBA enclosures as another option. Air tight, and it will protect it long term from the stuff that floats in the air like smoke, etc. Just a thought from a diver. PS, glad I stumbled onto your channel 😅
That's an excellent idea! I will definitely look into that. The dust and grit are currently inescapable, and my camera can actually be run remotely! Thanks for the recommendation and for watching!
Dylan, venho te acompanhando desde os primeiros vídeos, e só posso te elogiar cada dia mais pelo incrível trabalho que realiza!! São verdadeiras obras de arte, com capricho nos detalhes que sempre impressiona!! Parabéns, continue fazendo e nos ensinando a melhorar!!
Thank you Dan! I really appreciate the kind words and encouragement! Hopefully I can figure out how to get the videos out faster in the future lol.
Rhino impresses... Looks even better than Solidworks for quick prototyping . Can you recommend (video?) tutorials for Rhino beginners?
Rhino and Solidworks are both amazing in their own ways but i would absolutely agree that Rhino is superior in its more free flow ability to quickly prototype! I took a course in college to learn it so i cant recommend any specifics but there are lots of resources on youtube to learn all the functions.
I thought you would hang industrial tv camera on your jib.
I'll have to work up to being able to afford that lol.
Your rig is exactly what I am looking to build for filming my students as they build our projects. Now that it's been a few months is there anything you would change or adjust now?
Thanks for watching! Yeah, I would deffinitely beef up the spring loaded levers that lift/level the feet. They bent fairly quickly. To level the rig, I've been pushing on the main post to tilt the weight off, then stepping on the leveler foot to set the height. It works well enough and stays at height fine, the foot pedals to lift just dont work since the inside tabs got bent. I was limited in how wide of flatbar I could use since I made the base frame out of 1" x 2" hss, if i had bumped that tube size up to 2" x 2", I could have gotten wider/stronger tabs inside.
@PunkerBuilds , Thank you for review.