What the heck, here’s another reason I’m so psyched at the moment!
I’m excited because for the last few years I’ve been developing an entirely new apparatus and technique for getting previously impossible camera angles for photographing on cliffs. When I say “impossible”, I mean impossible from a practical point of view. Over the last few weeks I’ve put the finishing touches to this “thing” and it works like a dream! You can ask all you want but at the moment I’m not going to reveal just what this thing is, I want to have a bit of fun with this first, :-) But I will say this, and I wouldn’t claim this lightly after 16 years of professional climbing photography, but this “thing” is a practical, safe and relatively inexpensive solution to some of the biggest constraints faced by climbing photographers and it is set to simply REVOLUTIONISE climbing photography in the future! I am quite confident that at the moment no other photographer is effectively able to get the angles that I can. You heard it here first. If you want to know more about this “thing”, then stayed tuned to this blog and all will be revealed… eventually!
Camera on a stick! I bet it’s camera on a stick!
— Lee · 4 December 2009, 19:33 · #
Ha! Let the guessing games commence then. This could be interesting. But my lips are SEALED!
— Simon Carter · 4 December 2009, 21:20 · #
Camera on an RC helicopter?
— Stephen · 5 December 2009, 16:07 · #
Camera on a remote controlled helicopter?
— Peter · 5 December 2009, 17:31 · #
there’s some guy in utah that has a HD cam on a remote control heli – he gets sick perspective!
— bw · 5 December 2009, 17:46 · #
Ooooh, a guessing game. Hmmm, Lee already has a camera on a stick. I’m gunna go for a helium balloon with a radio transceiver so the image can be transmitted to a computer and the camera can be fired remotely. I can’t wait to see what the good Mr. Carter has come up with.
— Phil Box · 5 December 2009, 22:04 · #
While bushwalking in the bluies last month I saw a guy training a Seagull to fly with heavy weights… I’m onto your secret.
— Punter · 6 December 2009, 11:52 · #
Well plenty of people have done RC helicopters, and ‘camera on a stick’… well I was shooting off a boom just this week, that’s nothing new! Hmmm, I am quite intrigued Mr Carter!!
— Josh Caple · 6 December 2009, 17:08 · #
Is it an extra long mechanical arm?
— Will McNeice · 7 December 2009, 00:48 · #
remember the james bond jet backpack? not eco freindly but it might work! tell us more…..
— paul coleshill · 9 December 2009, 17:54 · #
I reckon it’s a camera on a mini hydrogen blimp…
— Steve Cimarosti · 17 December 2009, 08:35 · #
Really long arms?? Hanging off your finger board with Monique and Coco on your back finally worked???
— Shorty · 19 December 2009, 21:49 · #
Ok, lets analyze this carefully.
1. Practical,
So its probably quite simple to build
and easy to use.
2. Safe
It probably involves a person in some way,
or he wouldn’t bother saying its safe.
3. Relatively inexpensive
Probably easily attainable.
It’s probably not cheap either.
What are the biggest constraints?
— Peter · 9 April 2010, 09:43 · #