mediavets wrote:

I am wonedring whther one could adapt industrial window cleaning poles for use as pano poles.

This sort of thing:

http://windowcleaningsupplies.net/cata_show.asp?id=25

The only issue seems (to me) to be how to attach a camera head to the top of the pole.

But this article shows it can be done to make a low cost mic boom:

http://www.videobusinessadvisor.com/bui … _boom.html

Anyone tried it for pano pole?

from Manfrotto you can get a 2-piece alloy pole of app. 2,75m - designed for backdrop-paper-rolls.
Light (1,3Kg) and very sturdy - is stacked by expandable cores of massive alloy at the junctions.

http://www.bogenimaging.de/Jahia/site/b … randId=MAN

The same product is available fitted with a holder for camera-srews on one end.

I used a telescope lighting-monopole of app. 3,50 length holding it 45deg in 3m above the reiling having put a camera on it´s top using the lamphead-screw for pano down from the Messeturm in Frankfurt: http://www.klausesser.de/mtower.mov

best, Klaus

Last edited by klausesser (2008-02-25 22:34:50)

Hi Andrew!

The Manfrotto-site is one of the worst-made sites i know . .
In fact the link is exactly what i mean - but they only show the junctions and not the full length of the pole.

Here are some handyshots - i´ll make some more informative ones . .

best, Klaus

p.s.: the telescope boom is a Balcar monopole and about 3,50m long. I used that configuration for the pano - but in a diagonal position.
The black pole is the one i described earlier - all parts are from Manfrotto. And as a coicidence a 20D with a Nikon 10,5mm happens to match the NPP perfect when mounted at the "knee".
The black boom is about 2,70, long and comes in two halfs. It´s exandable too three sections by stacking one more - but then i would put a tube over the junctions to stabilize them.
As a two-piece pole it´s very rigid and bears the camera without problems - vibrations are very low!

Last edited by klausesser (2008-02-26 17:18:17)

mediavets wrote:

Thanks for images Klaus.

Here is another pole system - not exactly inexpensive but appears to be quite well thought out:

Focalpoint (http://www.focalpoint2000.co.uk/)

Hi Andrew!

Yes - not bad. But a bit expensive for toying around

best, Klaus