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Carrying a camera while riding
Does anyone have any insight into the way they carry a camera while riding?
I'm an avid amateur photographer and have a medium sized SLR that I typically carry. Last year I wore a back pack with the body and lens separated and when I needed to take a picture, I zoomed down the hill, got on my knees and assembled my camera to take some pictures of my friends in action. It worked pretty well and I managed to stay on my feet the whole day and the days I didn't, I left my camera at home. The only padding when carrying my camera was a pull over fleece that I surrounded the body and lens. This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. Of course, this would pose a problem when getting on and possibly off a lift. My second though is for it to ride between a binding and the tip or tail. My biggest issue with this is that one side won't be attached properly. One side can be attached via exposed binding inserts while the other side would have to clamp to the tip or the tail to really secure it. Anyone have any insights or seen any contraptions that might do what I'm looking to do? Thanks in advance for any help. -Bruce |
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"Bruce Chang" wrote:
Anyone have any insights or seen any contraptions that might do what I'm looking to do? This sounds like a really neat project. If you do end up coming up with something, I'd love to see it! Iain |
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Bruce Chang wrote:
This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. Of course, this would pose a problem when getting on and possibly off a lift. Interesting idea but... I can imagine the weight of the camera is significant in relation to your board. Therefore you'll effectively be increasing your board's weight significantly which will reduce your ability to control it - it will make it harder to weight/unweight the board and to keep an edge engaged. It's like increasing the unsprung mass of a car - it degrades the ability of the wheels to follow the bumps in the road. I think its better (and safer for the camera) to keep it in a padded bag in your pack or strapped to your upper body. Iain |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:37:35 GMT, "Bruce Chang"
wrote: Does anyone have any insight into the way they carry a camera while riding? I'm an avid amateur photographer and have a medium sized SLR that I typically carry. Last year I wore a back pack with the body and lens separated and when I needed to take a picture, I zoomed down the hill, got on my knees and assembled my camera to take some pictures of my friends in action. It worked pretty well and I managed to stay on my feet the whole day and the days I didn't, I left my camera at home. The only padding when carrying my camera was a pull over fleece that I surrounded the body and lens. This is what I've done and it works fine for me. I usually have a smallish backpack on which is stuffed with hotel towels and which has my camera in the middle of it. Getting my gloves off and on again is the main PITA. andyt |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:37:35 GMT, "Bruce Chang"
allegedly wrote: This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. I'd worry about the vibration... you'd need a lot of damping in place to stop the camera being shaken to death. On your back it avoids this because you have your whole body acting as a shock absorber. - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow - Securing your e-mail The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/ |
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"id" no@idea wrote in message ... Bruce Chang wrote: This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. Of course, this would pose a problem when getting on and possibly off a lift. Interesting idea but... I can imagine the weight of the camera is significant in relation to your board. Therefore you'll effectively be increasing your board's weight significantly which will reduce your ability to control it - it will make it harder to weight/unweight the board and to keep an edge engaged. It's like increasing the unsprung mass of a car - it degrades the ability of the wheels to follow the bumps in the road. I think its better (and safer for the camera) to keep it in a padded bag in your pack or strapped to your upper body. Iain I see your illustration but I think it's more complex than just sprung/unsprung weight. How a car handles is a function of not just weight but also the spring rate and absorber's ability to fight motion. I would imagine it would be harder to control but not to the point one would be incapable of controlling it, particularly if the weight was centered on the board, rather than on the tip or tail. I tried looking on the web for weights of boards but that apparently isn't a very useful spec when looking for a board. Tierney Rides board says 8lbs for a 38" and 9lbs for 41". That has to be a rounded figure or that would mean at 14" the board weighs nothing neglecting the weight of the wheels. If I can assume that the difference between the two boards is 1/2 lb and the wheels weigh 1 lb, then the average weight of the tierney board is 6.33 lbs for the 38" = 83.6 cm. My board is 158cm so that would make my board weigh about 12 lbs (of course the tierney board is made of maple while my board is probably some kind of composite material). I'd just grab my board and weigh myself and then weigh myself and my board but I'm at work and don't have my board handy. My camera without the lens weighs about 1.5 lbs. Any additional comments? Did I miss anything? Any additional comments on the subject? |
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Bruce Chang wrote:
My camera without the lens weighs about 1.5 lbs. Any additional comments? Did I miss anything? Any additional comments on the subject? The vibration and shock is gonna beat the **** out of your camera. Try this as an experiment next time you buy a pop - strap it to your shoe and walk around for a few minutes. Now open - kaboom. No shock absorption. But you could have put in your backpack and been just fine. Why don't you get a really small backpack, like the MEC Blitzcrag shown in the attached link? Fill it with foam custom-cut to fit your camera and accessories, and you have something like a Pelican case, only soft. Neil |
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Andy Turner wrote:
This is what I've done and it works fine for me. I usually have a smallish backpack on which is stuffed with hotel towels LOL nice bri -- * enjoying the karma * remove LKJSDFJSD from address to email |
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Bruce Chang wrote: This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. Of course, this would pose a problem when getting on and possibly off a lift. My second though is for it to ride between a binding and the tip or tail. My biggest issue with this is that one side won't be attached properly. One side can be attached via exposed binding inserts while the other side would have to clamp to the tip or the tail to really secure it. Anyone have any insights or seen any contraptions that might do what I'm looking to do? Thanks in advance for any help. -Bruce Connecting anything on that large and that fragile to the board sounds like a bad idea for all the reasons mentioned and more... I suggest a turtle-shell style hardshell backpack with foam cutout interior. I did a quick search and found these for under $100 (www.loadup.com has the same brand for like $50 on super discount, but the website is finicky). http://www.ebags.com/boblbee/peoples...?modelid=20394 http://www.flaxart.com/f/shopping/pr...4831&code=W2SD If you still want to do it yourself, then I suggest making your own hardshell pack by sticking a plastic contain inside a regular backpack. The key thing is to pack the lens and body with proper padding... I think the more protective would be to buy a block (or several layers that stack up) of foam and cutout custom sized holes for your body and lens. Encased in hard plastic, and suspended in foam in all directions (the lid will close down over the "hole"). I think you will be in more danger of being harmed by the camera in its container than the reverse - as such I still would suggest buying a well-designed hardshell pack instead of trying to build my own - this is not something I think it is worth trying to save a few bucks on - plus it doubles as a spine protector. |
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"lonerider" wrote in message oups.com...
Bruce Chang wrote: This year I'm trying to think of a better way. I have a camera bag that is roughly the width of my board and about as wide as my stance so I'm thinking I *could* some how secure it between my bindings and have it live there as the danger of getting damaged would be less than if I carried it on my back. Of course, this would pose a problem when getting on and possibly off a lift. My second though is for it to ride between a binding and the tip or tail. My biggest issue with this is that one side won't be attached properly. One side can be attached via exposed binding inserts while the other side would have to clamp to the tip or the tail to really secure it. Anyone have any insights or seen any contraptions that might do what I'm looking to do? Thanks in advance for any help. -Bruce Connecting anything on that large and that fragile to the board sounds like a bad idea for all the reasons mentioned and more... I suggest a turtle-shell style hardshell backpack with foam cutout interior. I did a quick search and found these for under $100 (www.loadup.com has the same brand for like $50 on super discount, but the website is finicky). http://www.ebags.com/boblbee/peoples...?modelid=20394 http://www.flaxart.com/f/shopping/pr...4831&code=W2SD If you still want to do it yourself, then I suggest making your own hardshell pack by sticking a plastic contain inside a regular backpack. The key thing is to pack the lens and body with proper padding... I think the more protective would be to buy a block (or several layers that stack up) of foam and cutout custom sized holes for your body and lens. Encased in hard plastic, and suspended in foam in all directions (the lid will close down over the "hole"). I think you will be in more danger of being harmed by the camera in its container than the reverse - as such I still would suggest buying a well-designed hardshell pack instead of trying to build my own - this is not something I think it is worth trying to save a few bucks on - plus it doubles as a spine protector. And another question is whether some lift operators would not allow you on the lift with a bag strapped somewhere on the board. |
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