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Mounting to poles for heavy duty mounting

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Mounting to poles for heavy duty mounting

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- You know Rich, sometimes you're going to want a little bit more of a robust option when it comes to mounting, and to me, that means metal mounts instead of plastic mounts. - Yeah, a lot of times with vibration plastic is going to have a problem. I remember we were doing a bunch of shooting for a Lynda title where we were talking about mounting and we put a bunch of GoPros onto a motorcycle. - Yup. - Couple of jumps, this guy was doing motorcycle jumps, it was awesome, you can check out that course, but I've got to tell you, we shattered the plastic mounts, they're just not designed, - Couple jumps, yeah. - Yeah, so you need metal sometimes, and you've got metal there. - Yeah, so this is by Fotodiox, and what I'm noticing most about this mount point up here, it's just a typical GoPro mount here, but it's solid metal. A lot of the GoPro mounts that you're going to find out there are plastic and as you said, that plastic is prone to splitting and to be honest with you just from regular use; snapping the camera in and out and in and out, you tend to break these. That's why it's a good idea to have a lot of those around, but with the metal mount point, this is going to last pretty much forever until you lose it. The other nice thing about this is, on this particular one, this is a GoTough Clamp, you'll notice that the size of that screw is a lot bigger, a lot more robust, and this is going to fit around a larger pipe or cylindrical object. - Yeah, let's mount it! - Cool. - What I like about this one is that it's just rock solid, you still have rubber on the inside, to improve that grip. But yeah, very solid. - And you don't have to take the whole thing off, you just have the screw just enough to where the washer fits underneath, got a couple more turns here, just underneath like that. There we go, level that up. Then I'll tighten it. And make sure that you do keep that washer there because that's going to prevent any damage happening from the mount itself. That's not going anywhere. - Now, Rob's mounting that camera and the GoPro clip itself is plastic, but Fotodiox does make metal replacement parts for that. You know what I also love here Rob, you got a little mini ball head there so you can level that out. - Absolutely, just a little twist of the knob here, you can put it wherever I need to put it. - Yeah, and that's really pretty cool. And like, a lot of those mini ball heads, it has a knotch so if you need to we can actually hang that straight down and shoot, so that does give you 90 degrees of motion, or you could take it the opposite way to shoot up so this really gives you pretty full range of coverage, right? - Yeah, I like it a lot. I mean, again, this is something that I would, even a bigger camera I wouldn't hesitate to put in on this because it's so rock solid. - Speaking of bigger cameras here, this is a clamp from Tether Tools, there's lots of folks that do this, they're actually combining their articulating arm here with another more standard type of clamp. What I like though is that this can come apart. So I'm going to split this for a second, - Okay. - And hand you this top camera - Okay. - There we go, and what this is using is a solid type clamp with a pin. Now the pin's designed that if you need to, you can actually remove that pretty simply. So I unscrewed that, but this does come in and out which is nice. And this is just a jaws type clamp, so we'll spin that around. Very heavy duty handle. and as I do that you see that it opens up. - Mhmmm And this is specifically designed for pipe. So lets just get that big enough There we go. The thing you have to be careful of is don't open it up so far that the screw mechanism comes apart because then you spin it off. - Done that once or twice. - Yeah. Alright, now that is designed to hold a camera or a light that's very, very large. Drop that pin in, that's in, tighten, and we can set this on. And this actually has a platform, so once that's on there, and tightened, that's pretty cool. You notice that we actually have an articulating arm here, so this gives me the ability to rotate this around. There we go. Tighten that off. And a very solid platform. Now we can continue to tighten up all the individual pieces, but that's gonna give you nice camera placement, and with the articulating arm and the flat platform which is going to transfer the weight with that 90 degree angle there, it's pushing downward as opposed to something where it's hanging off the side and it could start to sag or bend. So with a heavier camera, get something that has that platform underneath. It's going to do a better job of providing support.

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