Footmount

[Beast 0]

Hi

Does anyone have suggestions, and perhaps pictures of how to make a footmount for my video

Thanks

[quade 4]

http://boneheadcomposites.com/bodymount.htm

As with -all- camera flying -- be careful.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Faber 0]

that is only for rental.. i guess you easily can build one your self...

Stay safe
Stefan Faber

[jmfreefly 0]

I have made both a belly mount and a footmount (actually 2, but one was a bust of a design).

Mine were basically like the BH mounts, but much cheaper and a bit heavier. The two major components of the mounts were fiberglass and a R.A.M. Mount http://www.ram-mount.com/.


My first mount was a bust because 1) I made it around an old stuffed shoe, but the shoe was a bit smaller than the one I jump with (doh!) and 2) there was poor support on the bottom of the foot (to counteract the 'lever action' of the video mount on deployment.

The second design was made around an oversized shoe that other people could use it too. The extra space is taken up with styrofoam.

3/4inch webbing sewn on the mount, with some friction adapters are used adjust the mount on the foot. The mount uses two 2-ring releases to cut the mount away in emergencies. One around the ankle, and one across the arch.

The gotchas of the project are 1) if you overbuild the mount, the footmount is pretty heavy (mine is). 2) if the mount is big, or uses a long arm (mine does), the mount is pretty hard to control. 3) You need to make sure to have a lot of extra slack in the cutaway cable. I almost lost my mount and camera when I extended my leg to full extension under canopy

I'll try to dig up pictures of the mount, or take a few new ones.

j

[jmfreefly 0]

Ok, here is a series of pictures of my foot mount. As you can see, it is pretty big (especially with no shoes on..
Hopefully this shows all angles and elements of the mount. It is adjustable in every dimension (while it appears some of the dimensions are fixed on the shue-view -- this is just my thought from looking at their pictures).

The real 'trickiness' in the mount is up front, and the way that I was able to make the adjustment friction adapter work. The problem with sewing on to this mount is that it is extremely hard to get tight stitching (close to the mount). I even was using a real free arm machine at it was tough. The space needed for the 2 ring and the friction adapter takes up a lot of real estate. Mounting the friction adapter up front makes it much cleaner. The webbing runs back inside the mount to the ankle wrap.

I also threw in the pics of my belly mount and a simple d-box for the foot/belly mount system. The belly takes the RAM arm from the foot mount.

j

[ffejdraga 0]

whoa.
that is hard core.
when i can i will show you my much simpler (untested as of yet) version.

yahoo.
jeff D-16906

[jmfreefly 0]

No more hardcore than the BH model in design really, but I am interested in seeing what you have done.

The goal of this version was to make it pretty universal, which meant a bit of over engineering. If it was just for me, I could probably get away with some bulk and some of the adjustment points.

j

[slayer21016 2]

I use Camera Heads (Bullet Cams) mounted on a stiff shoe for my shoe shots i don't see a reason to mount a PC or other type of camera on my shoe, except maybe a Sony IP model due to there small size, but the Bullet Cams offer the most flexibility with good resolution and safety for me, and there's little chance of breaking the Bullet Cam on a bad landing+you can get waterproof ones for that cool looking pond swooping shot.

Scott

[jmfreefly 0]

No doubt a bullet cam is an easier option. However, the bullet cams that were widely available previously had such poor picture quality, it wasn't worth it to me.

I'll have to say, pulling with a footmount is a bitch.
j