I have recently seen on e-bay, cheap jib cranes, has anyone experience in
using budget priced jib cranes, are they worth the money ?
Cheap Jib Cranes
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Willy Van der Linden
Re: Cheap Jib Cranes
"Mark Walsh" <forums@theiac.org.uk> wrote:
but I guess it's a machine to film something or someone while the camera
is getting higher or lower automatically. Is that the right explanation
? Perhaps it's not grammatically right. One of my friends has made one.
He's a very good technician. It works miraculously well, but he doesn't use
it very often, neither do the members of my club. Some weeks ago I worked
with a jib crane and I did not have to pay anything at all. I'm making a
film about life in a moated concentration camp of World War II. It's not
so far from my house. All the people who sympathized with the English were
kept in prison there. They had to wear a red linnen badge just like the Jews
who were recognized by their Star of David. I asked the Mayor of our town
if I could use the electric ladder of the local Fire Brigade and he agreed.
I suffer from vertigo, but I was so enthusiastic that I didn't feel anything
at all. The "crane" got higher and higher without any bumps. It reached a
height of 30 metres and I could see the whole concentration camp with its
moat. A helicopter flight would have cost £330, but as I am an amateur film
maker who makes films for fun ... It would have been very stupid. Filming
is my passion, but there are limits. No, Mark, I don't have any experience
with budget priced jib cranes, but I've just taken the opportunity to tell
this experience. I always try to be inventive in order not to spend any money
on my films. I must admit that I know the mayor of my town very well. He
is one of my former pupils at school. But I think this idea could help other
film makers who would like to take spectacular shots from some height.
What's a jib crane ? I didn't find the word in my Dutch-English dictionary,I have recently seen on e-bay, cheap jib cranes, has anyone experience in
using budget priced jib cranes, are they worth the money ?
but I guess it's a machine to film something or someone while the camera
is getting higher or lower automatically. Is that the right explanation
? Perhaps it's not grammatically right. One of my friends has made one.
He's a very good technician. It works miraculously well, but he doesn't use
it very often, neither do the members of my club. Some weeks ago I worked
with a jib crane and I did not have to pay anything at all. I'm making a
film about life in a moated concentration camp of World War II. It's not
so far from my house. All the people who sympathized with the English were
kept in prison there. They had to wear a red linnen badge just like the Jews
who were recognized by their Star of David. I asked the Mayor of our town
if I could use the electric ladder of the local Fire Brigade and he agreed.
I suffer from vertigo, but I was so enthusiastic that I didn't feel anything
at all. The "crane" got higher and higher without any bumps. It reached a
height of 30 metres and I could see the whole concentration camp with its
moat. A helicopter flight would have cost £330, but as I am an amateur film
maker who makes films for fun ... It would have been very stupid. Filming
is my passion, but there are limits. No, Mark, I don't have any experience
with budget priced jib cranes, but I've just taken the opportunity to tell
this experience. I always try to be inventive in order not to spend any money
on my films. I must admit that I know the mayor of my town very well. He
is one of my former pupils at school. But I think this idea could help other
film makers who would like to take spectacular shots from some height.