Let me preface this by saying that I do some videography for work, and I own several nice dslr cameras that I use. I'm not a professional, more of a "prosumer" when it comes to filming. At work, I always shoot from a tripod. This question may be geared more towards those users who have an active Youtube channel or who have done a lot of social media filming... what's your go-to setup for filming in-progress lathe work? This has been my thought process...
Setting up a tripod is going to limit the angles that I can film from. I see a lot of pro or semi-pro guys on Youtube who film shots where they're looking directly down on the top of the lathe and turned piece, or from similarly placed angles where you're viewing really great angles of the literal work in progress where the person's arm or body isn't blocking the shot.
I think that a lot of these guys are using GoPro's for the close-up angles and some type of articulating arm mount to get to angles that a regular tripod couldn't feasibly get to. I don't own any "action cameras", so I'm curious if any of you are using dslr or similar professional camcorders for filming and how you're mounting your equipment to get nice angles. I'm trying to not spend an arm and a leg on new gear if I can help it...
Setting up a tripod is going to limit the angles that I can film from. I see a lot of pro or semi-pro guys on Youtube who film shots where they're looking directly down on the top of the lathe and turned piece, or from similarly placed angles where you're viewing really great angles of the literal work in progress where the person's arm or body isn't blocking the shot.
I think that a lot of these guys are using GoPro's for the close-up angles and some type of articulating arm mount to get to angles that a regular tripod couldn't feasibly get to. I don't own any "action cameras", so I'm curious if any of you are using dslr or similar professional camcorders for filming and how you're mounting your equipment to get nice angles. I'm trying to not spend an arm and a leg on new gear if I can help it...