Homemade camera rig for SLR
After few mounths spent looking for the right pieces I could finally build my camera rig. When you don't have the right tools and you don't know where to go to cut and drill your pieces a simple handcraft work can become a pain! So last week I found the missing piece searching in some street trash, the plexiglass plate to support the camera, that allowed me to shoot some interesting footage! I'm sorry, I needed the digital SLR to take pictures! I cut and glued some pvc tubes, following the size of my SLR camera and trying anyway to get quite a small frame: everyone who makes his own camera rig should do the same, because there's no universal size. The plate is made of thick plexiglass; I locked it to the frame by 4 bolts and added some inner tube washers (you can make everything with it!) to make it more solid and smooth. I then drilled the camera screw hole right in the middle of the plate mesuring the distance from the fo...