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You can’t count on venues to have a proper place to put your projector. Build one of these and you can go anywhere.
Preview of an ambient abstract piece about losing yourself in the holiday season.
This projector mount will hold your valuable beamer securely while allowing you to point it most anywhere you would need. The components can be found at Lighting/Grip or Photography resellers. The parts as described here run about $130 – not cheap, but well worth it to protect and properly utilize your expensive video projection box.
Thanks to VJ Exavior for the inspiration and original design!
(aside: if someone comes up with a way to make this out of cheaper parts, do let me know!)
Here’s how the construction works:
I usually get my clamp all set up first, then bring the projector up to it and make fine adjustments. For extra security, run a cable through the Grip Head and around a beam or well-fastened pipe. This way, your projector won’t fall and kill someone if it does somehow slip loose.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Genius. Thank you VJ KungFu. I’m lovin this podcast. Killer site too.
Any Recommendations on where to snag one of those clamps, or suggestions for alternate parts?
I built a celling mount for an old LV Canon projector out of a belt and some parts i stole off my dad’s boat. Your’s is way better :D
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I bought most of the parts at the Mole Richardson Studio Depot in Hollywood, and the others at Samy’s Camera also in Hollywood. If you’re not around Los Angeles, check your local high-end camera shops – wherever the professional photographers would go. You can also find most of the parts from B&H and bhphotovideo.com.
February 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
One addition I made to the above design is to have a metal safety cable looped through the grip head. With the use of a carabiner, you can then attach the safety cable to the same object you are clamped to (or another near by object) as an added level of safety. Not only for your projector, but for people who may be walking around below your projector.
And nice tutorial Momo!
/Exavior
May 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Great tutorial! This beats putting a flange straight onto the board by a long shot. Thanks for posting this!
June 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Maybe I’m missing something, but the Avenger F825 looks to be male to male and wouldn’t connect to the wall plate. The part pictured in the tutorial looks to be an Avenger F830TH Heavy Duty Baby to Junior Swivel Pin. Let me know if I’m mistaken…..
June 28th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Whoops! You’re absolutely right – I’ll change the text. Thanks for catching that!
August 31st, 2007 at 6:30 am
Just got done using a pair of these mounts for a month long tour, and they were worth their weight in gold. Thank you so much for figuring this out!!!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 4:59 am
[...] We’ve seen a similar projector mount before at VJKungFu, but Seej’s version seems to be even easier. A couple of these would have saved countless setup hours for me over the last year. [...]
May 28th, 2008 at 9:02 am
[...] If you want more information, and to get a full list of product parts then check out their site at vjkungfu.tv [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 4:01 am
[...] If you find yourself transporting your video projector to new locations often, a sturdy and versatile mount is a must – This projector mount will hold your valuable beamer securely while allowing you to point it most anywhere you would need. The components can be found at Lighting/Grip or Photography resellers. The parts as described here run about $130 – not cheap, but well worth it to protect and properly utilize your expensive video projection box. – not cheap, but really not that bad when you consider pre-built alternatives of comparable quality. – Build a projector mount that will go anywhere [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 4:04 am
[...] If you find yourself transporting your video projector to new locations often, a sturdy and versatile mount is a must – This projector mount will hold your valuable beamer securely while allowing you to point it most anywhere you would need. The components can be found at Lighting/Grip or Photography resellers. The parts as described here run about $130 – not cheap, but well worth it to protect and properly utilize your expensive video projection box. – not cheap, but really not that bad when you consider pre-built alternatives of comparable quality. – Build a projector mount that will go anywhere [...]
November 14th, 2008 at 11:17 am
[...] If you find yourself transporting your video projector to new locations often, a sturdy and versatile mount is a must – This projector mount will hold your valuable beamer securely while allowing you to point it most anywhere you would need. The components can be found at Lighting/Grip or Photography resellers. The parts as described here run about $130 – not cheap, but well worth it to protect and properly utilize your expensive video projection box. – not cheap, but really not that bad when you consider pre-built alternatives of comparable quality. – Build a projector mount that will go anywhere [...]
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
[...] VJKungfu.tv has a video on how to make a go-anywhere tough as nails projector mount. I saw this months ago and have been trying to decide whether it was worth doing or not. It’s very expensive to source the parts here in Australia, but I got 3 out of 4 here in Oz and managed to find the last part at a decent price from Adorama.com. [...]
July 19th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
There’s no product called the “Avenger F830 Baby to Junior Swivel Pin”
The F830 is baby size (on both the socket and the pin)
The F830TH is baby (socket) to junior (pin).
VJs building this exact mount will want to purchase the “Avenger F830″ (not the F830RH or F830TH). The B&H link to F830 in the article is correct, but the description should not include “junior”.
Happy mounting! Thanks Momo & Exavior!
August 21st, 2009 at 6:10 am
Thanks for the info! I did a somewhat different version.
Instead of using a swivel pin, I just bought a second grip head
and an 18″ piece of aluminum pipe. So one grip head is on the clamp,
one on the projector plate, and the pipe is in between.
I works quite well, and lets the projector be set off to the side of
a vertical support.
Les
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:37 am
Does anyone know where to buy one of these?
January 12th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Hey, could you help us with a picture. i'd like to offset mine from a vertical support too. thanks
January 14th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Sorry, I can't post a picture with this forum system. However, I'll try to describe it more carefully.
Say you've got your Cardellini clamp attached to a vertical pole
and your baby plate attached to the projector (just like in VJKungFu's video).
Then attach a grip head to the clamp (also like VJ KungFu)
and attach another grip head to the baby plate.
So now you just need a piece of 3/8" pipe to go between the grip heads.
In other words, you are replacing the swivel pin with a second grip head and the pipe.
One problem with this system is that you have limited angular adjustment.
I set the grip heads so the the pipe is sideways, That way you can adjust
the roll of the projector to make the image horizontal, but then you need
to use a projector with lens shift to adjust height (pitch).
Pan (yaw) is easily adjustable by rotating the baby plate stud in the grip head.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL109/NEWHTF/...
Adding the swivel pin makes my solution work with projectors that
don't have lens shift. In that case, you would have:
Clamp – to hold onto the support
Grip Head – connecting clamp to pipe
Pipe – for offset
Grip Head – to hold pipe to swivel pin
Swivel Pin – to adjust pitch, roll, and yaw of the projector
Baby plate – to attach swivel pin to projector
I hope that helps!
By the way, I use a longer-than-usual safety cable, run between the projector
and the plate to some anchor point.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
You can get everything at B&H or any local grip store.
Clamp:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/161531-REG/...
Swivel:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3616-REG/Av...
Grip head:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3581-REG/Av...
January 14th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Actually the pipe is 5/8".
I bought aluminium tubing at a hardware store,
then cut it to be about 18" long.