[pure-silver] Re: Biking and photography
- From: Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:33:30 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Thu, 4/3/08, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Biking and photography
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:41 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Blackwell"
> <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:52 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Biking and photography
>
>
> > Well I thought Id pass on an update on my bid to
> safely
> > carry camera gear on my bike.
> >
> > After exhausting many other options, there really was
> only
> > one practical one. Build it yourself. I would have
> liked
> > to have found someone that would have welded me a box
> out
> > of aluminum, but the cost was just too high to be
> > feasible. Nothing I could find would work, though I
> did
> > find a few things which might work for other uses.
> > Stopped in an army surplus store and one of the best
> was
> > an empty 50 cal ammo can that is waterproof, solid
> outside
> > and a good size. Two big problems were it was just a
> bit
> > too narrow for the camera bodies to ride like I
> wanted.
> > They come in two sizes and might work very well for
> things
> > like film in a handle bar basket, but not for the
> cameras.
> Snipping...
>
> I wonder if fiberglas might be an option, perhaps in
> combination with wood. Its light and strong and a lamanated
>
> structure would provide some space between the outside
> surface and the equipment.
> I use ammunition boxes for some things but have always
>
> found them to be very heavy, and, as you discovered, never
> quite the right size for anything.
> Photography from bicycles dates back to the
> introduction of the bicycle in the late 19th century. I
> wonder if there were some good solutions discovered then
> that are lost in history.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ====================================
Well I don't know if there was a solution that has been lost, but it would be
interesting to see what they used. Cameras back then were probably more
fragile and probably more of a do it yourself thing anyway.
I thought about fiberglass, but the impact resistance had me a bit concerned.
It would have also been a complete learning curve, which for now I have other
things I needed to spend my time on more than this project. I probably could
have reduced a lot of the weight of the wood and still kept the strength.
What really has me wanting to learn is something carbon fiber. Light weight,
plenty strong and durable, but not cheap and I have no idea what I am doing
with that either. For now wood and careful weight management seems to be the
key. This one will be very easy to overload if not careful.
Hopefully someone knows. IF there were a failure some day, I would hope it
would be the seat post that would fail, not the tube in which the seat post is
inserted.
What is odd is I was beginning to wonder whether or not I was crazy trying to
go to so much trouble for a photo bike. Listening to a podcast yesterday by
Brooks Jensen, editor of Lens Work publishing, talked about him buying a bike
and using it for photography. Maybe the idea isn't so crazy after all.
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