Well, I have an idea, and if it works would give me a great shot. Anyone ever shot from a tree. Yes, I mean up in it. I had a thought about having a mounted video head attached to a branch, but I dont' have a spare 501 head.

So I'm wondering, what would be the best way to shoot from a tree.

I want the height, call it a natural crane.

For $800 or so you can get a clamp on camera support. They use them in all the hunting shows. If interested I can dig up the link

Jim

I would say get a SLR-Zoom-lens Gorilla Pod made by Joby. They are really cool! They have these sorta sticky legs that rap around things and you can put a wide variety of heads on it. I would recommend it.

~Gabriel

Yeah i've shot from a tree, although i can't say i do it often enough to warrent spending $800.

My suggestion, look into building scaffolding, they use similar clamps to join sections of scaffolding and are a hell of a lot cheaper than $800.

This link shows a typical scaffolding clamp which you could modify.

http://etrade.daegu.go.kr/co/d/dongjinpre/img/oimg_GC00411261_CA00411272.jpg

And this is a more video orientated example of whats out there around $100

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.b-hague.co.uk/CLAMPS/aMini-clamp%2520b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.b-hague.co.uk/Mounting%2520Brackets.htm&h=182&w=154&sz=9&hl=en&start=159&tbnid=pEnRjVwWP1EVgM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscaffolding%2Bclamp%26start%3D144%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

This was just a 2 second google search.

Andy.

put a Bogen Super Clamp on a 3-way head. about $90, Clamp is $30 + whatever you want to spend on the head. it's a bomber combo.