On April 4, I went out around low tide. I was actually a little late, but it was kind of cool and very windy, so it wasn’t a good day for getting naked and wet. However, I had a mission. I had been testing a low-tech panning trick at home, that involves nothing more than a fluid-head video tripod, some string, a weight, a pulley, and something to hang the pulley on.
The way it works is simple. The string is attached to the handle on the tripod, it goes through the pulley and has a weight on the far end. With the pulley suspended on a pole that is stuck in the mud in just the right spot, the weight pressures the tripod handle so the tripod head slowly pans (depending on the amount of weight and fluid-head adjustment).
On April 4, I did some “real world” testing, to see how the panning system would work for a mud video. The mud wasn’t really deep (I didn’t know how deep it was until I stepped into it, that’s part of the fun). Here is the edited result of my little test.
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