I used vinyl covered 3/16" wire rope cables and cut them to about 6" each piece. I cut a spacer to place between the plates for consistency between each camera mount. One side note - I couldn't cut the cable with anything I had so I had to buy a bolt cutter. Even that didn't want to cut this stuff until I realized that when I first cut the vinyl with a razor then the bolt cutter had no problem cutting the wire. In every case it cut all but about two strands and cut those with a cold chisel on my vise anvil. Any project that requires the purchase of a new tool is a good project!!
Here you can see the camera mount threaded lock, just like on a tripod –
The top plate where the camera mounts has a floating nut to hold the threaded lock and allow for secure mounting of the camera –
Set of three camera isolation mounts (upside down in the photo so they'd sit flat on the table) –
Cable close ups –
Camera on the column –
Close up of camera –
Camera with isolation mount. After our first test we realized that 8 cables were too stiff so I took one out of each quadrant.
More in a minute -
David