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Budget camera arm

Nutterbuster

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Looking to film some duck hunts this year. I have a cheap aluminum tripod I can use in the marsh but mostly hunt timber and figured a strap on camera arm may be handy since its smaller and lighter and I usually have a timber strap on the tree anyway so I can hang my gun and bag.

Any recommendations? I'll be using a Sony Handycam fdr-ax33 if that matters.
 
I can’t point one out to you but I can hopefully save you some time. Don’t buy the muddy basic camera arm. It’s pretty bad, I read the reviews and thought ehh how bad can it be. It was pretty bad. Within 3 hours of it arriving it was back at the store. After two hours of trying to mod it work. Couldn’t get it to be stable at all. Was bummed because I just thought I’d use my iPhone to maybe film a shot or two. Had the nicer muddy arms and they are pretty nice but the basic wasn’t that great.
 
Looking to film some duck hunts this year. I have a cheap aluminum tripod I can use in the marsh but mostly hunt timber and figured a strap on camera arm may be handy since its smaller and lighter and I usually have a timber strap on the tree anyway so I can hang my gun and bag.

Any recommendations? I'll be using a Sony Handycam fdr-ax33 if that matters.
Check with @DIYBOWHUNTING
He should have something that should work for you.
 
Looking to film some duck hunts this year. I have a cheap aluminum tripod I can use in the marsh but mostly hunt timber and figured a strap on camera arm may be handy since its smaller and lighter and I usually have a timber strap on the tree anyway so I can hang my gun and bag.

Any recommendations? I'll be using a Sony Handycam fdr-ax33 if that matters.

The past couple years I've filmed my son's (and @Red Beard last weekend) with this arm. If you can still find it it does the job. Cheapest arm I found with a fluid head, although the fluid head gets pretty stiff in 20deg temps.

 
The past couple years I've filmed my son's (and @Red Beard last weekend) with this arm. If you can still find it it does the job. Cheapest arm I found with a fluid head, although the fluid head gets pretty stiff in 20deg temps.

Did the job! We were able to see a REALLY poorly placed shot without any vibration in the camera :D
 
The past couple years I've filmed my son's (and @Red Beard last weekend) with this arm. If you can still find it it does the job. Cheapest arm I found with a fluid head, although the fluid head gets pretty stiff in 20deg temps.

Looks like they make it under the muddy name now. Thanks!
 
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