1 hour ago, Davide DB said:

Fro your question basically just browse and read previous messages on this thread. Everything is described in great detail already...

There is a lot about the tripod made with clamps and arms, but i don't see much about flexible tripod

The only example is from Jochen, but the tripod is cut out 

And also, the tripod I was looking is not DIY, that's why I made another post in another section 😁

 

 

23 minutes ago, Elvandar said:

There is a lot about the tripod made with clamps and arms, but i don't see much about flexible tripod

The only example is from Jochen, but the tripod is cut out 

And also, the tripod I was looking is not DIY, that's why I made another post in another section 😁

 

 

As mentioned, if you go with flex arms (locline)  you can connect them to your tray with ball mounts and clamps, but also with an M6 thread mount, a 1/4" thread mount or coldshoe mount for instance. This would allow you to connect 2 or 3 flex arms to your tray in multiple ways
Have a look at the options here https://www.flex-arm.com/en/components/34-flexible-arms-components

 

Looking at the picture of your rig, you could add triple clamps (especially open ones) to the ball end you have at the end of the tray, add something to where the handles are, add a perpendicular 5" ball arm and also work with the main central mounting point for example

 

 

Edited November 20, 2024Nov 20 by bghazzal

Yes, I understand but frankly, starting from scrattch, for an action camera I wouldn't be wasting a lot of time with DIY solutions and I would go straight to ready-made solutions like these that are cheap and also handy:

https://www.flex-arm.com/en/tripods-and-monopods/underwater-camera-tripod

Or the ones on Aliexpress.

or, last but not the least, since you already have the bracket, perhaps the solution proposed by @bghazzal is the quickest.

I use a Joby GorillaPod with a Neewer Ball Head. The ball head is very important esp. for macro. I usual setup the tripod in roughly the right position and then use the ball head the final adjustment. 

@Jochen Cool!
Wich gorillapod do you have? it's with abs or aluminium legs?

 

its from the company JOBY and made from ABS. Used it for around 80 dives over the last three years. No issues with salt water. 

2 hours ago, Jochen said:

its from the company JOBY and made from ABS. Used it for around 80 dives over the last three years. No issues with salt water. 

 

Does it come with the Neweer head or it's your addition? Is the head still "alive"?

 

Thank you in advance

6 hours ago, Davide DB said:

 

Does it come with the Neweer head or it's your addition? Is the head still "alive"?

 

Thank you in advance

yes, the Neweer ball head was an extra. There are many ball heads available, I chose the one in the picture because I wanted one with a low profile as I was worried that the camera would sit too high for macro. Turned out not to be a problem. 

 

yes it is still alive 🙂 as good as new. Must say I always had it in a rinse tank after each dive. 

 

16 hours ago, bghazzal said:

As mentioned, if you go with flex arms (locline)  you can connect them to your tray with ball mounts and clamps, but also with an M6 thread mount, a 1/4" thread mount or coldshoe mount for instance. This would allow you to connect 2 or 3 flex arms to your tray in multiple ways
Have a look at the options here https://www.flex-arm.com/en/components/34-flexible-arms-components

 

Looking at the picture of your rig, you could add triple clamps (especially open ones) to the ball end you have at the end of the tray, add something to where the handles are, add a perpendicular 5" ball arm and also work with the main central mounting point for example

 

 

Here are ideas using some locline arms and/joby style legs.

 

This is something I tested with a borrowed camera, before finally going for the quadripod solution, as it was much more convenient.

 

As you can see, I combined my Joby Gorillapod on a central mount, combined with locline flexarms:

Here's a similar example I found online:

 

 

but for a lightweight actioncam setup this is probably overkill.

cheers

b

Edited November 21, 2024Nov 21 by bghazzal

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My native language is not English, so please understand if there are rude English words.

I use ulcs tray + inon 45 degree baseball.

 

It was more stable when the inon base ball was mounted at an angle away from the housing.

I used a 6-inch stick arm and used the same maker to make it a little easier to control underwater. I found that using the same maker's ball made the clamp operation smoother.

When not in use, I store it so that it does not interfere with the button or strobe placement control.

 

Also, I leave the tray and base ball on even when I'm not using the tripod. Especially when I'm beach diving, it makes it much easier to clean the O-ring when I leave the camera on the sand.

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I'm only shooting stills, and trying to get better at supermacro, so I wanted to reduce the degrees of freedom of the housing, but still keep flexibility to frame tiny critters. Here is my very simple monopod setup (so far untested). I decided to try this as an alternative to the "perch your housing on a muck stick" technique that a few people have shown me can be quite effective. The housing is an AOI UH-OM1-II, so smaller than some in this thread.

As mentioned at the start of the thread, there is an extra 1/4" threaded hole in my ULCS tray, so I just put an Ali-express ball head there, and clamped on an arm section of appropriate length. I removed the o-ring from one end to try to always keep one end in the sand. As you can see it does not add much to the profile.

Open it can go fairly high. Hypothetically this pose keeps the center of gravity of the rig (which is roughly 500g negative) above the pivot point. We shall see.