Compact 3 directional adjustment mount.

aveslux · Post by **aveslux** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:01 am

I like to do some lens focus adjustment based stacking in forests, mainly mushrooms/lichens etc only 1x.

I currently use a tripod that inverts but I find this awkward to adjust and to move around the forest, often I just lie my camera on a sheet of plastic but then it becomes hard to micro adjust for composition, is there some of mount I can get that will allow micro adjustments in 3 directions that will allow me to get the camera low to ground. Camera can be upside down. I'm having trouble searching for such a device because I don't know the terms. I need the camera to be be as low as possible.

kaleun96 · Post by **kaleun96** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:34 pm

Someone else on this forum had shared this video that had a good homemade solution to what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hgW9O ... dex=7&t=7s

It's only lacking the X and Y adjustments but you can buy a XY macro rail for that and mount it on the board.

aveslux · Post by **aveslux** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:46 am

kaleun96 wrote:Someone else on this forum had shared this video that had a good homemade solution to what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hgW9O ... dex=7&t=7s

It's only lacking the X and Y adjustments but you can buy a XY macro rail for that and mount it on the board.

Interesting that guys photographic technique is pretty different to mine, I stack and use natural light but yeah he has the same problem getting low enough and maintaining composition/focus, that plank with a rail on top would probably be too high. I'm thinking like invert it i.e. a 4 adjustable screw thread legged table thing with the slider rail on top and camera in a cage.

Post by **MarkSturtevant** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:58 pm

The person in the video is using a home made version of a platform called a 'platypod'.
I had used my camera to photograph a wolf spider last summer. Here is the rig:

A rig for photographing the wolf spider by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

I have been thinking of including a 4-way manual rail that I have to make it easier to line up things up in this sort of situation:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072C ... UTF8&psc=1

But maybe a 4-way rail slider would also work.