I need a Cutaway for my Foot-Mount

[oli18 0]

Hi,

I have constructed my own foot-mount and am almost finished. Please see the attached photo.

I designed it so it is not too bulky, I can run with it a little when landing, and it won't slide off at any time.

What you can't see in the picture is that the front and back of the mount are held together by straps (through the loops AND on both sides of the shoe) as you would find on a school backpack. You just pull them towards the back of the foot to tighten it..

However, I need a clever, cheap, simple cutaway system for it.

I want to avoid having a 3 ring circus system that is going to cost me a lot and, if possible, not have to cut holes in my jumpsuit for cutaway pads?

Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions, ideally with picture examples.

Thanks!!

-Oli

[Zee 0]

That'll be $85.00 please

Action©Sports

[MWGemini 0]

There was a guy at my DZ jumping the Bonehead shoe mount this weekend. They have a very simple cutaway system on it, you might want to take a look at it.

From looking at your setup, it looks like just having the webbing that holds the two sections together be two pieces. Have a closing loop at the end of one, and a grommet at the end of the other, run a cable through the loop, and that's it. That is essentially what the Bonehead system does, although there are two sections that the cutaway cable passes through due to the layout of the straps. My friend (the guy who jumped it) had our rigger install a small grommet in the hip of his jumpsuit that he ran a cutaway cable through, then down his leg to the shoe mount. The cutaway handle was then mounted on his rig (I think it velcroed around the MLW).

Mike

[Brains 2]

I had the same idea as MWGemini, however, after further review, i like Zee's idea the best.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[eUrNiCc 0]

^^I'm the guy that jumped the shoe-vue. The BH cutaway system is very simple, just a grommet and through loop on each of the straps. I ran a tandem ripcord down through the hipring on my rig, through a grommet on my jumpsuit, and out the ankle closure to the shoe-vue. That way the PVC handle rests in your hipring and you don't have to reach to your foot to cutaway. Just make SURE that you have enough excess cutaway cable so that when you bend your knee and straighten your leg you don't accidentally pull out all the slack and chop it accidentally.

Your results may vary... good luck. (BTW, foot mount video rocks!)

Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age.

[Jumpmunki 0]

it would rock even more if you got a decent wide angle lens that doesn't vingette

[eUrNiCc 0]

That's a $300 Century Precision Optics .3 superfisheye. From their website "The .3X Ultra Fisheye Adapter offers an extreme fisheye effect and a high degree of barrel distortion. It exaggerates depth by pulling nearby objects closer and causing distant objects to recede into the background. On the Canon Elura, the .3X Ultra Fisheye Adapter yields a horizontal viewing angle of 130° (180°, measured diagonally)."

Unfortunately the lens is so big that it's near impossible to sidemount. It works fairly well on a topmount, but on a PC style camera that makes the whole package awful tall and high drag. The extremely wide angle lends itself well to foot-mounting.... Click for product information.

Here are some more frame grabs...

Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age.

[ltdiver 3]

Quote

That's a $300 Century Precision Optics .3 superfisheye. From their website "The .3X Ultra Fisheye Adapter offers an extreme fisheye effect and a high degree of barrel distortion.

Yeah. However, if you look at your listed web site's sample images they do not have vignetting in their shots....only the typical fish-eye distortion.

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[eUrNiCc 0]

^Actually... there is a tiny bit on the upper and lower left corners of the little video clip on their website.

I had my camera zoomed in to the point where the vingnetting was out of frame, but it came back when I brought the screenshots into the computer.

Does anybody know of any very wide (.3 and wider) lenses that don't have as much of a vingnetting issue?

And BTTT, Have you come up with any clever way to cut this thing away yet?

Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age.

[diablopilot 2]

Quote

However, I need a clever, cheap, simple cutaway system for it.

Kick the shoe off.

KISS theory. It's how I do mine.

----------------------------------------------
You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[flow 1]

What camera do you have? These shots are all taken on Century Optics .3X lens and have almost zero vingnetting.

http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~masaari/cgi-bin/ufusite/showimage.php?image=photo018&year=2005

http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~masaari/cgi-bin/ufusite/showimage.php?image=photo024&year=2005

http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~masaari/cgi-bin/ufusite/showimage.php?image=photo023&year=2005

[piisfish 140]

Quote

Does anybody know of any very wide (.3 and wider) lenses that don't have as much of a vingnetting issue?

And BTTT, Have you come up with any clever way to cut this thing away yet?

my black eye waycool lens 0.25 has no vignetting on camera screen or TV... But when I edit on th ecompuetr, the image is a tad wider and has really small black corners.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM