Reduce sub vibration for camera tripods

[Brad Weber]

Chances are at least a good part of the problem is structureborne and as Jon noted, that is best attacked by decoupling at the source. Decoupling a light source from a heavy receiver (e.g. sub to floor slab) is much more effective than trying to isolate a light receiver from a heavy driving force (e.g. camera from the Flori slab). Neoprene, carpet, etc. under the tripod legs will probably not help much, there is simply not much for any isolation to 'work against' thus requiring a very compliant isolator with sufficient deflection in order to achieve any degree of isolation, an approach which will often in itself then be a bit unstable or result in movement with any camera operation. You could build a very heavy camera platform, effectively its own inertia base, and isolate that from the structure, that would make any isolation used between the structure and camera more effective.

[Toetagger]

Yeah that makes sense Brad thanks for clearing that up for me. Got to brush up on my physics more

[Ryno]

Went to Catalyst this year and the sound was booming! My chest was vibrating from the low-end and they had to be running 100db in there. They a multiple camera set up including but not limited to 3 or 4 stationary cameras on platforms. None of these cameras were experiencing vibration. The platforms were probably 4 feet tall and the cameras were on tripods. Does anyone know what the "standard" is for those type platforms?