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magicmarmot

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Jan 28, 2009 01:01

A few days ago, I posted a message that I was looking to make an LCD mount so I could use a flatscreen as a field monitor for Darthcam.

The idea was loosely based on these pictures:

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filmmaking, building stuff

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molasses January 28 2009, 07:44:55 UTC

smart cookie.

magicmarmot January 28 2009, 08:04:43 UTC

Absolutely. :)

azul_ros January 28 2009, 07:59:58 UTC

Yours looks more aesthetically pleasing also! :)

magicmarmot January 28 2009, 08:04:28 UTC

I'm all about function over form, but it just kinda happened that way.

azul_ros January 28 2009, 08:16:44 UTC

I hear ya on that! I have been in a few rental cars whose design was done to "look good". The features were so non-ergonomic. I hated that! And so often, I'll be doing something & think that whoever made the item could have changed a few things to make it work better. I don't have the knowledge of how to make things work better, I just realize that things are often not made to work as good as they ought to.

magicmarmot January 28 2009, 08:20:17 UTC

It's actually something that I've studied, in usability of products. It's also something that's a nightmare to do in a corporate setting because everybody has their own opinion of how things should work, and it's frustrating as hell.

luno January 28 2009, 16:36:31 UTC

That looks great! Mind sharing the recipe and sources? Did you have to do any milling/drilling yourself?

magicmarmot January 28 2009, 17:06:47 UTC

The baby/junior mount itself is a TVMP mount that I bought a while ago from what is now Cinequipt. The LCD mount is an Inland LCD mount (Model R1) from Micro Center. I had to drill out the LCD with a 1/2" bit and bought a 1/2-13 hex-head bolt to fit the deeper throat of the mount.
If I had an end mill, I probably would have flattened out the knuckle on the LCD mount a little, but I'm not gonna bitch.

I also moved the lockwasher down between the mount and the TVMP to improve the clearance, otherwise the LCD spider was binding a bit when I'd try to flip it over.

The flipping it over part is important, because a 35mm DOF adapter flips the image upside down in the camera, and being able to see it in the correct orientation on the monitor is a good thing.