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Michael White
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p.1 #1 · What legs to get to hold laptop

I have a bogen platform for holding a laptop. It came with a super clamp and a background light-stand and a super-arm. I am looking for a set of legs that will hold my laptop while I am shooting either tethered or not. I may get the bogen arm that will hold several heads and a laptop like what Joe McNalley uses in his videos. I just need a sturdy set of legs for this use. I could upgrade my set of legs I am using now and get something better and save these for it but I am not in the market for new main legs just some cheap legs that will not fall over with my laptop on top of them.

Jul 11, 2009 at 09:38 PM

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p.1 #2 · What legs to get to hold laptop

I used a couple of ancient Bogen 3021 legs for all sorts of things. Is that strong enough?

EBH

Jul 11, 2009 at 09:44 PM

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p.1 #3 · What legs to get to hold laptop

Michael,

I rigged my laptop to my Gitzo Basalt. That way, when I moved my tripod, everything came along. I placed the clamp on the metal part of the tripod.

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Alternatively, I found that this worked too.

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Jul 12, 2009 at 01:31 PM

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p.1 #4 · What legs to get to hold laptop

Lou, what's the name of that clamp/laptop table system? I was looking to do something like this but didn't find anything like that.

Jul 12, 2009 at 02:49 PM

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p.1 #5 · What legs to get to hold laptop

It does look like this one:

Manfrotto 183 ALUMINIUM TABLE FOR PROJECTORS

Jul 12, 2009 at 08:07 PM

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p.1 #6 · What legs to get to hold laptop

victorXT wrote:
It does look like this one:

Manfrotto 183 ALUMINIUM TABLE FOR PROJECTORS

That's correct, however, I needed to add a big washer on the bottom, which I did not have. So I found an old pizza cutter, popped out the round blade, and made sure the screw thread ont the super clamp extension arm passed through.

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Jul 12, 2009 at 08:48 PM

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p.1 #7 · What legs to get to hold laptop

What's the name of the clamp and support arm?

Jul 13, 2009 at 12:45 AM

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p.1 #8 · What legs to get to hold laptop

Chris Noyes wrote:
What's the name of the clamp and support arm?

I believe its this one.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546371-REG/Manfrotto_by_Bogen_Imaging_035_035_Super_Clamp_without.html#features

and the extension arm with stud:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546373-REG/Manfrotto_by_Bogen_Imaging_042_042_Extension_Arm_with.html

You will need a large flat washer to secure the table to the stud.

Jul 13, 2009 at 02:04 AM

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p.1 #9 · What legs to get to hold laptop

Thanks a bunch Lou!

Jul 13, 2009 at 02:19 AM


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