Lone wolf camera arm??

shoot2thrill25 · 01-23-2007, 10:15 PM

If anyone has used a Lone Wolf camera arm, can you tell me what give me your thoughts on it?

Justin · 01-24-2007, 02:41 PM

As with anything in life, there's good and then there's bad.

Good: Very portable, very lightweight, very easy to set up and use. Perfect for filming your own hunts.

Bad: Not long enough to reach around bigger trees, especially when filmign another hunter. Not big enough to support a larger camera (anything much bigger than a GL2). The head that comes with it sucks.

So there you have it. For filming your own hunts with a small camera you really can't beat it. For anything more than that, you might want to look at something a little bigger.

TEmbry · 01-24-2007, 03:57 PM

i dont know about the lone wolf but i have gorillas camera arm (40 bucks) and it works great for me. it might not be too great for a large camera like stated above but i use a real small camera and it works awesome for meto film myself

Bloodbro · 02-10-2007, 04:48 PM

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ORIGINAL: HNIJustin

Bad: Not long enough to reach around bigger trees, especially when filmign another hunter. Not big enough to support a larger camera (anything much bigger than a GL2). The head that comes with it sucks.

I am on the Lone Wolf Pro-staff and am good friends with Andrea the owner. Actually, this arm is made for the smaller cameras, but Justin has probably just seen the "standard" modal. You can purchase a 3rd link to the arm making it more suitable for larger cameras, with the extra arm a XL2 camera will work. Andrea was experimenting with better heads also, while I was at his Xmass party, and I would be surprized if he has not found a better one by now. I was purchaseing all my arms without heads and getting the heads from John Kitscha at http://www.ultimaterecreation.biz/ I don't think he has "panheads" listed
on the website, but he can certainly get you what you need if you email him from his site.

Justin · 02-11-2007, 06:02 PM

Dan - you're correct, I was using an out-of-the-box arm with the standard head and 2 sections. I replaced the head with a Bogan 501 (if I remember exactly) which helped a lot. I still wanted a little extra length though, and a 3rd section would've been awesome. Still love it for self-filming, but definitely wasn't cutting the mustard trying to film someone else.

Bloodbro · 03-04-2007, 05:32 PM

Justin,
You can still get that 3rd arm if you want. Its just another alum. bar and
hardwear so price would be minamal to add on to your set up.