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A while ago I posted an image of my "free" jerk stopper solution in a thread. It's just some cord and a paper clip.
I decided to get fancy with them... They are made with 60lb salt water swivel snaps and 100lb dyneema braid.
The short ones work just the same.
The long ones are intended to go around something like a support leg/column/etc... it's useful at the computer end of the cable if you don't have a specific anchor point available.
The anodized aluminum bit is a tent cord tensioner. The cable I'm using here is a very heavy USB3 version, and it also works well with thinner cables (less of a loop/tighter bend). This allows easy swapping of cables for different cameras. If the cable is thin enough, the snap hook could be used directly instead.
This is all way overkill in strength... certainly more than enough to pull everything over or trip a person before anything failed. *Always* use a slip connection in the cable somewhere when shooting tethered!
If you had to buy all of the stuff it would probably cost around $20 to make 5-10 of them. Still a lot cheaper than $17 ea... and you would have a lot of leftover cord/shrink tubing.
I decided to get fancy with them... They are made with 60lb salt water swivel snaps and 100lb dyneema braid.
The short ones work just the same.
The long ones are intended to go around something like a support leg/column/etc... it's useful at the computer end of the cable if you don't have a specific anchor point available.
The anodized aluminum bit is a tent cord tensioner. The cable I'm using here is a very heavy USB3 version, and it also works well with thinner cables (less of a loop/tighter bend). This allows easy swapping of cables for different cameras. If the cable is thin enough, the snap hook could be used directly instead.
This is all way overkill in strength... certainly more than enough to pull everything over or trip a person before anything failed. *Always* use a slip connection in the cable somewhere when shooting tethered!
If you had to buy all of the stuff it would probably cost around $20 to make 5-10 of them. Still a lot cheaper than $17 ea... and you would have a lot of leftover cord/shrink tubing.
