Which camera rig do you use to shoot moving car?
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What's a rig? I shoot moving cars in a variety of different ways, depending on speed, distance, etc., but I don't know if anything I've got is a rig.
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In the Talk Motorsport and Transport section there's a big long thread about car rigs.
Page one is here.
Page one is here.
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You attach the camera to the outside of the car and take photos whilst it is moving.
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Ok, if a car shooting rig is something you attach to the car then I don't do that! On the other hand you don't have to attach your bird-in-flight shooting rig to a flying bird 
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Have a look in the thread that's linked above and you'll understand everything.Ok, if a car shooting rig is something you attach to the car then I don't do that! On the other hand you don't have to attach your bird-in-flight shooting rig to a flying bird
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I've done some driving work for a car magazine doing what they call "tracking" shots, which is basically car to car moving vehicle shots.
These are taken at low speed, usually 30mph, and the photographer simply hangs out of the chase car to take shots of the target vehicle, which is the one I'm driving.
The 'tog uses a pretty slow shutter speed, about 1/30th, and takes a burst sequence, the object being to get the target vehicle sharp but with blurred wheels and background.
(They take a LOT of shots.)
Sometimes the camera car can be a hatchback or estate and the 'tog sits in the back, which is fine when the target is following, but when the target vehicle is leading the 'tog either hangs out the rear side window, or sometimes shoots around the open door of the camera vehicle. For a regular car the photographer just shoots from an open side window or out of the open rear door.
The important thing is that these shots a normally taken on a closed test track for safety, although we recently had to do a two-car shoot on a quiet country road.
The thing is, there is no "rig" involved in these shots, just a person with a camera (and quite a bit of experience.)
These are taken at low speed, usually 30mph, and the photographer simply hangs out of the chase car to take shots of the target vehicle, which is the one I'm driving.
The 'tog uses a pretty slow shutter speed, about 1/30th, and takes a burst sequence, the object being to get the target vehicle sharp but with blurred wheels and background.
(They take a LOT of shots.)
Sometimes the camera car can be a hatchback or estate and the 'tog sits in the back, which is fine when the target is following, but when the target vehicle is leading the 'tog either hangs out the rear side window, or sometimes shoots around the open door of the camera vehicle. For a regular car the photographer just shoots from an open side window or out of the open rear door.
The important thing is that these shots a normally taken on a closed test track for safety, although we recently had to do a two-car shoot on a quiet country road.
The thing is, there is no "rig" involved in these shots, just a person with a camera (and quite a bit of experience.)
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Not really, because I asked my question after going through that entire very interesting thread. The OP referred to a "semi pro carbon fibre rig". There seems no reason why a pro would want to use carbon fibre for any kind of car-mounted rig as shown in that interesting thread. It's more brittle and less adaptable than metal for that kind of thing, and not a lot lighter than a good aircraft alloy.