Have you ever needed to attach “your digital camera to cylindrical objects in extreme conditions”? Perhaps you find yourself cold and shivering in a torrential downpour, Thermos in one hand and umbrella in the other, yet desperate to snap a picture whilst you sip your hot beverage?
With the Flymount, you can do it all, and stay dry, warm and refreshed as you clamp the camera onto either the umbrella-shaft or the Thermos itself. The Flymount is an Australian camera-mount and, being from a land that spawns fit, sporty and outgoing progeny, it is made more for extreme sports than for extreme coffee-sipping (itself a real sport in my run-down Barcelona barrio).
The mount is made from glass-reinforced nylon and stainless-steel, and holds on to your camera in two ways. First is the standard tripod-screw, and second is an adjustable retaining-strap which wraps around the camera’s body and stops it from unscrewing itself as it is jiggled and whacked.
On the other end, the urethane-covered jaws screw-clamp down onto “cylindrical objects in extreme conditions.” Your Thermos will have to be very thin, though: the jaws can only bite down on cylindrical objects of between 20-40mm (0.8-1.6-inches) in diameter. It will, however, hold them tight in non-extreme conditions, too.
The Flymount looks pretty tough, and so it should if you are to entrust your ruggedized camera to its embrace as you do “extreme” things on windsurfers or mountain bikes. Having been out of action for a week due to an “extreme” broken leg, I’m thinking of ordering one of these and attaching a camera to the base of one of my crutches, whereupon it can witness me doing some “extreme” hobbling from room to room, and witness the meteor-storm-like hail of fragile cups and gadgets that rain on the kitchen floor as I lumber incompetently through the house and sweep them from every surface.
Available now for AU$95 ($92), cylindrical objects not included.
Flymount product page [Flymount. Thanks, Tom!]
See Also:
- Extreme, Custom and Pimped-Out Kegerators
- Extreme-commuting
- GigaPan Releases Camera Rig for Automated Panorama Photos
- Monsterpod Camera-Mount Sticks to Almost Anything
- Helmet Mount Puts Cameras Up-Top and (First) Personal
- Shake, Rattle and Roll: Camera Mount for Bikes
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