Back-Bone Mod Used for Deep Sea Imaging

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Back-Bone’s modified GoPro cameras have been installed on the DSV Alvin deep ocean submersible, and on a variety of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Our ‘Modulus’ sensor extension and housing was used to fit a Hero4 Black into a small deep sea cylindrical pressure vessel. The camera was too wide to fit into the pressure vessel without modification and the lens… Read More

Back-Bone and Nat Geo Lions 360

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Don’t you hate it when lions eat all your cameras? We provided our Ribcage modified GoPro cameras and lenses to film National Geographic’s Lions 360 video, plus we were able to help in other ways. During filming several of the production’s stock GoPro cameras were actually destroyed by the curious lions. Rather than write them off, we had the production… Read More

Mounting Your Ribcage For Outdoor Fun

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We’ve designed our Ribcage Modified GoPro cameras to be as versatile as possible, with native support for M12, CS and C-Mount lenses as well as features like interchangeable filters, flange adjustment and more. There are some differences in the dimensions from the original camera however, so let’s take a look at how we can use some of the various GoPro mounting… Read More

RIBCAGE AIR: 3D DATA & FLIGHTPATH RECONSTRUCTION

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With this fun project we used XYZ RGB’s Scannerkiller technology to extract and reconstruct an accurate flight-path and virtual camera from some of our drone footage. We used a Ribcage Modified Hero4 Black mounted on a 3DR Solo. Using only the video frames we are able to extract 3D models and camera positions. A virtual camera can then be created… Read More

Ribcage AIR: Newfoundland

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This video features lots of great shots from the air with our Modified Hero4 Black cameras mounted on a 3DR Solo drone. The gimbals are balanced with our Dead Weight kit for Solo. Most handheld shots were performed with an Orbit Pole + a Z1 Rider 3-Axis Gimbal. Shot in Elliston, Maberly and Brigus Newfoundland, Canada   Equipment Used: Ribcage… Read More

RIBCAGE AIR: 500mm LENS ON GOPRO

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We’ve brought this setup out to lots of trade shows and some of you have been asking to see a little footage from it. We put this quick video together featuring some Osprey that live nearby to our office. 3 x Ribcage AIR modified Hero4 Black 5.4mm M12 Lens 8-80mm C-Mount Varifocal Lens 500mm Sigma Telephoto Lens Canon EF to… Read More