RIBCAGE: BACKYARD MACRO

Back-Bone
There’s a whole world of life around you everywhere if you just stop to look a little closer. All of these creatures were filmed in a suburban backyard flower garden in Ottawa, Canada. This video was shot entirely with a GoPro Hero4 Black modified with our Ribcage Mod Kit. A Computar 2/3″ 3.3X Macro Zoom lens was used. Settings: Protune… Read More

INSPECTING WITH RIBCAGE

Jon Clouter
Here at Back-Bone we do a lot of inspection work on our electronic components and fabricated parts, so we put together a high magnification solution using our own modified GoPro cameras and high magnification C-Mount lenses. With ability to output at 1080p to a large screen it makes even the tiniest details easy to see in real-time. Pictured is a Ribcage… Read More

SHOOTING THE MOON

Jon Clouter
GoPro probably didn’t have this in mind when they designed the Hero3+ ! We finally had a chance to test out the Ribcage on our Telescope. These images and the video below were taken by attaching a c-mount to 1.25″ nosepiece adapter to our Celestron C6 750mm Newtonian Reflector telescope. No lens was used on the Ribcage. It’s great to… Read More

RIBCAGE: NIGHT VISION

Jon Clouter
Some sample footage shot at night with the IR-Cut filter removed from our Ribcage Modified Hero3+ Black. Shot with an IR corrected 4.5-13mm CS-Mount. The default look has a purple hue, but tinting or desaturating the footage will easily give it the traditional night vision look as demonstrated in the video. Light source was a small IR LED panel powered… Read More