Lightning Rod

The Lightning Rod is one of the most useful and no-nonsense tools that you can implement into your productions. It doesn’t take much description or explanation to understand how useful this configuration can be but now with the new Cloud Mount Slingshot Isolator and Portarail support, this is an optimized and refined kit to take this gimbal mounting technique to another level. This is also a perfect way to move a beastly gimbal like the Movi XL which is not designed for handheld use.

Lightning Rod Kits include our Portarail collapsable rails and Pipe Clamps so you can “dock” the system onto light stands. The Pipe Clamps are very handy for this setup because of their upside-down “U” design. This allows you to rest the system on light stands without having to tighten down any screws or clamps. Clamps can be used with both “baby” and “junior” stands.

We first saw a standard Cloud Mount on this type of setup from Chris Fisher (Vancouver) and instantly recognized its practicality and versatility in being able to move the camera quickly to achieve angles and camera movement that would ordinarily be complicated.  Now with the elastic components of the Slingshot this is an ideal solution for adding vibration/movement isolation to this no-nonsense yet infinitely useful technique. We look forward to seeing a lot of great BTS customer photos from this one.

Photos below of Chris Fisher’s setups with the original Cloud Mount.

Photo: Chris Fisher

Photo: Chris Fisher

Photo: Chris Fisher

Photo: Chris Fisher

Photo: Chris Fisher