From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Using a turntable
- Another addition to shooting objects and tabletops is often the use of a turn table. Now this guy here is straight out of a jewelry store. You could actually find these in industrial supplies. Kevin, you've used turn tables of various sizes, they make these even big enough to turn a car, right? - Oh, absolutely. - They're not, they're not cheap, though. - No, no, not at all. And in fact, they're 3,000 dollars a day to rent. - Okay. This one not so bad. - No, no. - So this one is designed to turn an object that's about five to 10 pounds. It works great for a lot of the product shots we need to do. But yeah, you said 3,000 dollars a day to get a motorized car turn table. - Yep. - You can get those if you needed that for the really large objects, but for a small object here, it's pretty simple. Now this one is a constant speed turning one. What I would often do is put the camera to 60p, so shooting at that higher frame rate, you could actually slow it down even more if you needed to…
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