Dana Dolly

[David Edward Keen]

Yep, returning the crap, saving up & buying the dana dolly. Lesson learned. Jeez Louise

[Stuart Brereton]

My only issue was the speed of the wheels - they had not much resistance. I'd rather have to put a bit of weight behind my moves. Without any resistance, gradual movements weren't as easy as I'd like. I suspect there's a common piece of kit I don't know about that would be an addition to the Dana?

 

 

I usually have one hand on the Dana to push, so I let my fingers drag on the wheels to provide a little dampening on moves. I use it with an O'Connor 2575 head and a large camera, so it has more inertia to begin with.

[David Daniel Doherty]

 

I usually have one hand on the Dana to push, so I let my fingers drag on the wheels to provide a little dampening on moves. I use it with an O'Connor 2575 head and a large camera, so it has more inertia to begin with.

 

Cheers, sir.

 

Yeah, such techniques may do the trick but a heavier push is still much better

[JD Hartman]

 

Cheers, sir.

 

Yeah, such techniques may do the trick but a heavier push is still much better

 

Heavier push? Do you mean more rolling resistance or a dolly with more weight so it has more momentum and moves smoother?

[David Daniel Doherty]

Either

[Stuart Brereton]

 

Cheers, sir.

 

Yeah, such techniques may do the trick but a heavier push is still much better

The Dana is designed to be lightweight. If it's more weight you want, the Dana is the wrong tool for the job.

[David Daniel Doherty]

I fear this is becoming tedious, but a dolly can be lightweight and still have some wheel resistance, making the camera heavier to push. One has nothing to do with the other. This, therefore, allowing for gradual movements. And the tool remainging lightweight.

 

Goodnight

[Stuart Brereton]

I fear this is becoming tedious,

I'm sorry if our answers are boring you. Perhaps you'd prefer to be ignored.

[Robin R Probyn]

Some of the early Fisher dollies had square wheels.. unfortunately this soon went out of fashion.. but did provide excellent resistance for the initial move.. and was the making of many a young filmmaker of yesteryear ..

[David Daniel Doherty]

Some of the early Fisher dollies had square wheels.. unfortunately this soon went out of fashion.. but did provide excellent resistance for the initial move.. and was the making of many a young filmmaker of yesteryear ..

 

Ha!

[JD Hartman]

You could add a shot bag to increase momentum and make the moves smoother, but too much weight on speedrail would be undesirable. You could switch the wheels out to ones that are softer and a stickier composition, but the simple construction doesn't allow the addition of a device to add a variable about of drag to it. It is what is, a roller skate.