HOCKEY NETCAM®

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Hardware shipped with your Netcam 4.0 Kit

Along with the Polycarbonate base, your Netcam 4.0 kit will ship with the following items:

• Vinyl protective cover

• Mounting assembly (Super clamp / ball head with attached stabilizer bracket and /silver metal toggle for tightening ball head. 

• Hex wrench

• (2) 5/8" Hex cap mounting screws (1 plus a spare)

• (2) 1" Hex Cap mounting screws   (1 plus a spare)

• (4) tooth washers (2 plus 2 spares)

• 2 camera platform screws (1 plus 1 spare)

• 1 screw for cold shoe

• Cold shoe 'flash' adapter to hold pocket wizard upright inside base

(some parts may be interchanged for similar products)

Suggested Photo Equipment

The best high end digital cameras for Netcam 4.0 use are ones with full frame sensors. This would include the Canon 5D, Canon Mark IV and Canon 1DX, 1DXII, 1DX2, 1DX3, R5, R6 and the Nikon  D3, D3X. D4, etc, etc.

Lenses that have been tested and fit inside the box include

• Canon 15mm f/2.8 

• Nikon 16mm f/2.8 

• Sigma 15mm f/2/8

• 7artisans 10mm f/2.8 

These lenses are all of the shorter variety in physical length. Larger lenses will probably NOT fit in the box! The Canon 8-15 does NOT fit.The Nikon 14-24 does NOT fit.

The maximum depth for the camera and lens inside the box is 5-15/16"

With this equipment you have enough real estate in the frame to allow for cropping, as it is difficult to aim the Netcam with 100% accuracy to keep the crossbar parallel. The 10mm works especially well for this.

This doesn't preclude you from using other cameras including those with magnification factors, and many photographers are successful using other combinations of camera bodies and lenses. 

ALSO NOTE that with full frame cameras and super wide or fisheye lenses you may experience slight vignetting in the corners of the frame from the netcam front glass.

As for triggering the camera, the preferred remote is the Pocket Wizard (www.pocketwizard.com). You should also invest in the Pocket Wizard (or other brand) pre-release cables which keep the camera "awake" similar to pressing the camera's shutter button half way. We suggest either the Pocket Wizard cable for Canon (CM-N3-ACC-1) or for Nikon (CM-N3-ACC-1). A cute little tidbit buried in the Pocket Wizard instructions mentions limited distance capabilities around "large bodies of water". Hmmmmm, sort of like 85' x 200' frozen bodies of water???? We suggest using the wizards on Long Distance Mode. Or use PW's E-Release which has worked extremely well.

Other Suggested Equipment

• Pliers 

• Level

• Blade/Knife for cutting padding on the hockey net's center bar

• Towel to gently clean water off the netcam

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