01May P&C Palo Alto Adapter – Available
Old image above with a GoPro + Painters Pole + Palo Alto Adapter hiking around the Monterey Bay
Can you believe it’s been almost 9 months since the Palo Alto adapter was last available? Sorry guys, so many things happened in the last few months and it wasn’t very high on the priority list. In fact even this time around we only have a few dozen available right now. Below are a couple of examples from my Sony HX9V with the Palo Alto adapter on the Shur-Line Painters Pole
Shot with Palo Alto
Palo Alto (loosely translated means Tall Stick) is a custom machined steel adapter designed to fit on my favorite telescoping Shur-Line Painters Pole
Below is me goofing around with the Sony HX9V on the Painters Pole
Click image above to find Shur-Line Painters Pole
The new version of the Palo Alto adapter offers a slightly larger stage to support Ball Heads with the 1/4″x20 male stud. It need only be hand tightened, but it’s also notched in case you want to firm it up with a crescent wrench. The adapter was machined to fit the Shur-Line Painters Pole
You can attach a mini ball head for more angles, a friction arm, or mount your small cameras directly (great for GoPro Cameras). It’s fairly useful for Real Estate or Landscape hobbies. Others have found a way to use an LCD at the bottom of the pole to monitor video from the camera above. You can find the Palo Alto adapters available at http://PhotographyandCinema.com (click here).
Palo Alto Paint Pole Adapter from PhotographyandCinema.com
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May 1st, 2012 at 4:23 pm
I know you avoid PVC, but a DIY option for making one of these adapters is a 1/2″ PVC female adapter with a 1/2″ PVC cap glued on it, and a 1/4″x20 screw that is predrilled through the top of the cap. Though the threading on the 1/2″ PVC female adapter is finer, the painter pole threading screws onto it very tightly and secure surprisingly.
May 1st, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Finally!
Grabbed one, can’t wait to try it out with my hx9v as well. Do you think it’ll hold a gh2 with the 20mm pancake?
May 1st, 2012 at 6:18 pm
@Tony Carretti – For safety reasons it’s listed to support around 1 lb., but I personally have used my Canon 5D Mark II on there several times. I use a wireless trigger remote to fire the camera.
May 1st, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Emm do you own “photography and cinema” by chance?
May 1st, 2012 at 6:42 pm
@Patrick – I don’t own PhotographyandCinema, but I do work closely with. I enjoy designing products, and people have shown interest in some of these wacky ideas. But because i’m too busy to answer emails, pack, ship, customer service, etc. I let those guys do all the heavy lifting. Pretty soon, they may carry other products to resell, but for now it’s mostly original designed stuff.
May 1st, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Great. Coincidentally, I just checked P&C last night for the Palo Alto – as I have a shoot this Sunday and really need it.
Ordered it, and hoping it gets here Saturday.
May 1st, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Thank goodness. Have been waiting on this one. Just ordered one.
May 1st, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Emm!
…now if we could only find a way to tilt the camera for the ULTIMATE DROP CRANE SHOT! Everbody think, how could we do this?
I am going to use it for Real estate photography shots…
BUT! How kool would a huge drop-shot look on video from that height!
Anybody got a solution for this?
May 1st, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Hm i like the painters pole, might have to get one to use as a cheap boom pole option.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I was hoping for a 3/8 screw so it could be more solid and no adapter needed to put a ball head or a boom mic
May 1st, 2012 at 9:07 pm
@JG – It’s plenty sturdy even with a 3/8″ adapter, and if used for Audio, I think the painters pole would be something more to think about. Some telescoping poles will transmit noise.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:44 pm
@billybob – Yeah sorry for the delay, but it’s a very niche product. I would love to bring the price down too, but they are only made in small quantities. On the plus side, everything on the PhotographyandCinema.com website is available with free shipping in the USA.
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:15 am
when is the P&C cage going to come out?!?
May 2nd, 2012 at 6:39 am
been waiting for one.. I have no reason for it other then to swing my gh2 into the air for fun and maybe spy on neighboors so i got one.
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:52 am
yeah 1/4 stud should be enough for a small dslr with a fish eye lense
I got the DIY paint roller handle with a 3/8 screw and a giotto ballhead, its nice and seems solid, but still looks like a paint roller hanlde! so i had to get the palo alto! 
if you ever go the 3/8 route I’ll get some more! thanks dude!
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 am
@JG – When you get it, try throwing a 3/8 adapter on there and see if it still doesn’t feel solid. Here’s a photo with three of my adapters that have the 3/8 adapter on it. I think it’s very solid. You can see the older Palo Alto, and the new ones have the larger stage area.
May 4th, 2012 at 11:18 am
I am so sad right now. Been waiting to hear when these would come back in stock… been in the Yucatan filming ocellated turkeys, just got back, tried to order, and it says unavailable. Are there more coming?
May 4th, 2012 at 11:21 am
@Mark Strand – Yes, i’ll keep you in the loop. It won’t be a long delay like last time (9 months).
May 4th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Wow. Ordered on wed. And recieved it on Friday!
May 4th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I,m not going to use to the painters pole for anything else. Which loctite should I use?
I think I saw someone said 424???
May 4th, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Yes, when do you anticipate the next batch to come in? Always missing these things by like a day or two(same thing happened with the 12mm hyper prime).
May 5th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
“Ordered it, and hoping it gets here Saturday.”
FYI … It did get on here Saturday.
May 5th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
When will they be in stock again and will they fit any painters pole?
May 5th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
@Lee Mullen – It’s in the article. Mentioned there will be another small batch on Monday. Most Painter poles, mop sticks, broom sticks, etc use about the same type of thread.
May 7th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
bhahaha – Palo Alto – Nice name pare. And an even better idea. Will pick one up soon.
May 8th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Emm, just got my palo alto and it looks really nice and professional!!!! thanks dude!! Had to look for a 3/8 adapter on my spare parts box and I found one! I have the giottos 1304 but its not holding my dslr quite well what other ball head do you recomend?
May 8th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
@JG – I have a small Giottos too and it seemed to hold the DSLR ok. There’s a few others out there, but they start to run around the $40 dollar range.
May 28th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Received mine a while back and am very impressed with the quality. One question though… I haven’t had any luck getting this to fit on any other painting poles besides the Shur-Line Easy-Reach. And I have tried 10-15 different ones at my local Lowes/Home Depot. Anyone have any painters poles that they know will work? I’m looking for something in the 12-16ft range when extended.
March 22nd, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Can I use this on my Rode Professional BOOM ?
March 25th, 2013 at 8:03 am
@Andy – Most boom poles have a 5/8 mount. This will not work.