Now I know that it sounds like a bad idea to hang something on a mount that's designed to hold, but it would really help me. I'm designing a crane-like dolly (not jib) that hold onto the camera. Instead of designing something to wrap around the camera and still give me access to all of the buttons/screen, I thought I might just hang it off of the hot shoe mount. Seeing as the camera is really lightweight, and I would have a small PVC pipe for a handle to turn and angle etc... not much weight would be put on it. Do you think it's too dangerous for the camera?