SGPro Blade Review

As a bloke I never look at instructions but just this once I had a look at the manual. It's really comprehensive. Very clear and very useful. Well done Wayne!
 
Yeah, I heard Wayne set up a similar promotional offer. if you order a follow focus with 5 gear rings with your SGblade
package you have a choice of a

German Shepard,
Chiwawa,
Siberian Husky
and of course Labra-doodle.


Only for a limited time (does not contain dogs)
 
Wow, everything is so professional with the boxes, manuals and the lens pen included with the rotorazor! Feels like your bying a real product :D
 
Philip,

If you happen to have a chance to compare SGBlade to Letus Extreme with wide angle lenses like 20-24mm regarding vignetting and light fall off on the edges I'd be very interested in hearing about that.

Thanks already for the wonderful pics of the boxes. Looks like a definate upgrade from LEX but I'll keep my cool and wait for some user comments :)

Sami
 
hoarp001 said:
No it isnt, the black one turns it on and the red twisty knob adjusts the speed.
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he was referring to the black knob with the red top. The black button below it turns it on, the black knob with the red top adjusts the speed all the way to a stop...
 
OK...just got back from filming some test footage. I haven't looked at it yet so all I can give are my first impressions...

It was easy to set up, personally I think Wayne should bring out a 77mm version rather than use step up rings as they are horrible things that can easily get stuck on cameras. But I mounted it onto the ex1 using the ring very easily, adjusted the X/Y very simply using the grub screws on the flip module and had a perfectly aligned image.

I was zooming into about z70 to lose the edges clearly, maybe about z72 to be safe. A feature that I am glad this had that the Letus line has but the brevis doesn't with the EX1 is the ability to be able to zoom all the way in and maintain focus without really soft edges. Useful if you need a tighter shot quickly!

The rods are fine, not up to Zacuto quality but then they are a fraction of the price! They are light, sturdy and a perfect match for the Blade. The support bracket screwed on easily and I had my rig all up and ready in 20 minutes.

I can't comment on picture quality as I haven't imported the footage into my mac yet, but it looked good on the ex1 LCD. One thing I was warned to expect was edge sharpness, with wide lenses especially, you needed to have the ex1 closed down a lot to get it. Not so much on normal lenses. Buy on my 17mm I struggled to get edge to edge sharpness, but this is a very wide lens!

I stopped down to f11 and it looked fine, I also managed to put 1/500th shutter in. Bit difficult with the light in London today, also in the LCD it looked fine.

I will update later with some footage and a proper assessment. So far it all looks great!
 
Philip, How about the single screw on support to the adapter ? If you have to hand hold your camera for a while, will the entire adapter rig comes loose from this single screw on attachment ? This is a problem of my old LEX.

I kinda prefer the lunch box design that holds the adapter on both rails like the RedRock and old SGpro. Is this an issue at all with the Blade system ?
 
The single screw on the lex...yes I have lost many of those! It seems to be fine here, but only time will tell. I much prefer this to the lunchbox design...

Lumiere, is will be a short.
 
I am very close to order sgblade,but i am still suspicuos about this adapter thing..anyway waiting for the film....:)
 
If i am going to buy a adapter,it will be sgblade,it was letus but after blade update it became definatelly blade. But my problem is about generally about adapter.Yes maybe they were the cheapest way to get that look but now they are more expensive then the camera itself. Then it makes me start to thing about it..Yes i own a hvx but if i will buy an adapter around 4k i would sell my hvx, add the money and go with hpx or smthngelse, but seems i have to buy an adapter soon:((
 
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