C100: D-Tap options

[DeanFS7]

Hi all, FS5 user here. Former C100 user as I know a lot of people are. I miss my C100 (I shoot run and gun doc stuff) and consider a C100 MKII almost every day. I miss Canon's colour science and I miss the AF. I feel like I potentially missed less when I had my C100. What's stopping me is the lack of 50mbps in HD mode as some of what I shoot now goes to broadcast. An option I'm considering is to get the Atomos Ninja Star and then D-Tap power to it from the battery in the camera, is this something any of you are doing and if so could you recommend me any batteries? Thanks.

 

[jhnkng]

I've been searching high and low for a C100 battery with a d-tap out, and I don't think they exist. Swit does make a C100 battery with a regular DC out, so that should work. The Ninja Star is supposed to last 5 hours a charge so you can probably get away with using just the stock sony battery. I just run regular Sony batteries for my Ninja Blade, it sucks having an extra set of batteries to charge, but each of the small batteries last a couple of hours each so it's not too bad.

 

[puredrifting]

Or just buy some cheap 177wh MaxOak V-Mounts off of Amazon for less than $200.00 ea., put a baseplate and rails on your camera and run your camera and Atomos Recorder, toaster, EVF, espresso machine off one battery all day ;-) That's what I am doing with the C200. Sure it's heavier but it's rearward distributed weight that actually stabilizes the small and light C200 when shoulder mounted. I will still keep a few small batteries around for when I need to go super light weight but powering off of bricks makes more sense for many pros. You can power outboard recorders, EVFs, lights, recharge your phone, etc. It's just so much easier to bring 1 or 2 batteries to a shoot than half a dozen small ones.

 

[puredrifting]

I've been searching high and low for a C100 battery with a d-tap out, and I don't think they exist...

I have some Ikan large FS7 batteries 14.4V that have D-Tap out but I agree, I have not found a Canon battery that has it. Also, keep in mind that a C100/300 battery would only be 7.4V, not enough to power much besides the camera. The C300 MKII are, C200 batteries will be 14.4V

 

[DeanFS7]

Or just buy some cheap 177wh MaxOak V-Mounts off of Amazon for less than $200.00 ea., put a baseplate and rails on your camera and run your camera and Atomos Recorder, toaster, EVF, espresso machine off one battery all day ;-) That's what I am doing with the C200. Sure it's heavier but it's rearward distributed weight that actually stabilizes the small and light C200 when shoulder mounted. I will still keep a few small batteries around for when I need to go super light weight but powering off of bricks makes more sense for many pros. You can power outboard recorders, EVFs, lights, recharge your phone, etc. It's just so much easier to bring 1 or 2 batteries to a shoot than half a dozen small ones.

Shoulder mounting isn't an option for me unfortunately. Neither is building my rig up so much. I'll work something out. Makes more sense for me to have more smaller batteries than go V Mount and bulky.

 

[puredrifting]

Shoulder mounting isn't an option for me unfortunately. Neither is building my rig up so much. I'll work something out. Makes more sense for me to have more smaller batteries than go V Mount and bulky.

I get it. Different strokes. It's just nice having a battery that runs the whole show the whole day. I was getting sick of constantly trading out the tiny LP-E6s on my Blade. Definitely a lot more bulk and weight to drag around though.

 

[fboonzaier]

Being able to make a Vmount Battery work for you and carrying your camera batteries in your kit for an emergency is really ideal, if possible....both Blade and Shogun draw a lot of power....add to that power for the camera, and your power needs go up considerably....perhaps with more info as to how you use your camera someone can help you more with a sollution.

 

[DeanFS7]

Being able to make a Vmount Battery work for you and carrying your camera batteries in your kit for an emergency is really ideal, if possible....both Blade and Shogun draw a lot of power....add to that power for the camera, and your power needs go up considerably....perhaps with more info as to how you use your camera someone can help you more with a sollution.

I document the life of a band as a full time job. Lead singer is a good foot shorter than me and to be honest I'm just not a fan of the on the shoulder pointing down look. Also I need to grab my camera and run at times in certain situations with fans chasing them/us etc it's very much fun and gun. Obviously I have days where it would be lovely to go to my shoulder but for the most part I'm handheld. Even with my FS5 plus Shogun Inferno.. (pic attached)