DIY Handheld Rig - Zacuto Style

Fidelis

Active member
I'm about to shoot a feature over the next month and have finally assembled my rig. Pretty much, I went through and studied what everyone else was doing, stole their ideas and made them my own.

The shoulder stock is a paint ball gun stock, bought for 15 off of amazon.

I mounted the camera to a tripod head (with quick release and everything) I found at a goodwill for 10 bucks.

The handle is cheesy cam's idea from his fantastic cage.

The eye piece is that LCDVF knock off from ebay I found through the thread here!

Without the eyepiece, I probably spent about 50 bucks including a hand saw and paint.

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There she is. Left hand for focus, right for steadying/ pushing the paintball stock to my shoulder. Painted it black with flat black spray paint, scored a $10 tripod head at goodwill. Screwed that sucker on! Other than that, I mashed on a bike handle, hand sawed down a metal bar . . . I'm so proud. First real DIY project.
 
Wow! That looks very good! Would you mind posting some step by step instructions on how to assemble this rig?

Thanks :)
 
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