EVF SOLUTION (for now...)

Tata Steva

Tata Steva

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I had a horrible shoot last Friday. It was a children TV show on location in cement factory (!!!). The whole shoot was handheld and this was my first serious "out with F3 handheld". The lens options were: 20-35/2.8 and 11-16/2.8 Tokinas...

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My hand held "rig" is a "illegitimate child" of Zacuto and Redrock (and eventually Cinevate, when I get their handles next week): see photos. I used Redrock's handles on EX1 set up, but on F3 because of added weight they became absolute and now sold...

The camera set up was covered and wrapped in black garbage bag because of ENORMOUS amount of dust at the location. All that made the "business" of shooting with F3 off shoulder with that flimsy LCD mounted with heavy hoodman (used on EX1 for few years) even more difficult...

I somehow survived...

Fast forward Sunday morning: I opened web, started browsing my "usual suspect" pages and found a post of Leonard Levy.

The bulb went "ON", and I opened my "treasure chest" of all spare parts and accessories I have for video and photo shooting.

Here is the outcome:

The viewer:

HOODMAN EX KIT PRO + adapter shoe mount (from old flash bracket) + one screw (and one drilled hole on Hoodman)

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Magic arm (here mounted on F3 for "transport mode)

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Here is it how it looks set up for hand held mode


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Different angle while camera is set up on sticks for "upright" position

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The set up is EXTREMELY sturdy and solid. This is a solution that will be very usable once I complete it with couple CINEVATE's UNO handles. So far, I did not have chance to try any of the current (or almost current) EVF offerings for F3. Until I do and I find the better way, this will be fine. After all, I used this Hoodman for a few years on my "ex" EX1 and I was alright.

Thank you Leonard for making me think hard!
I am ready for tomorrow (another day of shooting hand held for the same show, no cement factory this time :2vrolijk_08:)...
 
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Steve, Just saw your post, Thanks for the acknowledgement. Your solution - brilliant man - I gotta try that . Might be more elegant and simple than my method. I have 2 arms. My 6"might be too small, but my full size Noga arm might be too heavy. I also need to keep it out of the way of my TV Logic monitor on the cameras hot shoe.

Exactly which arm are you using?

BTW - just for yucks - here's a link to the way I set up my hoodman for the T2i with a screw in the bottom:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...tach-Hoodloupe-to-Canon-T2i&highlight=hoodman
 
Thanks,
Temporarily unavailable right now , but I'm sure I can find it somewhere else - maybe my camera store.
 
Lenilenapi said:
Thanks,
Temporarily unavailable right now , but I'm sure I can find it somewhere else - maybe my camera store.
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Every decent camera store has bits like this in "chackies section"... As long as shoe adapter has a tread hole at the bottom, it's fine...
 
Just an FYI guys, The screws in the handle don't have a metal bottom, it's plastic. So if you go too deep you'll snap your ribbon cable that feels rear eye piece.

Wasn't that awesome, having your "New Camera!!!" in a power dust environment. Yikes...
 
JDDalllas said:
Just an FYI guys, The screws in the handle don't have a metal bottom, it's plastic. So if you go too deep you'll snap your ribbon cable that feels rear eye piece.

Wasn't that awesome, having your "New Camera!!!" in a power dust environment. Yikes...
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I heard somewhere that mounting holes on the body (each side) are basically part of the metal structure of the camera. That is why I connected my magic arm to the side. And the fact that I need the handle holes for other add ons...
It took moret han an hour to clean the gear off all the dust. I become an "expert" cleaner. LOL. Camera looks "out of the box" now!
 
Thanks for the tip JD. I read another post about that somewhere that might have been yours - scary. I think I'll add a lock washer to mine to keep it from going too deep.
 
@Matthew: it is front heavy, but for now that's it (I am not adding extra counter weight as the set is heavy as it is). Here is the set up from the next shoot where the monitor "on the go" was needed so it added up a a bit of balance at the rear. It looks messy as I had to put an extra battery source because of lack of proper plate on the monitor and/or some extra cables...

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This will eventually change once I get "off camera" EVF, so I can push the whole set up back on the shoulder and push forward the EVF...

@Lenilenapi: you're welcome... This will get us by until the real EVF comes up....
 
Is this what I'm looking for?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/616257-REG/Pearstone_9041690_Male_Accessory_Shoe_Adapter.html

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powervideo said:
I can find the hot shoe base adaptors easily. The question is how to affix the correct male fixrure to the Noga arm?
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Its an attachment that screws on the end. On the web site it shows it with and without the attachment. That attachment is a big chunk of metal but it has to be because its female on both ends, then the 'foot' that slides into the shoe screws in one end. So your second one (post #16) is the one.

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powervideo said:
Probably a very short arm like this one would do the job. I'd hate to buy one, then find it's too short. But long of the long arms seem...well, too long.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ..._9041670_9041670_4_2_10_7cm_Articulating.html

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This is too short. The geometry of the movement (for various angles of the hood) would not be possible with short arm. The one I use is on the edge of allowing shoulder position as well as 45 degrees + for viewing while camera is on the sticks...
 
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