GH4 Good & cheap rods setup for GH4?

Jaime Valles

Jaime Valles

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Hello, all.

I'm looking for a 15mm rods setup for my GH4. Nothing fancy, I just need to be able to attach a follow focus unit to my camera. The GH4 is in the Fhugen Honu cage (V1), if that helps. Cheap is best, but I don't want it to fall apart after 1 week of use. As long as it works well, I don't care about brand names or anything like that. Solid, cheap, good. Any ideas?

Thanks! :cheesy:
 
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The Fotga stuff isn't horrible and it is cheap, the DP500 stuff is often better than the DP3000 stuff, but that isn't universal. Biggest issue is finding a riser to put it at the proper height.
 
Both of those look like they might be too high, which is fine if you are using the cheap Chinese stuff like Fotga (et. al.) but may not play as well with higher end stuff designed to work at 85mm center of rod to center of lens. I know that the DP3000 mattebox doesn't normally go low enough to meet the standard and that the DP500 mkII follow focus should be fine up to about 100mm center to center, can't speak for other products because I don't own them.

That said, I've modified my stuff to make sure it hit the 85mm standard, there are downsides to that which I'll deal with in time.
 
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