puredrifting
Major Contributor
I am really not thrilled with the quality or function of the included LA-V1 Touchscreen Mounting Arm. It's just sort of flimsy and while you can adjust it one handed, which is nice, as we all know, it puts the touchscreen too close to your face to use as an eyepiece/monitor when shooting shoulder mounted. I played around with one of my Ultralight Control Systems monitor arms to see where I could place the C200 touchscreen. To do this, you need to have 15mm rods in place, which I do from my Zacuto VCT Baseplate. I also played around with putting the 1/4" 20 end of the ULCS arm into the handle front mount where the LA-V1 fits into and in a way, I like it more than mounting off of the 15mm rods down below, but I need to order a 1/4" 20 to ball piece to attach to what I have to try that.
I am shooting on a documentary tomorrow, probably a 1 hour walk and talk, following a subject around. We will be indoors so the sun reflections won't be too bad on the screen. This setup, as pictured, moves the screen 2" more forward than the LA-V1 can, it's barely forward enough for me to use, even with reading glasses but those of you who have younger eyes that can focus closer may find moving the whole touchscreen 2" forward enough to use shoulder mounted. The issue I run into is I use the 17-55 2.8 IS as my lens for this type of shoot and at 17mm, you must carefully position the arm and touchscreen, then double check that the arm or touchscreen are not being seen around the edges of the frame. I won't be using the touchscreen to touch focus but it will be nice to have waveforms visible and to be able to use the BT-709 LUT that I cannot send out to my EVF Pro since the C200 doesn't output LUTs to the HDMI output. I thought I would really use the touchscreen a lot more for focus than I do. Most of the time, I am using face tracking and even when there are multiple faces in frame, I can easily jump from focusing on each face using the grip joystick. So I like the screen but the touchscreen aspect of it is not that big of a deal for my shooting at least, although it will be handy when shooting tabletop and objects I suppose?
www.filmtools.com sells the ULCS system, it's sort of Lego approach where you buy a bunch of different pieces to create the piece you need for the task you want to accomplish, they are actually made for holding underwater flash systems for still cameras but they are very handy on digital cinema cameras. This setup cost me about $200.00 but I've had it for a few years now and it's still going strong, good stuff. One advantage of using the CN-E 18-80 T4.4 for this same kind of shoot is that the lens is just physically a lot longer so you could position the touchscreen farther forward without worrying about getting the arm or screen into the frame so there is that to think about. I've also discovered that the Hoodman H400 while it doesn't cover every millimeter of the C200's screen, it does make the screen fairly usable in semi-shade, semi-sun, still not great for those nuclear bright days though.
I am shooting on a documentary tomorrow, probably a 1 hour walk and talk, following a subject around. We will be indoors so the sun reflections won't be too bad on the screen. This setup, as pictured, moves the screen 2" more forward than the LA-V1 can, it's barely forward enough for me to use, even with reading glasses but those of you who have younger eyes that can focus closer may find moving the whole touchscreen 2" forward enough to use shoulder mounted. The issue I run into is I use the 17-55 2.8 IS as my lens for this type of shoot and at 17mm, you must carefully position the arm and touchscreen, then double check that the arm or touchscreen are not being seen around the edges of the frame. I won't be using the touchscreen to touch focus but it will be nice to have waveforms visible and to be able to use the BT-709 LUT that I cannot send out to my EVF Pro since the C200 doesn't output LUTs to the HDMI output. I thought I would really use the touchscreen a lot more for focus than I do. Most of the time, I am using face tracking and even when there are multiple faces in frame, I can easily jump from focusing on each face using the grip joystick. So I like the screen but the touchscreen aspect of it is not that big of a deal for my shooting at least, although it will be handy when shooting tabletop and objects I suppose?
www.filmtools.com sells the ULCS system, it's sort of Lego approach where you buy a bunch of different pieces to create the piece you need for the task you want to accomplish, they are actually made for holding underwater flash systems for still cameras but they are very handy on digital cinema cameras. This setup cost me about $200.00 but I've had it for a few years now and it's still going strong, good stuff. One advantage of using the CN-E 18-80 T4.4 for this same kind of shoot is that the lens is just physically a lot longer so you could position the touchscreen farther forward without worrying about getting the arm or screen into the frame so there is that to think about. I've also discovered that the Hoodman H400 while it doesn't cover every millimeter of the C200's screen, it does make the screen fairly usable in semi-shade, semi-sun, still not great for those nuclear bright days though.
