harryharry
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I have been looking for a light and compact rig for some time. I did not want a shoulder rig. For me a shoulder rig is too heavy and takes too much time to set up. What I wanted was a rig I simply could put into the camera bag without removing anything. I also wanted a horizontal hand position instead of a vertical with a more correct balance point.
I made a small frame of aluminum and a hand grip of wood and painted all black. The top handle is connected to a flash shoe and can be removed to use a light or a monitor instead. The shock mount is from K-Tec.
I use a Marantz PDM661 (with Oade Brothers super mod) and a AKG CK93 hyper cardioids mic. The wireless receiver is a Sennheiser G2. To change the battery of the receiver I have to remove the lens. This setup works with the 20mm pancake but not the 14mm pancake lens.
I also made an attenuator to feed the camera. This is a 55 dB L- Pad. It consists of one 100Ohm resistor in series and a 56kOhm in parallel. I have not tested this enough to tell how well it works. The levels on the PDM661 and the camera match more or less.
I made a small frame of aluminum and a hand grip of wood and painted all black. The top handle is connected to a flash shoe and can be removed to use a light or a monitor instead. The shock mount is from K-Tec.
I use a Marantz PDM661 (with Oade Brothers super mod) and a AKG CK93 hyper cardioids mic. The wireless receiver is a Sennheiser G2. To change the battery of the receiver I have to remove the lens. This setup works with the 20mm pancake but not the 14mm pancake lens.
I also made an attenuator to feed the camera. This is a 55 dB L- Pad. It consists of one 100Ohm resistor in series and a 56kOhm in parallel. I have not tested this enough to tell how well it works. The levels on the PDM661 and the camera match more or less.
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