New 700 rig pics
- Thread starter tazzaria
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One thing (maybe the only thing) you are missing that i found to be critical is support underneath the lens adpt... it's a fail point waiting to get twisted out of allingment by the torque of the FF, the lens support you have will not address this weakness, chk out the Westside baseplate i'm useing.. it also keeps the center of gravity a fair bit lower with the shoulderpad flat against the body, and deck/batt closer to the optical axis as a resualt.. some road wear on this guy as it was 4 weeks into a 8 week shoot at this point and things are starting to look like they have been used hard (as they had);
I agree with that. The E-mount needs all the help it can get when used with lenses like that. The rest of the setup is super clean - I like the CineLock on the LCD. I designed that part for 16x9 back in 2006.
Is it really front heavy in hand-held position?
kenandrews
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Amazing. Will be posting a few pics of my FS700 rig soon. Would love to see a pic of this rig when its wired for shooting.
paulcurtis
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Thought i'd play for once, here are some shots of our rigs. One is on a ladder dolly which is a lovely piece of kit, although ladders in the US are wider than ladders in the UK (hence a custom run for it until we found some wider UK ladders). You can see the fs700 is on a tilta base rig which has the rods and shoulder pad. It's a good rig, a little heavy, but basically a decent solution. The tilta uses the sony style tripod baseplates, so the quick release is much more robust than SLR solutions and I highly recommend that approach.
Another one is a frankenrig with a 100 on top of a 700, this was an experiment to capture both a wide and close at the same time for some VFX work, we found better ways of rigging later on but it's a technique we used a few times - the two frames are combined in a 2.5D environment in nuke along with a reconstructed virtual environment (there are reasons for this madness).
Finally there's a production still (hence the fancy dutched angle!) of me with a hand held rig, this is the same tilta baseplate as the rig with some handles on the front and a lanparte follow focus in this case. Depending on the lens i would either use this or focus direct off the barrel. It depends how much travel is on the lens. I found that the lenses with less travel are better suited to focusing off the barrel itself - when you add a FF any tiny amount of play would affect the chances of nailing focus and a direct hand on lens approach was more subtle.
hope this is of interested to some
cheers
paul
Another one is a frankenrig with a 100 on top of a 700, this was an experiment to capture both a wide and close at the same time for some VFX work, we found better ways of rigging later on but it's a technique we used a few times - the two frames are combined in a 2.5D environment in nuke along with a reconstructed virtual environment (there are reasons for this madness).
Finally there's a production still (hence the fancy dutched angle!) of me with a hand held rig, this is the same tilta baseplate as the rig with some handles on the front and a lanparte follow focus in this case. Depending on the lens i would either use this or focus direct off the barrel. It depends how much travel is on the lens. I found that the lenses with less travel are better suited to focusing off the barrel itself - when you add a FF any tiny amount of play would affect the chances of nailing focus and a direct hand on lens approach was more subtle.
hope this is of interested to some
cheers
paul
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a few shots from my shoot in Paris and Translvania;
me giveing my Acam the evil eye with the Westside baseplate/rods/rear plate, stock handgrip flipped forward;
Acam on a full steadycam;
And handheld, nothing changes in the rig... flys off the head and onto my shoulder, use the stock handgrip flipped forward for my right hand, and keep the focus ring in my left hand;
Bcam as it was mostly used.. on a pogp stick;
And with the Glidecam vest;
Bcam with the baseplate stripped off, and the Hyperdeck & swit batt velcroed to the side for an overhead shot;
Bcam again, stripped again with the deck velcroed to the side, the actor was talking into a GoPro on the Acam, now i'm shooting the insert;
and sitting on a bag of dried lentels, taped to the dashboard of a taxi, deck and swit batt are in the back seat with the director ;
It's really fast and easy to strip down the camera with the Westside rigs we have, but other than pulling it off completly we never changed it after getting it right in prep
me giveing my Acam the evil eye with the Westside baseplate/rods/rear plate, stock handgrip flipped forward;
Acam on a full steadycam;
And handheld, nothing changes in the rig... flys off the head and onto my shoulder, use the stock handgrip flipped forward for my right hand, and keep the focus ring in my left hand;
Bcam as it was mostly used.. on a pogp stick;
And with the Glidecam vest;
Bcam with the baseplate stripped off, and the Hyperdeck & swit batt velcroed to the side for an overhead shot;
Bcam again, stripped again with the deck velcroed to the side, the actor was talking into a GoPro on the Acam, now i'm shooting the insert;
and sitting on a bag of dried lentels, taped to the dashboard of a taxi, deck and swit batt are in the back seat with the director ;
It's really fast and easy to strip down the camera with the Westside rigs we have, but other than pulling it off completly we never changed it after getting it right in prep
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anatusa
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paulcurtis
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The one from MTF in the UK, i tried to track down the Zacuto but it was not in stock and very expensive. The MTF seemed to hit a sweet spot - i'd tried to find some ebay ones too but again couldn't find anything that worked very well.
cheers
Paul