New Accessory Plate for AF100

Cinesota

Cinesota

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UPDATE: After a few months delay I received a prototype accessory plate (aka a "cheese plate" or Berkey plate) from Brian Berkey. He actually finished it a month ago but due to a minor disaster with my house, NAB, and back to back shoots I just got around to mounting it and taking some quick pics in my office. He hand milled it. The fit and finish is perfect. A real feat given we did this whole thing long distance. He said if there was enough demand he would be willing to do a run. Please note the mix of 1/4-20 and 3/8-16 holes were just picked at random so if you would rather see a different hole pattern let him or I know. Otherwise what you see on my camera would be more or less what the final item will look like. I will try to get some better pics later and maybe put up a video. I plan on installing a couple of these at first: http://woodencamera.com/hot-shoe to side mount a pair of Sennheiser G3 receivers, but you could mount just about anything to the plate. It is VERY solid. Screws on/off so if you want to remount the factory handgrip it can be done in about 5 minutes. Let me know if you got any questions. You can also reach Brian directly at BerkeySystem.com

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I've been using one of Brian's Accessory Mounting Blocks bolted into one of those empty handle holes. Great way to attach a Zacuto arm for a monitor

And if you're looking to add a small cheese plate on the top of the handle, I've been using Wooden Camera's Easy Stick with much success. Bolts into the two 1/4-20's and adds about 50 more.

http://woodencamera.com/easy-stick
 
Brian mentioned something about working with somebody on accessories for the AF100 but his version was the guy met a girl, moved up north to never be heard from again. Was that you? :-)
 
I moved 30 min north of the cities. I emailed him a few times since with no response. I still have some of his parts I need to get back to him, so if you talk to him, tell him to call me.
 
I'll let him know. I think he was mostly joking. How far did you get? No sense reinventing the wheel. Sounded like it was more of a top plate design ala the FS100 than a side plate.
 
We talked about a side plate and it was the next thing we were going to work on. I wanted a place to mount a small handle out the front of it. We came up with a alpha top plate that I still have in my possession. It added a bunch of mounting hole as well as a way to mount and EVF off the side. It's a good idea, but I strongly suggested to him a actual top handle replacement would work a lot better than a plate. We never meet again after that to revise the alpha prototype.
 
Spoke with Brian on Friday. He said he's going to contact you to follow up. He sent me a link to a video of the rig you guys came up with. I doubt we will see that going in to production. Dealing with the top handle and mounting something topside on the AF100 is problematic. He is moving on to Epic/Scarlet stuff and doing a good business in FS100/F3 plates. I sense that if he takes this project on, it's best to keep it simple. A side plate is pretty straightforward and easy enough to build/design. Panasonic designed the camera to mount things there. He said he was going to take a look at an AF100 body to get some measurements and get back to me. Sounds like he is pretty busy these days, so I wouldn't expect anything too soon. He thinks it's doable but finding the time to do it will be the question. I sent Brian a link to this thread so he may check in from time to time.
 
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