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Peter C. said:
Didn't people use those lcd loupes for c100? Zacuto and other brands make those loupe for many other cameras. I find the view finder only useful in bright sun light even then an Atomos with a hood is pretty good.
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Back in the nascent 5DMKII days of 2009/10 I fashioned a viewfinder system out of a loupe and coroplast over a Marshall monitor. At NAB that year I took a much cleaned up version of my DSLR setup to NAB and had it on demo in a booth, I can't remember whose now. I showed it to the SmallHD guys, and they were intrigued. Later that year they sent me an early version of the the DP4 with integrated loupe (still have it, poor old thing), and Zacuto got into that game around that time. One can never really claim to have invented something unless you know for sure nobody else did it first. But I know I influenced at least one company into the fray!

Below is a music video, Mar. 2010. This was after a few tough days of shooting and things had fallen apart on my rig and needed a lot of jerry-rigging. I cannot tell you what is going on inside all that red tape and velcro, it's a bizarre mess, but I can definitively say that rig got a lot of improvements over the next few months.
 

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CharlesPapert said:
Back in the nascent 5DMKII days of 2009/10 I fashioned a viewfinder system out of a loupe and coroplast over a Marshall monitor. At NAB that year I took a much cleaned up version of my DSLR setup to NAB and had it on demo in a booth, I can't remember whose now. I showed it to the SmallHD guys, and they were intrigued. Later that year they sent me an early version of the the DP4 with integrated loupe (still have it, poor old thing), and Zacuto got into that game around that time. One can never really claim to have invented something unless you know for sure nobody else did it first. But I know I influenced at least one company into the fray!

Below is a music video, Mar. 2010. This was after a few tough days of shooting and things had fallen apart on my rig and needed a lot of jerry-rigging. I cannot tell you what is going on inside all that red tape and velcro, it's a bizarre mess, but I can definitively say that rig got a lot of improvements over the next few months.
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That photo is an amazing reminder of how good we have it nowadays when it comes to gear/rigging. 😅
 
DustinSchmidt said:
That photo is an amazing reminder of how good we have it nowadays when it comes to gear/rigging. 😅
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Just one year later I had this system much more refined, via a custom baseplate. I was working on a next gen version with cable management through the bottom and other fancy things, but I started booking more legit work with "real" cameras. I had lots of conversations with 3rd party vendors about creating a signature line for high-end DSLR shooting though, it was an interesting time!
 

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CharlesPapert said:
Just one year later I had this system much more refined, via a custom baseplate. I was working on a next gen version with cable management through the bottom and other fancy things, but I started booking more legit work with "real" cameras. I had lots of conversations with 3rd party vendors about creating a signature line for high-end DSLR shooting though, it was an interesting time!
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Henceforth, you will be known as Charles "MacGyver" Papert. That was a very forward-thinking piece of kit, Mr. C

Chris Young
 
cyvideo said:
Henceforth, you will be known as Charles "MacGyver" Papert. That was a very forward-thinking piece of kit, Mr. C

Chris Young
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I really should aggregate all the little things I came up with over the years and only made one-offs, and subsequently saw similar versions come to market. At least I got the ZeeGee out there (eventually). My early days working with an ancient Steadicam was what got me into designing custom parts--that rig was covered with unanodized aluminum by the end!
 
CharlesPapert said:
I really should aggregate all the little things I came up with over the years and only made one-offs, and subsequently saw similar versions come to market. At least I got the ZeeGee out there (eventually). My early days working with an ancient Steadicam was what got me into designing custom parts--that rig was covered with unanodized aluminum by the end!
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I did create a couple of "one offs" that I built for particular jobs in the past. Years before EasyRig became a thing, I build a crude but quite workable rig out of a fiberglass archer's long bow. Then years ago I build a stabilization rig for a three-week shoot on the Australian Navy's three masted training tall ship. When that ship was tacking hard, it was almost impossible on the narrow walkways on deck or down below to be able to hold a camera really steady when the ship heeled and thumped from one side to the other. Using a cut down mountain bike handle bar and road bike handlebar extensions and some rather unusual octopus cords that had adjustable clips on them, I was able to fashion a stabilized rig that still to this day comes very close to a gimbal's performance but with more camera movement capability. It was also very robust. Totally unaffected by the constant waves crashing across the decks that soaked everything in sight. It didn't need weather protection, unlike us and the camera gear.

Likewise, it could also take a whack without throwing the camera stability out of kilter, something I have experienced with electronic gimbals when they have been bumped hard while rolling. Quite a few cameramen who borrowed that rig, then built their own after seeing the results from it. That rig I still have on a shelf somewhere.

Loved the challenges of overcoming tricky shoot requirements. That was always half the fun. :D

Chris Young
 
cyvideo said:
I did create a couple of "one offs" that I built for particular jobs in the past. Years before EasyRig became a thing, I build a crude but quite workable rig out of a fiberglass archer's long bow. Then years ago I build a stabilization rig for a three-week shoot on the Australian Navy's three masted training tall ship. When that ship was tacking hard, it was almost impossible on the narrow walkways on deck or down below to be able to hold a camera really steady when the ship heeled and thumped from one side to the other. Using a cut down mountain bike handle bar and road bike handlebar extensions and some rather unusual octopus cords that had adjustable clips on them, I was able to fashion a stabilized rig that still to this day comes very close to a gimbal's performance but with more camera movement capability. It was also very robust. Totally unaffected by the constant waves crashing across the decks that soaked everything in sight. It didn't need weather protection, unlike us and the camera gear.

Likewise, it could also take a whack without throwing the camera stability out of kilter, something I have experienced with electronic gimbals when they have been bumped hard while rolling. Quite a few cameramen who borrowed that rig, then built their own after seeing the results from it. That rig I still have on a shelf somewhere.

Loved the challenges of overcoming tricky shoot requirements. That was always half the fun. :D

Chris Young
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That sounds like a cool setup! Can you post a pic, or is it hush hush?
 
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