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I kind of need a brick to counterbalance the shoulder setup if I have the body over my shoulder a lens, EVF Mattebox and FF infront i need some weight in the back. Also I find that you need a certain amount of "heft" to be stable handheld.
 
icarusfilm said:
I kind of need a brick to counterbalance the shoulder setup if I have the body over my shoulder a lens, EVF Mattebox and FF infront i need some weight in the back. Also I find that you need a certain amount of "heft" to be stable handheld.
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i'm thinking of getting Wooden Camera's top plate/battery pinch to replace my Tilta.

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NorBro said:
Not sure how and why you would come up with that assumption from one picture.

It's very common to have a shotgun microphone on a camera for normal everyday grinding scratch.

Audio can be and usually is recorded by other people.
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I've never seen it. People just use the internal mic on the camera. Of course I'm not around high-end cameras. Even the docs I've worked on have lavs or are boomed.
 
I have seen a shotgun mic on a camera several times. It's a great way to capture not only scratch sound, but also crispy perfectly usable sound effects that the sound team might not have to come back to record.
 
Switching from the AF101 - I'll probably get some Sigma ART lenses for the EVA1
can anyone recommend optical filters to add that will get me closer to that lovely Voigtlander 25mm look I've become accustomed to with the AF101?
 
Why not just get the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f/1.4 SL II S Lens in a Nikon F mount and add a good EF adapter to the lens. This should get you the Vpoght Noct. look with a slightly longer FOV look. Also the 40mm Voight,Anderson Bessy should get the same FOV as the 25mm on the AF100. Both a very nice lenses.
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Mitch Gross said:
I talked with a battery manufacturer today, and it looks like a solution will make it to market. Not yet ready to announce, but I think it will happen. We're talking a 7.2v battery that mounts in the camera to power it that also has a 12v regulated P-Tap socket for powering small items such as a viewfinder or Teradek, or maybe a recorder like an Odyssey or Shogun (but not all the above -- that's too much juice). More soon.
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The 7Q is the only one of those that may require regulated 12v, right? And only to allow higher brightness modes? Or am I wrong? They already have panasonic batteries with alternate outputs, but perhaps they will be obstructed by the walls of the battery compartment? I have a couple swits sitting around that have this.
 
nyvz said:
The 7Q is the only one of those that may require regulated 12v, right? And only to allow higher brightness modes? Or am I wrong? They already have panasonic batteries with alternate outputs, but perhaps they will be obstructed by the walls of the battery compartment? I have a couple swits sitting around that have this.
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The Odyssey7Q+ accepts a huge voltage range, something like 6.5v-35v (I think that's correct -- how quickly one forgets when not dealing with it all the time). But there are other devices such as monitors, viewfinders, video transmitters, etc., that need a higher minimum voltage and may not be able to accept a particularly high upper voltage. 10.5v-14.5v is common, and a typical V-mount or AB-mount brick that's rated at 14.4v will usually start off greater than 16v fresh off the charger. In this case we're concerned with the minimum voltage, as devices such as the Zacuto Gratical Eye need something around 12v to operate. The SWIT batteries of which I'm aware are 7.2v with a 7.2v output, which is too low to run the viewfinder. Is it possible that you are thinking of some variants of a Sony U-series battery, which is a 14.4v system instead of a 7.2v one?

The other value of a regulated 12v output is that it will maintain that voltage over the course of full to empty. An unregulated output from a 14.4v brick may start above 16v and slowly drop to 10.5v or lower before the battery dies. No fun having the power gauge in the 7.2v camera read 25% remaining but the accessory viewfinder dies in the middle of a take because the power feed was unregulated.
 
Mitch Gross said:
The Odyssey7Q+ accepts a huge voltage range, something like 6.5v-35v (I think that's correct -- how quickly one forgets when not dealing with it all the time). But there are other devices such as monitors, viewfinders, video transmitters, etc., that need a higher minimum voltage and may not be able to accept a particularly high upper voltage. 10.5v-14.5v is common, and a typical V-mount or AB-mount brick that's rated at 14.4v will usually start off greater than 16v fresh off the charger. In this case we're concerned with the minimum voltage, as devices such as the Zacuto Gratical Eye need something around 12v to operate. The SWIT batteries of which I'm aware are 7.2v with a 7.2v output, which is too low to run the viewfinder. Is it possible that you are thinking of some variants of a Sony U-series battery, which is a 14.4v system instead of a 7.2v one?

The other value of a regulated 12v output is that it will maintain that voltage over the course of full to empty. An unregulated output from a 14.4v brick may start above 16v and slowly drop to 10.5v or lower before the battery dies. No fun having the power gauge in the 7.2v camera read 25% remaining but the accessory viewfinder dies in the middle of a take because the power feed was unregulated.
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What I was getting at was that I recall the 7Q can take 7.2V but would only work in LOW brightness mode at that voltage for example. Yes certainly 12V regulated would be needed for accessories that take that and won't take 7.2v unregulated. I guess I'm used to most low power accessories taking a pretty broad input voltage range like my 7Q, cineroid retina, teradek clip which all take 6-18V or more. I seem to rarely run into devices only expect unregulated 4S Li-ion battery power (11~16.8V).
 
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The thread is strangely quiet. I guesstimated 300 posts before the EVA-1 release. Perhaps I should release some fake footage from a video security system posing as EVA-1? Or has everyone moved over to the Sony Venice?
 
Carl at ProAV is shooting a new EVA1, C200, FS7, Varicam LT comparison video. I hope he releases his original review with EVA1 clips intact soon as well.
 
nyvz said:
What I was getting at was that I recall the 7Q can take 7.2V but would only work in LOW brightness mode at that voltage for example. Yes certainly 12V regulated would be needed for accessories that take that and won't take 7.2v unregulated. I guess I'm used to most low power accessories taking a pretty broad input voltage range like my 7Q, cineroid retina, teradek clip which all take 6-18V or more. I seem to rarely run into devices only expect unregulated 4S Li-ion battery power (11~16.8V).
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Got it, but my point was that there are a number of devices that will not run off the 7.2v power that the EVA1 does, which is why a higher voltage battery can be useful. Case in point: the Zacuto Gratical Eye viewfinder, which requires 12-16.8v power to operate.
 
Word in from the factory in Japan. First shipments out the door! These things take a few days to get across the Pacific and through import, into distribution and then to resellers, but look for EVA1s to begin turning up around the end of the week or shortly into next week.

Release the Kraken!
 
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