C200: Show us your setup!

johnniebutters

johnniebutters

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Curious to see everyones setup whether you are run and gun or have a nice tripod setup. Here's my tripod setup when it's not on the Ronin M.


Canon C200 Rig by Johnnie Butters, on Flickr

Canon EOS C200B
Small Rig Top Plate | Handle
Movi V Plate | Juicebox V Mount
Sigma 50-100mm f1.8 ART
Saramonic Wireless Lav
Atomos Ninja Flame
Sennheiser MKE 600
Neewer Follow Focus
 
Here is my absurd Rube Goldberg-ish handheld live streaming setup I used for an event. It's not pretty, but it worked. Teradek Cube with 3 cellular connections - Nighthawk Router, USB Modem and MiFi in my pocket. Didn't drop a frame.

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Fishflavour said:
johnniebutters, is the atomos for monitoring or recording? if recording, what format? 4k out is only 8 bit, right?
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I always shoot raw, never MP4 so the Monitor is used for the HDR feature and Brightness outdoors (Chews up batteries though). I've done recording with the Atomos before but you have to turn off all the overlays on the C200 for it to work. HDMI is not clean like the SDI.
 
C200 rigged for green screen talking heads. My most common use for clients. Recording to my good old Ninja Blade in 10-bit 4:2:2 in 1080. Few of our clients want 4K these days.

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This is a pretty basic setup. I have a 77mm-114mm Bright Tangerine filter step up ring so I can use ARRI LMBs from my work. I also added another cold shoe so that I could top mount both of my wireless receivers. I just got a grip relocation cable but I haven't had a chance to throw it on a hand held rig as they've been rented out for SXSW stuff already.

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Here's my rig. I actually usually never build up this much, but wanted to test out the new Sachtler AceXL I picked up last week.

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KinostadtFilms said:
How did the Ace XL handle with that large of a build?
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Sticks hold north of 20lbs, and are as solid as you'd like despite how compact they are. Once balanced, there's enough friction to make smooth moves even with that much weight. The only issue is the counterweight isn't strong enough to actually stop this large a build if you're tilting without locking the vertical. When I strip down just a little, it's enough even with a heavy lens and a mattebox. I don't think that's a knock on the head though; I haven't actually weighed this setup, but I'd bet it's heavier than the head is rated for. Counterweight works fantastically when I use a standard baseplate instead of a full shoulder rig and heavy VCT-14 plate.

So I'd say it's handling it well; but if this was your standard build, you'd probably want to go with a larger head and maybe one with a 100mm bowl.
 
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Remember that your tripod's counterweight rating is based on an optimum camera height as well - putting that chunky VCT plate underneath the already-tall C-series cameras means the tripods counterweight rating will effectively be even less than the 17lbs specified.
 
Here's a pic of my C200B Ronin-M set up w/ Wooden Camera grip extension cable & Small HD P-Tap battery adapter for my 702 Bright to keep things as light as possible. I've also got the Wooden Camera Gimbal ARRI Rosette (25mm, 1 inch) to relocate the camera grip. Outside of having an EasyRig w/ a Serene Arm and/or Puppeteer (which would be the ultimate), this really feels like the perfect gimbal rig cross section of quality/price/usability:
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Here's my low profile Run 'n' Gun C200 set up w/ Zacuto Enforcer that I took apart and re-assembled backwards to fit better for how I like to shoot with it. This is my default set-up when I'm just shooting B-Roll:
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deltoidjohn said:
Remember that your tripod's counterweight rating is based on an optimum camera height as well - putting that chunky VCT plate underneath the already-tall C-series cameras means the tripods counterweight rating will effectively be even less than the 17lbs specified.
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Something I hadn’t considered and totally true. That probably has a lot to do with why it works well when I use a regular baseplate that isn’t nearly as tall.
 
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chris f said:
Here's my low profile Run 'n' Gun C200 set up w/ Zacuto Enforcer that I took apart and re-assembled backwards to fit better for how I like to shoot with it. This is my default set-up when I'm just shooting B-Roll:
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Interesting. I've never been able to go with a full shoulder mount. The thing I would worry about with this setup is that it would limit you to shooting eye-level the entire time. What's your feeling about the stability vs. flexibility balance?
 
brettsherman said:
Interesting. I've never been able to go with a full shoulder mount. The thing I would worry about with this setup is that it would limit you to shooting eye-level the entire time. What's your feeling about the stability vs. flexibility balance?
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I guess my body is still pretty flexible, ha. To me this set up is way more flexible than shoulder mount. If I need to get lower I can always squat down or bring the camera down and shoot from the hip while looking at the LCD screen. It's also much easier to do things like get in and out of cars, climb up on things, etc. And when I'm not shooting it's still small/lightweight enough were I can just hold the rig by the gun stock mount down at my side.

Personally I feel I need it. Maybe I have shakey hands/arms, but anytime I shoot completely hand-held I'm never happy with how the footage feels. Also, with this particular set up and i can walk while shooting and it's super smooth, little-to-no walking bumps. I also only use lenses with image stabilization in this configuration.
 
Here is my fairly simple gimbal setup (kinda cheating the thread because it is a C300 Mark II).

Mounted inverted mode on a Movi M15 with shortened carbon rails from Smallrig (for easy storage in a case).

Camera has the Canon 11-24mm, a Canon BP-A60 battery, SmallHD Focus monitor attached to the Movi, and a VariZoom VZ-ROCK-C100 for LANC control of iris, focus, and record.

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