Zacuto Mini Baseplate review...

Good read. I'm considering buying either the Zacuto Mini Baseplate or the Genus Advanced Adaptor Bars. Do you happen to have experience with the latter in comparison to the Zacuto?

With the Genus I like the idea of the sliding backplate, so I can adjust the distance of the camera in relation to the mattebox depending on the length of the used lens (normal sized or tele lens). Would you say the Zacuto is as easy to adjust?
 
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Richard Wilis said:
Good read. I'm considering buying either the Zacuto Mini Baseplate or the Genus Advanced Adaptor Bars. Do you happen to have experience with the latter in comparison to the Zacuto?

With the Genus I like the idea of the sliding backplate, so I can adjust the distance of the camera in relation to the mattebox depending on the length of the used lens (normal sized or tele lens). Would you say the Zacuto is as easy to adjust?
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The Mini Baseplate is definitely easy to adjust, but the "faceplate" only moves side to side, not back and forth like the Genus Advanced Adaptor Bars System.

When I need to balance a rig, I'll either use the quick release plate from my tripod's fluid head, or the VCT-14 Quick Release Plate and TLS VCT-14 Adapter Plate, which allows me to get the camera quite far back, or forward, depending on what's required.

If you want more adjustability than the Mini Baseplate has to offer, you could always check out the UB3. It has its limitations when used with a DSLR and loupe, as mentioned in my review, but it's still an awesome piece of equipment.
 
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Having seen the rigs from Cinevate, Redrock, Genus, and Zacuto... I feel that each has it's own strength. I don't know many situations when you'd want to horizontally slide the camera forward and back... that's what you have rails for!

Being that I own a universal baseplate from Zacuto... I obviously must recommend that and their mini-baseplate which's design process I got to participate in. Redrock has a stellar new quick-release mechanism that I'm in love with... it's extremely simplistic and seems rock solid. I don't own much from Cinevate... but I will say their approach to cages seems interesting... I can see their use on longer rigs... and imagine the added stability (fig-rig-like) when shooting with DSLRs. However, Cinevate does have some new stuff coming out soon. Genus's plate wasn't rock solid when I played with it at WEVA... but... it was a pre-production model!

Food for thought,
Stunzi
 
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