Cool video. Have used a similar setup, except I hate those tie on focus gears on the lens. Mine always seem to fall off or get jostled 😢. Found a place in Atlanta that makes 3d printed plastic gears for a lot of lenses. A little tight at first with a new lens - as you noted - but a good product. Think it’s called Follow Focus Gears (I’m not affiliated lol). Thanks for putting this together, Michael. Can help a lot of people who want to do more video.
Agreed on the focus gears. I actually stopped using the focus wheel this past year. Hauling a 52 pound pack for 35 days covering 5-10 miles a day and I elected to pull it out of the bag and just used my hands on the lens. Not bad once you get comfortable with controlling vibrations and direction to spin. Thanks for watching and the comment.
Smallrig makes a 15mm rail plate, with an adjustable riser to make that gap. You could then mount it to the wooden camera dovetail 19mm plate, and use 15mm rods to get that battery plate above the tripod, and not lose the clearance with the camera screen, or the ability to slide the dovetail, say with a smaller lens. Either way, fine build. It seems to be part of the fun, trying to find solutions for the problems that each new piece adjoins.
Correction....Ray just responded again with more detail. He said it was closer to 2K. I think you could build it much cheaper using 15mm rods and bridge-plate.
Cool video. Have used a similar setup, except I hate those tie on focus gears on the lens. Mine always seem to fall off or get jostled 😢. Found a place in Atlanta that makes 3d printed plastic gears for a lot of lenses. A little tight at first with a new lens - as you noted - but a good product. Think it’s called Follow Focus Gears (I’m not affiliated lol). Thanks for putting this together, Michael. Can help a lot of people who want to do more video.
Agreed on the focus gears. I actually stopped using the focus wheel this past year. Hauling a 52 pound pack for 35 days covering 5-10 miles a day and I elected to pull it out of the bag and just used my hands on the lens. Not bad once you get comfortable with controlling vibrations and direction to spin. Thanks for watching and the comment.
Smallrig makes a 15mm rail plate, with an adjustable riser to make that gap. You could then mount it to the wooden camera dovetail 19mm plate, and use 15mm rods to get that battery plate above the tripod, and not lose the clearance with the camera screen, or the ability to slide the dovetail, say with a smaller lens.
Either way, fine build. It seems to be part of the fun, trying to find solutions for the problems that each new piece adjoins.
Yeah that's another way to do it, thanks for the insight.
Wow, I never realized you are MacGyver. Nice to know that it’s possible. Say hi to Ray.
It’s unbelievable how many ways you can build a camera rig! Thanks for watching!
Nice. I use sony A7s III so it should work with that. Thanks
It should! Brandon has a rig built out for the Sony's that we could also highlight.
@@TruthLegend that would be great to see that one
Do you have a ballpark price of this build, less the camera body?
I don't but I will ask Ray and see if he remembers what he spent. Thanks for watching!
@@TruthLegend thanks
I asked Ray and he said $800-1000 the most expensive parts were the bridge-plate and titanium rails.
Correction....Ray just responded again with more detail. He said it was closer to 2K. I think you could build it much cheaper using 15mm rods and bridge-plate.
@@TruthLegend thanks so much Michael. Looks like it would be a fun project!