Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:28 pm
Rick.. yes.. oddly enough this is what I was originally thinking.. some sort of backpack/fannypack solution that held the vmount, and d-tap to the camera DC input or dummy battery. However.. I am a bit worried how to manage this on a steadicam.. or even a gimbal. It seems like it would be really clumsy at best to have a cord dangling down the stem of the steadicam and then over to my hip. That is if I can find one that is 5 feet or so in length as well. It says it can handle up to 15lbs.. I was trying to figure out if there was a smaller battery system that could be used with the cam on the Steadicam to power it for a couple hours. I mentioned before the CORE 49WH edge or something, which mounts below the camera. But that still seems kind of big. I was thinking there would be one of those phone/usb recharger batteries that puts out enough power to power this (with the USB-C drive recording), and possibly a monitor as well. I could also see if there is a way to mount the vmount battery as part of the weights on the bottom of the steadicam. I know some of the more expensive $10K+ rigs used with vests/belts have things like this where the monitor and battery is at the bottom used as part of the weight setup. There is a vest/arm system for like $400 for the Steadicam RedKing as well that looked promising. Dont really want to spend much.. but if that + my current vmount setup would work, would rather spend the money on that than yet another battery.
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