As someone who ones both, the Smallrig one destorys the Tilta One. The feel of the build materials is not as important since these are meant to be light weight (and used on gimbals). The more secure tray system, flush front thread, and the 95mm openning of the Smallrig mattebox is what makes it simply more versaltile.
I think we're all pretty spoiled as cinematographers with either choice, TBH lol I went with the SmallRig one only because it allows for using screw on variable NDs. That's the only reason. But honestly, you win with either one. Thanks for this update!
for me, i have owned both and i am sticking with the tilta. I like the small rig cause it has a 95 opening for bigger cine lenses, but i just purchased a 5 cine lens set and small rig doesn't sell their screw on filters individually and tilta does for like $7 each, and for a 5 lens set not unscrewing things is a huge time saver. I don't use clip on filters to the front so those mechanics aren't much of an issue to me.
Thanks for this video! Honestly pretty much everything you say draws me to the Smallrig one. I don't usually attach accessories to the top of a matte box and the adapter rings that go to the back not only help with screw-in filters, they also avoid vignetting with wide angle lenses because the front element of the lens gets closer to the matte box.
I dont understand any of your points. You said that you use the smallrig one sometimes because of the adapter ring issue? You could just use the small rig step up ring 87 and clamp the tilta box on that no? Also you find it easier to just slide in the filters? You are doing the same with the small rig one no? You just put it in the tray and you store it WITH THE TRAY , i never seen anybody taking out the filters from the smallrig tray. While i do find the smallrig one flimsy with the locking mechanicsm i actually prefer it since it does not clamp on so hard so if you are bumping into something the mattbox will probably rotate a bit but ypur filter thread that uses the step up ring wont be damaged.
To each their own. I’m not saying the Smallrig one is bad, just giving pros and cons from my perspective. You can’t put the Tilta Matte box onto the Smallrig adapter ring. Smallrig adapter rings are 95mm and tilta opening is smaller at 87mm And yes you can keep filters and store them in the tray. For me I rent my 4x5 filters so it’s required that I remove them and put them back into their filter pouch
In my opinion the difference in size is not nearly the same… if every mm counts it shows how much it can be. But a nice talk about the two boxes…thank a lot!👍
