Do you think this rig could be functional without the 3d print attachment? I dont have access to anything like that where I live at. Im thinking this could work for my fx30 until your new batch of designs release.
This is way more affordable than the Cineback, which in Australia is $450! My question is: what does this do better than the usual rig with a cage and rails only? If the goal is to mount added accessories, what are they? A monitor, side and top handle, and v-mount all work without the extra cheese plate housings. Plus, it's way more fuss to remove the camera from the rig if I want to change to a gimbal or run it without all the accessories like for travel or quick shots.
Not to diss Samuel as I respect his build a lot more than the cashgrab that cineback is BUT --- That's what's been driving me crazy. This is just a youtuber fad that puts aesthetics before functionality. The "cineback" setup is absolutely worse than the standard cinema rig for the FX3. You are quite literally adding useless weight, locking your camera between two cheeseplates and bolting it into the rig, you gain *nothing* other than a bunch of mounting points which you never needed with the normal cinema setup and blocking the audio handle contact. Heck, most of the cheese plate is blocked by the handle so there isn't even a point to most those mounting points.
This is just one of the option. everyone set up and need are different. what work for you might not work for others. What good about this is it's reversible, and the extra weight actually help with stabilization when film handheld. But I have to agree with you the real downside is you unable to use the audio handle, other than that I love this set up.
I'm glad I found your video! I had seen Caleb's video and was breaking my head to find a matching cheese plate that goes to the back of this setup. Good to see that the original parts Caleb presented also work in the conversion for the FX3! I need to find a way to bury a Zoom f3 though 😄
Using the two smallrig cheese plates and their v mount plate you can connect all three without the use of the little plates in between so it's even cleaner. I've been meaning to share my rig which was also inspired my Caleb.
This is really a question of internal NDs. This essentially turns the FX3 into an FX6 so do you want an FX6 with internal NDs or this rig that you can strip down if you want a smaller camera?
Does the dummy battery still work with the fx3 ver 4.0? I saw on smallrigs website and it says it is incompatible? Is the "incompatibility" just not showing the battery percentage? Anyone have answers to this?
Great video I actually think im going to end up using a similar setup. Question - if you don't have a 3D printer accessible, since you had to customize that particular piece yourself, if there a part that you might be able to point me in the direction of to purchase if I dont have a 3D printer?
The only way that I can think of is to buy the physical kits that he sells on the website and cut the panel in half. That's might not be the most efficient way lol but I don't think there's anything in the market that's similar to what he made.
I used to rig my cam but i dont enjoy it. In the end you still don't get the ergonomic buttons fx6 gives you. The cam body is still too small for fast operation and the rig gets in the way. I'm using fx6 as A cam and the naked fx3 is purely for gimbal.
I love FX6. It's such a great camera; hopefully, they bring some of those features to FX3 Mark 2. I rigged this camera so that I could use it for a certain shoot. The weight does help stabilize when shooting handheld. The good thing about this is I can always strip it down and have a small compact cinema camera
I have the 50w one and it powers my portkeys pt6 monitor with intermittent charging of the camera battery -- I get about 4 hours so I swap the battery at half day of a wedding. I use the 50w to keep the weight down. I would think using the 99, you could go at least 8 hours for monitor and trickle charging battery ( I use usbc rather than dummy battery for redundancy)
I think if we take aways the base plate and v mount battery it could work, but then there is not point of building this rig if we gonna do that lol. My whole purpose of this rig is to have a heavy setup so it can help stabilize when shooting handheld.
the good thing about this set up is it not permanent. You can strip it down and have a compact camera comparing to FX6 you will stuck with a bigger body. with that said, I think FX6 is a great camera, and I might be getting on in the future.
I totally get that it's fun to build out kits but I'm confused, this kit all together costs more than an FX6, except with this rig you have no builtin VNDs, no proper XLR audio, and it still lacks the button layout of a true box camera. I bought my FX6 for $4800 used on Ebay, full kit. An average FX3 build , after you buy every single part, including cables, mounts, adapters, etc, costs about $5200, AT THE LOW END. That's WITHOUT a proper XLR audio or VND solution. Also an FX6 won't have cable management issues. I love the build though, I just wish it was less expensive, that way it could be justified! I added up even all the kit components in this video and it came to nearly $5000 in total, and like I already addressed, no built-in VNDs, or XLR audio.
That's the only downside of this cage (I forgot to mention) but if you want to run a normal audio, there's a cold shoe mount on the left side of the cage.
perfect? seems more like a big obstacle I think the only advantage of the fx3 over other cameras in the cine line is its versatility, but by mounting all that on it, it loses its biggest advantage.
You can mount Rode NTG to the cold shoe mount on the left side of the cage. The only downside about this rig that I forgot to mention is that we're unable to take advantage of the audio handle that came with the camera.
