Wednesday, January 19, 2011

My 5D Rig

Here's a couple of links for brackets:
http://store.zacuto.com/dslr-z-cage.html
http://www.ktekbooms.com/norbert/
http://www.idcphotography.com/kart/index.php?p=product&id=127&parent=31

But before you plop down $870 bucks for one of these take a look at this picture, specifically, the monitor bracket.


I needed a way to mount a monitor, it was the weekend and the shoot was Monday morning.  I went down to Home Depot and bought a couple of framing brackets, bent them in a vice and pop-riveted them together.  I drilled some 1/4-20 holes in it and viola, instant bracket.


Total cost, $8 bucks.  It would have cost me $5 but I bought thin brackets the first time around, thin enough to be bent by hand.  These were too wobbly.  In retrospect, I should have painted it black so it would be super cool.  And I could have gotten a rental on it, too.

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