Quote from: ilguercio on October 06, 2012, 02:08:12 PM
I always thought the side handlebars were a bit uncomfortable and in fact you're proving me right on that.
What about a follow focus directly above the left handlebar? This whay you could both hold the rig and focus.
The way I've got mine made means that I'm at the mercy of how long the lense is for the position of that.
As where the focus ring is relative to the base of the camera changes between lenses.
However it isnt much of a big deal since when filming so far I seem to favour using either:
55-250mm lense for zoom, which is impossible to keep steady enough without a tripod
8mm fisheye, which has a massive depth of field which you never really need to adjust.
I think the usual shoulder rig design with two offset bars is designed for maximum stability when you're not fiddling with anything else, or moving toooo much.
Using with an apeture of say F12 or F16 or something and auto iso adjust or iris pull would be fine, but manually adjusting everything while trying to hold it steady is just too hard. 5 different kinds of impossible to use a super narrow depth of field effectively anyway...
Unless you have a second person with a field monitor and a follow focus or something, but then it's getting a bit complicated again.
Hoganmw, do you ever use yours detached from the tripod?