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Sareesh Sudhakaran November 16th, 2012 08:28 AM

Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
After publishing the Master Guide to Rigging a Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera and the Master Guide to Rigging a Nikon D800 or D800E, I thought it might be a good idea to put together a bigger guide that covers more cameras and situations.

How big? Only about 300 pages for so.

This comprehensive guide outlines a road map on how to plan, assemble and build your own personal camera rig. The camera systems covered in this guide:
  • Panasonic GH2/GH3
  • Nikon D4/D800E/D800/D600
  • Canon 1DX/5D/6D/7D/60D/650D/600D/550D
  • Sony A99
  • Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF/MTF
  • Sony FS100/FS700/F3
  • Canon C100/C300
  • Red Scarlet/Epic
  • Arri Alexa
  • Sony F65
It is probably highly ambitious and overreaching, but is there anyone in this forum whose dream isn't? I present it to you, warts and all. Take what you will.

If you find errors and omissions (which I guarantee it has, being such a large body of work), please bring it to my attention. With your support it will become a more accurate and useful guide, and it can only improve with feedback.

A new chapter is being published everyday, and as of this post we're one-thirds in. It will hopefully be complete by mid-December, after which it will be available as a free ebook. Please use the main blog menu to navigate to new chapters, since I'll only update the menu and navigation links once it's fully complete.

I hope you'll find it useful. Here it is:

Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera

Trevor Dennis November 24th, 2012 12:22 AM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
Hey good post. Not sure why, but don't normally read this particular forum on dvinfo, and could so easily have missed this.

Sareesh Sudhakaran November 24th, 2012 08:34 AM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
Thanks, Trevor! I would appreciate any feedback on making it better.

Terry Wall November 24th, 2012 12:38 PM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
Hey, Sareesh, that's one incredible piece of work!! I just watched the clip of the Zacuto EVF system(s) and was really jazzed at how my GH2 can be rigged! Thanks for a marvelous effort...I've bookmarked the "Guide!!"

Cheers!
~TRW

P.S. Like Trevor, I don't normally browse this category on the forum...I'm glad I did today!

Sareesh Sudhakaran November 24th, 2012 09:27 PM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
Thank you, Terry!

Sareesh Sudhakaran November 29th, 2012 08:39 PM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
An update: The guide is now half-way through. The first half dealt with finding gear. The second will focus on putting them together.

Sareesh Sudhakaran December 21st, 2012 09:54 PM

Re: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera
 
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Final update: The guide is now complete! The new home page for the menu is: Comprehensive Guide to Rigging Any Camera - Main Menu | wolfcrow

The guide is available as a Free 600 page ebook to subscribers. Hope it helps!


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