Comprehensive Guide to Rigging ANY Camera

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

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. I welcome all 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. 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

http://wolfcrow.com - Workflow information and support for filmmakers, photographers, audiographers and videographers.

 

[John Swift]

There are several links that dont take you to the right page.

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Thanks for looking, John.

Do you mean the links on this post or the links on the 'menu-in-progress'? Can you give me a few examples, and I'll look into it right away.

If it's the latter, please visit the main blog menu under Rigging Guide for the full list. Thanks again.

 

[John Swift]

Its the links to the next page on many of them, I'll post a few examples when im next on the computer

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Yes, you're right. Unfortunately I have to hard code them so it'll always be behind until the guide is fully complete. Thanks again.

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

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]

I've put together a scenario to rig the Red Epic on a 5 man documentary shoot: http://wolfcrow.com/blog/comprehensive-guide-to-rigging-any-camera-15-laying-out-the-rig-part-3/

This includes selecting gear and assembling it for a perfectly balanced rig.

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Final update: The guide is now complete! The new home page for the menu is: http://wolfcrow.com/blog/comprehensive-guide-to-rigging-any-camera-main-menu/

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

 

[AndreasOberg]

Wow. Bravo. You have spent an enormous amount of work on this. I subscribed but didn't get an email yet, still waiting.
A very good read.

/Andreas

 

[Matt Ryan]

I subscribed and didn't receive an email as well. Thanks for putting this together.

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Thank you, Andreas! Thank you, Matt!

Sorry about your experiences. I request you to try one more time. if you don't get an email still, please mail me your details at director@theindiefarm.com. I'll take care of it.

Thank you for taking the time out to tell me.

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

I subscribed and didn't receive an email as well. Thanks for putting this together.

Matt, you are subscribed, and you should have received the follow up email by now. Please check your junk folder to be sure. Thanks.

 

[Matt Ryan]

Matt, you are subscribed, and you should have received the follow up email by now. Please check your junk folder to be sure. Thanks.

yup, just got it an hour ago. Thanks

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Looks like Andreas is okay as well...

Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[AndreasOberg]

Looks like Andreas is okay as well...

Happy New Year, everyone!

Yes, I got it the day after. Spent an evening just reading. A LOT of good information. If you like I could forward some comments, I had a few other perspectives on some areas.

Fantastic!
/Andreas

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Yes, I got it the day after. Spent an evening just reading. A LOT of good information. If you like I could forward some comments, I had a few other perspectives on some areas.

Fantastic!
/Andreas

I'd love to hear your thoughts, Andreas. If you wish to communicate directly, you can reply to my newsletter or mail me at director at theindiefarm dot com.

Thanks for reading!

 

[AndreasOberg]

I will be sure to do so Sareesh.
I'm a bit pressed before going to our Jungle documentary but after I should have much more to say.
Best wishes,
Andreas

 

[Thomas Pierrepont]

Thanks for this. I just sub'd to your newsletter and reading through your guide now.

 

[adrian vedder]

I haven't started to read it but I absolutely look forward to it. I've been looking for something like this for a couple of weeks now and BAM! as usual, reduser.net has all the cool stuff.
Thanks man!

 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Thank you, Thomas and Adrian! Hope it helps.