My Ultimate Canon C70 Rig Setup: Gimbal and Handheld

the Canon C70 is the main camera that I use to shoot my weddings and also social media content for my clients and there's really two ways that I rig up my camera one is going to be on a Gimbal and then two for handheld and for tripod use so let's go over the base of the rig and that's going to be this half cage system right here and that's from small rink it's their Canon C70 handheld kit and the cage itself is really simple to install yourself it comes disassembled and it only takes about a couple screws on the top and on the bottom to put it all together and it comes with this top handle which is really nice because you have a lot of mounting points on the top you have a lot of quarter inch 38 you also have the Ari rosette Mount and you also have a 15 mm Rod mount on the front as well and also what's great about this handle is that it is natal clamp so you can easily attach it and detach it whenever you need to the cage itself also has a bunch of those 1/4 in and 38 and also ra rosette mounts all over the cage over the top and also on the side you get a NATO clamp right here on the railings as well as a couple cold shoe mounts on the right and also on the left side here and it also conveniently comes with a built-in NATO rail on the top so that this top handle can easily slide in or whatever other accessory that you can attach via a NATO rail now there are also grooves on the top of the cage right here so that you can actually Mount the original C70 top handle I just don't like that texture the feel of the top handle so I opt to go with the included top handle that the small rig cage gives you now small rig does make another cage for the C70 it's called the portable kit for the C70 but it only comes with uh two pieces like this so one on top and then one on the bottom and you do get the 1/4 in and 3/8 mounting points but it doesn't come with that side piece like this so it kind of limits the amount of accessories that you're able to attach to the camera you can see a huge difference in signs comparing the portable kit to the handheld kit you get a lot more options and a lot more mounting points on the handheld kit the newer one so once I have the handheld kit in place I can now start on the gimbal rig now when I'm using my gimbal I want the rig to be as light as possible I don't want too much going on for the rig when I'm using it on the gimbal because I get tired super easily especially when I'm shooting long hours on weddings and also for events which means that the most Bare Bones version of my gimbal rig would be just a handheld kit no top handle I would have something like this road wireless mic that would attach to the coldo Mount of the cage and then this would plug directly into the camera and then I would have a lens on the front and that's pretty much it and this is a very very common setup that would run when I'm shooting or shooting events or when I need to operate the gimbal for very long periods of time I even try to keep the batteries as light as possible so these are the bp30 is versus the BP 60s which are much larger uh and they weigh a little bit more however for Bigger Productions or projects that I'm not going to be shooting running gun style I do have two more accessories that I attach to the camera and the first one is going to be the small rake Magic Fizz follow Focus motor whenever I'm on a project where I need to manually focus the lens the small ring Magic Fizz follow Focus motor is really ideal because it's small and is lightweight in order to mount it onto the camera this is the 1550 mm Rod attachment that you can attach to your camera just like that and then this is the included 15 mm Rod that I'm just going to slide into right here and then the follow Focus motor goes right on top like that and then I'm going to use a gear teeth accessory just like this one and attach it to my lens and also as a side note the base plate that I'm using is going to be the small rig DJI RS3 plate it's a very long plate it's an extended plate that I use and I like the extended base plate because it gives you more options to move the camera around and adjust the base plate based on how much weight you're holding on the camera so that it's easier to balance on the gimbal now after I've attached the Magic Fizz follow Focus motor the second necessory that I'm going to attach is a wireless transmission system the wireless transmitter that I'm using is the Holly Land Mars 300 and on the bottom of it I have a monitor mount from small rake attached to the bottom so I can easily mount it to the side of my camera and this is what it looks like after I mounted it off to the side it looks weird because it kind of is weird but I've found that this is the best way to evenly distribute the weight of the whole rig on the Gimbal and I can have an easier time balancing it on the Gimbal and this setup here is going to be for projects where I'm not shooting weddings or events where I have to shoot a running gun style because this definitely adds to the weight of the overall rig which I don't want to add any more weight when I'm shooting a running gun style where I have to hold the gimbal continuously over longer periods of time now when I am using the follow Focus motor that means I would have some someone helping me pull focus on this hand grip right here but if I don't have any help and I have to pull Focus myself I'll actually detach one of the handles on my Gimbal and replace it with the hand grip for the follow Focus it's definitely a lot harder to pull focus and operate the gimbal at the same time so I really try not to use manual focus if I'm shooting by myself one tip that I have for you guys is to make sure to not have any accessories on top of your camera when you're attaching it to the gimbal because you need to make sure that it clears the backside of this roll axis in order to balance it properly and also to make sure that things aren't getting in the way if you're doing a low angle shot now one thing you might ask is why I didn't attach the wireless transmitter to the handles itself or off of the camera and onto the gimbal itself and the main reason for that is that I don't like having too many wires hanging off of the gimbal itself hanging off the camera because I find that it gets caught when I'm moving around the gimbal if I'm panning around it sometimes gets caught on like whatever hooks that it can find itself getting caught onto and in the past it's happened quite a few times so now I just try and keep everything as comp as possible and as close to the camera as possible so I don't run into any of those problems anymore and the other reason is that because of how compact the DJI RS3 Pro is if you attach accessories onto like for example the top of the side handle right here it can easily get in the way of the axes as it's turning and it can easily bump into the accessories for example the wireless transmission system if I put it right here there's a huge chance that this back axis is going to just bump into the accessory itself and if you're curious about my gimbal rig itself I have a whole another video right here that goes over all the small rig parts that I use for my my gimbal so next we're going to move on to the handheld SLT tripod rig first things first I'm going to detach everything here so we have a clean start we're going to remount this to the top of here and that's going to go on the side like this so this is what the follow Focus motor looks like when it's attached to the top side of the camera and so now I'm going to actually attach the top handle first to the uh natal rail that the um follow Focus motor comes with and then for the Mars 300 wireless transmitter I'm going to attach it to the top already Z Mount right here going to go like that and grab my HDMI cable into the transmitter and then into the camera and then for the side grip I'm actually going to use the hand grip that comes with the small rck Magic Fizz follow focus and I'm going to break it down even smaller that's what it looks like and I have a little accessory that it comes with to attach to natal rails and so that's going to go onto the side just like this cool that gives me like a dual hand grip setup and if I'm handholding it like this and this grip is really good because it has this little front rocker right here so that if I needed to I can just operate it from here using the Little Rocker on the front now something that I should have attached in the first place is going to be the base plate for the Canon c200 which they don't make anymore they don't make this part anymore it's discontin so now you have to go with something like the lightweight base plate and that should give you the same results as this one so first I'm going to attach the base of this to the camera and then this whole thing goes onto this mounting plate right here which gives you the 15 mm Rod mounting points I'm going to take two 6in carbon fiber 15 mm rods and stick it to the back these are from small rig as well and this will serve as the mounting point for the vmount battery plate this one is really cool because it's adjustable it has a little knob on the back so that the battery can be readjusted after you mount it I'm going to make sure I give myself enough clearance so that I can still open up the LCD screen after I mount this accessory on there cool and I'm going to grab my cob 99w vmount battery and I'm going to mount it to the back just like this cool so now that it's on there I can just simply push this vmount battery all the way to the uh back of the camera so that it makes this rig completely compact going to attach my DTaP wire to the camera and on the side of the vmount plate right here I have a little wire clamp so that it kind of holds the wires in place so that it doesn't go everywhere and it looks just like that after I've mounted it next we're going to mount this adamus ninja 5 monitor to the top of the handle right here I have a little monitor mount from small rig and we're going to attach it to the far right side of the monitor so that it gives you enough balance for the heavy uh battery that I'm using on it now that I have the monitor on top of the handle I'm going to attach the HDMI cable from the monitor into the loop out of the HDMI through the uh transmitter just going to go right here and through the in so now that we have everything attached we have picture up here on the Monitor and this is going to be connected to the receiver that's going to be on a director's monitor so that the wireless transmitter is going to send the signal out to the receiver so that a director or someone in video Village can look at the image so this ring is almost there the last thing that we need to do is to attach a mat box to the front of the lens to make it look a lot cooler and also to maybe block out lights flares or something like that so the first thing we're going to do is attach the Step Up Ring to the front of the lens and then attach the matte box to the front and the one that I'm using here is the small R mini matte box the mini matte box is probably one of my favorite matte boxes that I'm using uh I just don't really need that much out of a mat box other than cutting out light flares or lens flares I don't really need it for filtration because I have internal NDS on the Canon C70 so I'm not using it for that so really it's for cutting out light flares and just looking cool however if I do need to use some sort of filtration the trays on this map box are stackable meaning that you can put multiple trays on top of one another and this is pretty much my handheld rig this is what I'm going to be holding and using most of the time it's a pretty decent size rig and it also has a lot of weight to it so that you can get smooth handheld shots and if I needed to use it on sticks and put it on a tripod I would actually attach this base plate to the bottom of it and the base plate goes onto the bottom of the rig just like that and then can easily attach it to my small R free Blazer tripod and one last thing I forgot to attach is the road Wireless M mics that I use for Scratch audio and that goes onto the cold shoe Mount right in front right there and then I have my 3.5 mm Jack and that way I can get better scratch audio in case I needed to sync in post and so that's pretty much the rig that I run for Gimbal and handheld and also on my tripod if you have any other questions leave it down in the comments down below if you like this video make sure to hit that like button and subscribe for more videos just like this one until next one my name is Alex Young and I'll see you later bye