DMM Dragonfly Cams | Outdoor 2018

Hi my name is Darren, I'm a design engineer at DMM and we're at the DMM stand at Friedrichshafen in 2018. I'm going to talk you through the new Dragonfly cams. The Dragonflies are a range of small cams that we've got, six different sizes and they will go from 7.4 millimetres on this green one, the smallest one, all the way through to this purple which actually overlaps very nicely with the Dragon size one, the Purple Dragon. So you can see here we've got an extendable sling on these and we've got a nice compact bar tack pattern here which actually means you can clip and pull through on either side of the sling which is quite a nice feature when you're gripped you don't want to faff about with which side to pull you can just clip any one and pull through we've got a thumb loop on these ones so these are more of a specialist cam so we decided to put the thumb loop in as these are more likely to be used for aiding so that thumb loop gives you that short clipping point which just saves you a little bit of extra length so you're closer up and higher up there we've got a really nice ergonomic thumb press and trigger here and that's helped with the centralized suede which means the cables are all in line with the center of the cam so when you pull it you get a nice smooth even pull that's nice and straight and it's not wanting to buckle to one side down here on the bottom we've got what i call the trigger bar that's nice and slim and compact so it's actually when you've even on this small this size here when it's fully cammed this is still smaller than the cam head which means you can just place this fully deep in a crack and it's not going to interfere you can place it however you like, it seats in really nicely then. We've got a really flexible stem in all of these cams which is great for when they're in those awkward little places and you can't quite orientate them right, they'll just bend around to help you reduce your rope drag and that combined with the triple grip on the lobes really helps minimize walking. The lobes have got a 13.75 degree camming angle which we found which is the same as camming angles on the Dragon cams. We found that's a great combination of range and holding power so we've kept it for the Dragonfly cams. The lobes are made out of 6082 aluminium which again is the same as on the Dragon cams and that's a slightly softer alloy of aluminium and that actually gives you a really good bite into the rock for those more delicate placements that you often have with these smaller cams. The final little bit is we've got a really narrow headwhip here. I think this is the narrowest headwidth on any cam that four lobes cam that you can buy so that's great for filling in those fiddly scars or pockets or small cracks. In terms of strength, this green one here will be 5kN and with its 7.4mm range that will actually make it the smallest rated cam on the market when it's released. Going through the sizes, you're going 6kN, 6kN, 8kN, 8kN and 10kN. So these will be available in spring 2019. They will RRP for £64 each.