Red Rail

[Anders Holck]

I just read the 'Christmas Presents' thread at DVXuser, and catched up on the dovetail thing Mr. Papert and Mikko was discussing.

Then I realized that I always figured that you could just pop the shoulder brace and the grips off the red-rail, and mount the whole thing on a tripod/grip, to maintain the position and connection of the magazine, battery, FF, lens etc. And use fixed adapter plates for my tripod/steadicam/crane etc.

Is this actually the case and is the brace mounted in a dovetail on the bottom of the red-rail?

[Jannard]

That's the plan...

Jim

[Anders Holck]

Thanks.
Are you also building the accessories for the prototype(s) (So we can see some nice stills of the details :-) )

[mikkowilson]

... and you know I'll be first to volunteer my services as a Steadicam Operator if you want some feedback :)


Anders, good point about keeping all the accessories with the camera. Allowing RED-rail to move between Steadi and sticks easily is important.

- Mikko

[Brook Willard]

... and you know I'll be first to volunteer my services as a Steadicam Operator if you want some feedback :)

I still volunteer my services as a freefall cameraman :D

[Jannard]

We love posting pics as we go along... no reason to stop now. :-)

[Mardi_Gras]

We love posting pics as we go along... no reason to stop now. :-)

Would sure love to see those when available.

[Alexis Hanawalt]

Scrounging...

Why wasn't a standard dovetail implemented?

[Anders Holck]

Wow, great "blast from the past" :-)