It's always nice when it fits on a gimbal when you are done.

That bit about exposing and grading slog sounded interesting, can you do a next Video about it?

Would love to see a video on exposing and grading S-Log 3 and what you've learned on how to improve it

It just keeps blowing me away that this tiny camera has so much potential. A cam you can take on every trip, but also use it on a 50k shoot and nobody is complaining. Insane. Good video man!

That's a dope rig mate. If you add a tilta wrist strap on the right side, it starts to feel like an fx6

Right, Matthew’s meat! Always much of substance from you mate! Thanks, and cheers from the States! 🫡🇬🇧

It’s so good to see you again. Your content inspires me to go out and film something, even this video when you’re sharing about your gear. Keep it coming!

James is so helpful and humble!!!

The best rig i've seen so far.

this looks really solid. When im going for an fx3 (or then fx3 mk2) as a B-cam in the future, im going with this build for sure. really minimalistic and still ergonomic and practical.

I really like your setup and you explain very well how you use it.

Great little rig M8 I like npf power too but had considered all sorts of Heath Robinson ideas for mounting but then you nailed it with the L brkt great idea and cheap and low profile top...

highly recommend the 99wh smallrig v mount bat instead of the NP battery, gives great weight distribution with the 24-70 which tends to be front heavy. Loving your setup! have been going more minimal lately as well.

Thanks for this mate - I just went on Amazon to get a bunch of this gear, good timing with Prime Day!

I've been "borrowing" your ideas since your BM rig days, thanks a ton, mate! I owe you one... Come shoot in Argentina, and you'll have a sidekick ready to go. 🙌

Love this James!!

Using a pretty similar setup just with the smallrig cage and v mount & an atomos ninja v, although it’s tempting to change to the portkeysbone as I hardly ever need to shoot raw and the camera control looks great

NOT using log profiles is so much easier to expose and focus - and probably saves a lot of time in the edit + no iso limitations / gotchas (speaking as a panasonic user where you get stuck with iso 640 minimum in bright daylight...) How much production value do you reckon log profiles give you over going for a look in camera? What cases would you promote for in an camera look.

No outro banger track...🥲

Finally a rig that suits me 🤩 Is the cage essential ? It looks like I can fix the L bracket on my nude FX3, isn't it ?

Hey James go ahead and get that Smallrig plate that goes to V-mount and then you can get for a few bucks get the "Fomito V-Mount Base Station" which the "V" part can screw into your smallrig NPF base. So you get everything you are after with the now added benefit of using a V-mount battery should you ever choose to in the future.

Lol James I do the chin support move as well hahaha this had made me feel less weird about it! Been looking to put together a handheld rig for my A7S III and didn't know about a lot of these components so nice one for the recommendations!

Sick one, pretty much the same set-up here but S5IIX. I bought some neoprene padding for the back of my v-locks for the chest contact. On occasion I've also hooked a peak design strap round the set-up for a point of contact round the neck (or chin if you'd prefer ha). How come you're commiting to the NPF's and not bolting on a mini-v James?

Interesting an nice minimalistic rig. You show it on a gimbal but would it actually work on a normal gimbal (like RS or so) with the battery sticking out to the rear so much?

Cool rig! How do you record and sync audio?

What happens if the battery disconnected mid clip. I would think V mount is a more secure connection agains your chest? I do like this idea otherwise

Rig master - what’s your secret LUT

I had lexar cards fail me multiple time on shoots. Colleagues as well

Im looking to upgrade and not sure where to pivot.What would you prefer. The s5iix , the fx3 , a7iv , s1h ?

my mate is back

nice video about your setup! $o, one last thing..the overall Ka-Ching?

Hey James, what is that very slim and neat right angled hdmi cable you have into the side of you FX3?

What’s your personal approach to properly exposing for S-Log 3?

Great video, which HDMI cable are you using? Cheers

What's your set up with audio ? Do you not recommend the FX3 XLR handle ?

How is this monitor vs say atmos ninja? Are the colours good? Thanks

The image is a bit dark, mate.

Hey you stole my chin method :D :D haha

Bosh

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nice rig but we need to address the elephant in the room. Audio???? you’re not running audio into camera?

The ultimate compact rig! ... the chin contact is sleeper! Also just got this cage for the FX and why oh why of whyyyyyy did I not use Nato rails before. Rig, to gimbal in seconds!! Sweet video dude, always a sucker for Rig videos. I tried these Lexar cards in the FX (well the old ones) and they wouldn't record XAVC-S 50fps :( kept skipping and failing on some files so had to get the Sony ones :(

Para ahorrarse algo de peso y espacio, usen su celular como pantalla para la camará.