DSLR RIG REVIEW

by Sebastian WöberJanuary 23^rd, 2010

The handles slide on easily and are locked on the 15mm steel rods with a plastic screw. It locks and unlocks very well but needs a little force to do so. Quality is sufficient there. The big knobs lock and unlock well enough too.

The rods are part of the body. They aren’t locked in the base plate with a screw but have threads at their ends, and are screwed right into the base plate. We haven’t found this solution to negatively affect stability, so we did like it.

The base plate holds a quick release plate that is similar to a Manfrotto tripod plate. There are two different tripod plates available on Danny’s homepage. This allows for a quick mount on a tripod, but most DSLR shooters will probably want the rails and rest of the rig on the tripod as well.

There is a tripod platform with holes for ¼-inch as well as 3/8-inch screw to attach your tripod plate underneath the rig. When used in this manner the rig wouldn’t fit on our Manfrotto 501 tripod unless we readjusted the angle of the shoulder pad with the big knobs. This is time consuming, because it meant we lost our setting of the articulations every time we put the rig on a tripod.