The brand new Sony a7C II offers a huge amount of tech in a very compact body. What if you could supercharge it so that it suddenly had most of the functionality of a cinema camera? Can you get the best of both worlds? How much would it cost?
Longtime enthusiast of innovative rigs Caleb Pike has put together an ingenious package that gives you the stability and functionality of something like the Sony FX6 but without compromising the convenience and compact build that are fundamental to Sony’s brand new a7C II.
This looks like something that SmallRig would consider for its DreamRig program — especially when you consider how many parts are from SmallRig themselves. Since 2017, SmallRig has been offering customers the opportunity to pitch ideas for rigs that would make their filmmaking easier, and more than a few of them have gone into production.
It makes you wonder what other cameras would be a good candidate for this sort of build-out. With its 6.2K 30p, 10-bit video, and internal ProRes 422 HQ, the Fujifilm X-H2S might be an option. What would your suggestion be?
Is this the ideal solution for filmmakers on a budget who need to squeeze as much performance as possible from a single camera body? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
I remeber a competitor who was adding grey plastique boxes with big Sony logo to transform a small camcorder into a shoulder cam to "impress the client"
20 years later, we are still presenting such, and there is an audience for it.