Today I have a quick review the Photography & Cinema camera pistol grip.
It's designed to be easy to use and it will help you stabilize your video shots.
Now let's take a cloers look at this pistol grip.
It's got nice molded finger grip positions here so when you put your fingers around it
and you really grasp it, it's got a really good feel to it and a really good solid feel
when you when you hold it.
On the bottom of the handle there's this metal loop here you can hook a strap to.
There's also this other opening here where we can hook another type of hand strap to.
This bottom one can actually be untwisted and you can actually hook that onto a tripod
if you want.
So let's go ahead and put that back on.
There's the P&C logo.
And then the top here, the way to tighten this on to a camera, you just simply turn
this little dial and it turns the screw up in the top.
Now one of the things that's unique about this particular handle is that this pad is
actually built wide because most of the time you're going to be hooking this on to a digital
camera which is actually more wide than narrow.
And it's got this nice little grip pad here to hold the camera in place it's tightened.
I use this P&C grip on my Canon 7D and it really helps me out when I'm out shooting
handheld video.
Let's go ahead and I'll show you how this is attached to the camera.
All you have to do is attach this just like a tripod.
Just line up the screw and just twist the little dial until it's tight and it will be
attached pretty securely onto your camera.
Once that's hooked on and you pick up the camera, it's got a really nice solid feel
to it.
It feels like it's part of the camera.
The grip feels really nice.
It just has a really nice feel to it.
I like to use this pistol grip along with my Carry Speed VF-3 viewfinder.
I find that shooting with the viewfinder helps me to get even more stable shots because I've
got more points of contact with my body.
And I'll go ahead and show you what this looks like.
So I'm going to quickly take off this pistol grip and put on the plate for my viewfinder.
Now let's get the
viewfinder on there.
So now with this viewfinder, this plate has got the mounting holes here so I can actually
attach the pistol grip onto this pretty easily.
Once that's attached, now you have a shooting rig that is really nice to use when you're
out in the field and you want to just get up and shoot really quick.
I like how you've got the point of contact here with your head and then also the hand
grip, the pistol grip is really nice for stabilization.
Usually I shoot with two hands.
I've got one hand on the on pistol grip and I use my left hand to focus.
In addition to using the P&C pistol grip on a DSLR, you can also use it on these small
point-and-shoot cameras.
It also helps out when you're trying to hold your camera up for a long time shooting video
with one of these.
You can also use it on a standard a video camera which I haven't used in a long time
but it can come in handy with the these types of cameras as well.
However I prefer to use my pistol grip with my DSLR just because it's such a heavy camera
and it just is a lot more comfortable shooting with it.
This is definitely an accessory that you should have in your camera bag.
It's not that expensive so it's really not something you really have to think about pricewise.
So if you're thinking about getting a pistol grip for your DSLR set up I would definitely
recommend the P&C pistol grip.