- Hey there, Caleb Wojcik at AV 2016
at the Zacuto booth and I'm talking with:
- Kim, Kim Hutchinson,
I'm the sales director here at Zacuto.
- And we're gonna look at
the new EVF here that they have, the new Gratical.
So what's new?
Why'd you guys change the shape?
The buttons are different, the connections are different,
what's new?
- You know this is yet another customer we're trying to hit,
hit all the customer bases and all the user bases.
This is going to be for people that
are using broadcast cameras that have the SDI outputs
and just want something as small as possible,
very lightweight.
So we made this body as small as possible,
and to do that we actually took out
the capability of internal power.
We took out the LP-E6 battery.
So you power it with a two-pin Lemo.
You can use either polarity.
We also are making a cable that's SDI and power in one,
so that you can have the smallest,
lightest weight viewfinder but still keep
that high quality micro-OLED display and the optic system.
- Yeah, and I've used the old one
and it used to have four buttons on it,
and the LP-E6 batteries and stuff like that,
so the fact you can just build it right into a power source
and you just have one button
with kind of a joystick on the back now, right?
- It's one button with a joystick.
You are able to program the four directions of the joystick,
so that when you don't have the menu open
you can use those as function buttons.
So, you do still have--
- What kinds of things?
- [Kim] You can assign any of the features.
This is a full-featured Gratical.
- So, peaking, zebras?
- Peaking, zebras, scopes, LUTs,
record light, tally light,
this actually also functions as an outboard tally
so your talent knows when they're, when you're recording.
- Oh cool, cool.
And then this is the diopter here so you know
what setting number you're at, as well?
- Yep, and it's still got
the negative one to plus four diopter range
so it's just going to work for most people's eyesight.
If you do need additional adjustment,
we do have drop-in diopters to make
that a bit more positive of a range.
Let's see here.
The other really cool thing about the Gratical Eye is
the proximity sensor, because you know when
you're shooting you might have to walk away
for a couple seconds and adjust something on the set
or go have a meeting.
When you take your eye away for more than about 10 seconds,
it'll turn the display off
so you don't risk burn-in and it saves power.
And when you put your eye back up,
it just pops right back up.
- Oh cool, I know that was an issue with the other one.
It's like is it on?
Did I turn it on?
Did I turn it off?
Batteries, and all that kinda stuff too.
- You do want to, it doesn't have a power button
so you want to make sure that you unplug it
at the end of the day so it doesn't suck your battery dry.
It's also firmware updatable just like the other Graticals,
so as we come out with new features being that
it is a full-featured Gratical.
You'll get any new features for free.
- Awesome, and then we wanted to look at the Marauder,
so do you want to grab the Marauder?
So this is a run'n'gun setup whether you're on a DSLR,
mirrorless, even a cinema camera.
This thing is really great.
You just can put it right up against your chest,
fully customizable.
- Yep, on this one, we actually have
the Marauder extension on it.
It doesn't normally come with the extra little arm.
This is for cameras that have
a really nice micro OLED viewfinders on the inside,
like the A7S, the Lumix cameras.
So that brings it right up there.
If you get it just normally out of the box,
it's a little bit shorter there.
- And then you would just be looking
at the LCD a little further in your face?
- We're using the Z-Finder Pros that we have
that go on the back of the camera.
This does also fold up nice and quickly.
- You want me to hold the camera for you?
- Yes, (chuckles), if you could hold the camera.
It folds down very nicely into small, compact package.
I've had people put it in their,
actually I had one guy put it into his cargo pants pocket.
I'm like that's, that is a really big pocket,
and your pants are gonna fall.
- [Caleb] Yeah, definitely.
- So there's, it's great for travel.
Short shots, 15 minutes or less,
gives you some nice stabilization.
You can attach a rod system to it if you want
with the mini-DSLR baseplate.
That's can be useful if you want to use a follow focus.
I think most people just usually use their hand
on the lens for focus though.
- Well, awesome.
I am a fan of this thing,
I've used your full rig with EVF before.
It's very helpful to be able to put the camera
on your shoulder and get a better feel of it as well.
So, I would say definitely check these out.
Check out the run'n'gun Marauder as well,
I always call it the run'n'gun 'cause--
- Well, the run'n'gun, we do have a run'n'gun bundle
which comes with the Marauder and a Z-Finder.
- So that's why I always think of it as that.
- Because it is a run'n'gun rig,
and until April 29th you actually get
a free Gorilla tripod dock with it as well.
- Awesome.
Well, definitely check out Zacuto for your rigging needs,
their baseplates, everything moving,
record handles, all that kind of stuff.
I love these guys.
Thanks so much for chatting with me.
- You too, glad I could chat with you.
- Alright, see you guys later.