What's up creatives since this is Tom welcome back to another video I've got
exciting one for you today a lot of you guys have been asking for it this is my
Canon 90D rig there we go that's a closer look at the rig we're gonna be
going through this rig build piece by piece I'm gonna tear it down I'm gonna
build it up from the ground we're gonna talk a little bit about this rig and why
I've gone with this as a configuration this is actually using the new small rig
cage system which they've just released for the 90D so I think that's probably
gonna be one of the first rig builds out for this camera which is quite exciting
absolutely love building these camera rig videos so if you do enjoy them and
you are interested in seeing this build hit like on this video let me know
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before we do actually go straight into the build and actually building the rig
from the beginning up there is just a couple of things I want to talk about
with this rig so first of all is this is a combination of a handheld rig and a
gimbal rig and what I mean by that is that I actually keep the cage on the
camera when I'm wanting to do gimbal work and it also has the flexibility to
be used handheld it's got a top handle at the top here and it has side hammers
here as well as you can see so I sort of used the right hand grip on the 90 d and
then the left hand wooden handle grip here so that gives it great stability
from a handheld shooting point of view but then I can take off the handle the
monitor and the left handle very very quickly and just be able to use the use
the camera on a gimbal which is great I've also got some rails on the bottom
of the rig here now please don't eat me in the comments here I have these rails
on the system basically to just add some extra weight now I don't ever use the
stabilization feature on the Canon 90 D I really really try to avoid that
because it's sort of a post-processing stabilization it just really just
doesn't look very good in my opinion so adding as much weight to the rig as
possible which is also for I've got this battery on my monitor here it basically
just means you're giving as much weight to the camera as possible meaning that
you're going your footage is going to be much more stable you're gonna have
less camera then you would just have if you're just
holding the camera like that so that this rail system and the bass player is
literally there once you make it easier to go onto camera tripod systems but
also like I said for the extra weight there we go enough talking I think let's
just go straight into the building go through this thing piece by piece all
right so here we have my rig this is all of the components here and the sort of
main proportion or the most important part here is the new small rig cage of
you guys a slightly closer up the look of that so this is the sort of like
tapered design which they're going with with for their new cages but personally
a massive fan of this new sort of small rig design and this has a couple of
really nice little features so first of all is that and it screws on with like
just a quarter twenty thread like that and and it actually has this little sort
of magnetic attachment which it just lives in the bottom of the cage there so
we can just screw that on straight away to the 90 D so that will just go in like
this that will just screw directly in to the bottom just like that you can screw
that I would say this is like a pretty good fit and it does have a little bit
of giving it sometimes I think just because it's only one attachment thread
and it doesn't look like you have someone else to attach the camera to the
cage but overall it's fairly tight it doesn't move around once you've
installed it and really tightened it all up you do need to tighten it up the
first time nicely alright so that is the cage now installed on the camera as you
can see already giving you a little bit more grip on the camera I mean the nice
thing about the 90 D in general is that it's got very good grip unlike like I'm
shooting this on my A6500 and I keep the cave permanently on that camera
because it's basically just an absolutely tiny camera body the 90 D has
a little bit more of a weight and and feel to it but I do like the feeling of
the cage on the camera alright so next up and I think we will install the left
handle this is the left the small rig left hand with like wooden
left handle as you can see and it's got a locating pin I don't know whether you
guys can see that on the end there they go so those sort of help guide it into
the holes here on the right heavy left-hand side so these will go into
this little connection here so let's just go ahead and screw those in I have
found these sort of new design of locating pins like they work really well
you do have to tighten them quite substantially to make sure they all fit
nice and flush and you don't have much give so as you can see now this has a
bit of give in the handle so what I do is actually so small rig have been super
kind and actually set me out this new small rig tall multi-tool which is
awesome this is what it looks like it's basically just the small rig multi-tool
that I absolutely know you know I talk about in all of my rig build videos
these are just super useful if you do camera builds camera rig builds often
that these have all a bit different sort of allen keys so what I tend to do is
just pull out the smallest allen key and then I'll just tighten this by using one
of the holes on the on the connection and then there we go that has no give on
it now so that handle is installed on the camera nice and easy
alright so next is the top handle this again is the sort of wooden style
new-generation top handle again with the locating pins same deal this can go
straight into the top of the cage here let's go ahead and do that I do like to
have a top handle even if I don't do a ton of shooting like from the hip using
the top handle and I will explain why in a second so like I don't do a ton of
this sort of shooting however the main reason I tend to have the top handle on
there is actually just for sort of transportation and movement like so
convenient to just pick up your rig pick up your camera using a top handle like
this and that can directly screw on we can directly
on the monitor mounts so I'm using the my Atamos Shinobi monitor just a
fantastic monitor you guys have seen me use this countless times in other rig
build videos and I either's use this for my Blackmagic Cinema Camera sort of like
three hundred and fifty dollars ish and you're getting just a fantastic field
monitor and this is the small rig monitor mount and that just slots
directly in to the to this top handle here so a nice thing a diff new addition
is they have like a release plate on the top here don't know whether you can see
that but their release plate on the top handler so this can slide directly in
and then the shinobi I am looking into some kind of system in order to hook up
this monitor to the front of the top handle here because I do think that
would be a slightly more ergonomic setup having found a setup that actually works
for that just yet but they do have again another sort of locating pin area here
so it's definitely possible and then I've used the these Sony NPF batteries
these are just newer Sony NPF batteries are by those on Amazon and that powers
the shinobi again I've talked about this before the reason that I have this
weight on instead of powering the camera from these batteries is that like I like
to in these rigged video video these rig build videos fix the problems with the
camera so the monitor on the ninety-day is great and but it is not you know
super flexible you can't see it outside and fantastically well so giving having
this extra monitor is a nice big bonus the battery life on the 90 d is actually
very good unlike the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera which is the my other sort
of quite popular big build video so I don't need to work on an external
battery solution I just just bring you know a few of the
Canon 90 D batteries with me and that sees me through the entire generation of
the sheet and the extra weight on the battery here just adds to the sort of
stabilization on the camera and again that is the same reason which I talked
about earlier that I have this base plate and there's an additional reason
so this is just a set of rails and ace more rig baseplate that can screw on
directly alright so once that's installed there's another reason I
actually have these rails so first of all is the added weight as I mentioned
before in the intro another is that I can when I'm shooting hand out so I will
have maybe a hand on this handle here handle the right handle of the 90 D but
an alternative is to mount my hand underneath like this and I can actually
hold these rails and still pull focus at the same time I don't know whether you
can see that there but that is a really nice solution to get an extra just point
of grip on the rig build and and it just means that I can either pull zoom like
this or pull focus like this and that means that I'm not sort of giving up
this point of contact every time to go and pull focus it means that I can walk
around keep it keep the camera nice and close to my body and shoot just like
that so there we go guys of course nothing too revolutionary about this rig
build but you know it's just building on the fundamentals of the camera for me
the biggest thing about this is adding some extra weight to the camera and
getting it to feel basically just really ergonomic and shooting really really
great handheld video like the 90 d should be able to do let me know if you
guys have any questions about the build in the comment section down below and
I'll catch you guys in the next one just a super super quick one and for those of
you didn't read my community post I've been kind of back and forward on
publishing this video and today because obviously in light of everything that's
happening in the world right now and with the black lives matter movement I
didn't really want to sort of detract from that conversation how I did just
decide that see I decided to publish the video because I know that quite a few
people are excited to see it I'm just not going to promote it like crazy right
now that way I feel like is the good balance between people who want to watch
it can watch it and but I'm not sort of clogging up the feed of more important
information at the moment and I will also leave some donation links if you're
not in a position to be able to donate right now there is a link also down
below to a long youtube video and we have relevant information
in it and and the nice thing about that is that all of that ad revenue is going
to the black lives matter charities or organizations and so that's just a
really fantastic way to support the movement even if you're not able to
donate right now so all of those links and things like that will be down below
and I will catch you next time