- Hey, everybody, welcome back to another video
on the Sony FX9.
In this video, I'm going to go through
how I kit out my camera, what I use on it,
what are the must-have accessories for when
you're using the FX9.
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Okay, so this is my rig here.
This is kinda how I've got it set up
for a lot of my different shoots.
And you can see, I've got quite a few
different things on here, but I'm gonna go through first
some of the key things, some of the main things
you need to have in my opinion, the things
you need to have when you're using an FX9.
And the main thing, this comes from the FS7,
I don't know why Sony has not changed this,
but and I had the Shape handle
on the FS7 as well, on my FS7.
They make a new one for the FX9 and it's
a little bit different.
This is a must-have.
So, when you have the Sony handle on,
you can't lay this camera flat.
You can't move this around,
you can't get it up this high at all 'cause it gets stuck.
You can go down farther like this, but that's it.
You can't go up farther than that.
So you can't lay the camera flat
and you can't go up like this, so for me,
the Shape handle is a must-have, because if I want to
be able to move quick, I'm gonna be using a handheld
and have it up like this so they can have
the camera up in here and then I wanna go forward,
I wanna get this on my shoulder, I can pop it up over,
move over here,
bring it down again, I can get this on my shoulder,
get this going very comfortably.
I can extend the handle here, get that out.
Makes it much quicker to work with,
with this Shape handle on here, so I would say
that is a must when you're using this.
I think everybody should be selling the camera
with a handle like this.
And the Shape One is the best one I've seen so far out there
and it works very quickly, their technology
for punching this in and going out.
The next thing I would recommend getting is
a monitor, an external monitor.
The new eye piece on the, or the new viewfinder
on the FX9 and this, I actually have the Zacuto, Zacuto
however you say it wrong, Zacuto, Zacuto,
you guys can correct me in the comments,
their eye piece on here, I took this off of my FS7,
same one fits onto it,
so I don't have the big giant Sony one on here,
which I don't like at all.
But the actual monitor or the EVF in here is the same,
I think it's a higher resolution than the FS7
but it's still not great and it's pretty small.
It's not touch screen, so I think if you wanna get
some accurate focus and be using a monitor,
I would suggest using an external monitor.
I have the small HD focus Seven on here.
It can run for a long time.
Later on when the upgrade comes out for the raw output,
when I'm using the extension back,
I'll be using my Atomos Inferno on here
because I need an external recorder to be able
to do the pro res raw into it or DNG raw or doing the
high frame rates, you need to have a recorder,
but I'd prefer when I'm not using an external recorder
to be using my small HD because it runs way longer,
pulls less battery power that way,
so it runs longer that way, doesn't pull as much power
and I like the image off of it better as well.
I find it very accurate and a lot of great features
you can have on there, so that's another thing there.
So the next feature I would say an upgrade
when you get an FX9 is having some kind
of cheese grid up top, so Shape makes one,
Tilta makes one.
This is one from Small Rigs.
There's ones that you can use the original handle
and have it on here and it just goes around it.
And you have a bunch of different places to mount things.
Benefit of using the original handle is that
if you wanna use the hot shoe in the front,
you can do that with the Sony recorder,
and that will go straight through that,
you'll be powering the audio, sorry not recorder,
the audio receiver on the top of the handle.
I had one of those, but I very rarely used it.
And I'd rather have a set up where I can,
with this, this is actually a Small Rigs handle as well,
where I can kind of quickly move stuff around on here
to get a bit more micro adjustments on the placement.
I have some more mounting points on here.
And then if I wanted to quickly break this down,
I can slide this off and focus right off the camera
and I can get that out of here, so
it makes it a bit quicker that way
to be able to move that stuff around and be a bit modular,
I can take the handle off quicker,
I can then pack them into a smaller bag.
I do like this set up.
It does add some weight to it,
so does the top handle here.
And the next thing is I'm using the wooden camera's
EVF extension arm here, so it's this piece here
and this here.
It allows you to move this around quite a bit more quickly
in here, you can move this here back and forth,
you have a bit more adjustments.
And if I'm getting this on my shoulder,
this can allow me to get this eye piece quite a bit further
out in front of me to balance, to counter balance
the camera on there.
For my small HD monitor, what I'm using on top here
is a Small Rigs rotatable and articulating
monitor holder here.
All these pieces I'm talking about here, guys,
I have linked in the description below,
so you can go and check those things out
and see for yourself.
The next thing I have on top here is the Tentacle Sync,
I have this with their cold shoe adapter here.
And I just leave this on the camera
when I'm shooting with the time code generator
so I can be, have the exact same time code
as the auto recorder or the audio recordings
that's working with me or if we're doing audio ourselves
I have that going also into our audio recorder as well,
so we're all synced up there, you've got time code
because you have time code built into the FX9 now
or the FS7, you don't need to have the extension
back in there, that's a great feature.
And then I just have a wireless,
this is the Hollyland's wireless transmitter on here.
And then using with the director's monitor.
Don't always use this because a lot of times I'm out
shooting myself and I am the director and shooter,
and might have a assistant with me, but in some other
scenarios where we do have a director with us
or a client with us and having a client monitor,
this is a great wireless system and easy to have on.
And I can have it like this, that I can easily kind of
move this around and get onto a tripod.
The other thing I'm using when I am using
this handheld mode a lot of times
is right now, I have the Manfrotto plate in the bottom.
So I can slide down into one of my tripods.
When I'm using on a bigger tripod,
I will use this set up, which is a Small Rigs
shoulder pad there, which has the VTC mount
so I can put that onto another tripod
and it also gives me a big shoulder pad here
when I wanna go shoulder mounted on it.
I can be up here and I can move the camera around there
so I can get it very balanced for me and how I feel
it's gonna work the best when it's on my shoulder.
I can also move it quickly that way
and get it on the side here.
Again, it does add more weight to it.
I do like a heavier camera typically
than a lighter camera.
I find a heavier camera gives it a little bit
more stability to it and helps for smoother shots,
actually when I'm doing handheld stuff.
It's a funny thing in thinking that a heavier camera
causes less fatigue in certain scenarios
because you can balance a heavier camera
on your shoulders.
When you're moving with a heavier camera,
that weight on it just allows it to move a bit more smoothly
over a smaller camera when you're trying to hold it
and keep it still, you really have to focus and kind of
clench your arms together to get that movement.
This seems to me, and it's a personal preference,
that a heavier camera, for me, I like working
with more, I find it smoother.
Obviously this is not something I'm gonna throw
in the gamble and do something that way,
but as a main kind of "A" cam, this is my typical setup.
So let me know in the comments, guys,
what are the accessories you think are must-haves
for the FX9.
What do you like about my rig?
What do you not like about my rig?
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