In this video, I show you my Panasonic Lumix S1 Rig.
I tear it down and build it up from scratch and explain what each component is used for and why I use it for my rig.
This rig can be used for any camera and cage combo.
Camera: geni.us/LumixS1
Cage: geni.us/F8qiz
Rapid connectors: geni.us/NqRW3
Side handle: geni.us/ONLJBj
Top handle: geni.us/NstCC
Wrist strap: geni.us/w0zbk
Base plate: geni.us/g5Khqqg
Arca Swiss quick release plate: geni.us/9QgGX7O
Carbon Rods: geni.us/SkCapq9
Rod Clamps: geni.us/Yvg1xA
Cold shoe mount: geni.us/gMxSA
Monitor Mount: geni.us/9IebdFI
Monitor: geni.us/ehzc8
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In this video, I’m going to show you my Panasonic S1 rig. I’ll tell you all the components that are in here, why I got them, and how they fit together. So stay tuned for a full teardown of this.
So before I start, I’m going to tear this down to the bare minimum. So I’ve just got the camera and the lens, and we’ll start building up from there.
Right, so we’ve now got the camera down to its bare minimum, which is literally just the body and the lens. We’re going to start making up the rig.
So the first thing that I have to do is take off the lens hood from here so that we can put on the first component, which is the camera cage.
Now it just so happens that all the parts that I have bought are from SmallRig. This video is not sponsored by them. It just so happens that for what I needed, the SmallRig products were exactly what I wanted.
So this cage is going to provide protection to our camera. It’s going to provide loads of mounting holes and it gives an extra cold shoe mount as well and a NATO rail so you can add parts onto. And this particular one even has a hole so you can access the battery without having to take the camera out of the cage.
So let’s just start by putting this through and securing this. It comes with an included magnetic and little mini screwdriver part.
Now there is another connection point on here which mounts the little corners on the camera where you would put in your camera strap. So you have to take off those little parts, the little triangles or the round or kind of square parts that you have. So you can feed this little screw into the camera cage. So it secures it from two points, from the bottom and this particular part. So this cage now sits on the camera. That is not going to slip or swivel in any way within that cage.
Now two accessories again from SmallRig are these quick release adapters that I’ve put on so that I can quickly put on either a wrist strap or the neck strap. They can be taken off when I need to and I’ve put two on this side so I can have my neck strap around and I can also have my wrist strap if necessary and then we can put the hood back on.
Now I have a Weber-less gimbal which comes with an Arca-Swiss type mounting plate. So I’m going to put this on the bottom of the cage so that I can take this off the gimbal and then I can also put it onto any sort of a tripod which has an Arca-Swiss type mounting plate. So this again goes with two screws onto the bottom.
The next item on my list is a side handle by again SmallRig which fits onto the NATO rail on the cage on the side. So you literally just slide it on and you tighten up the screw. Now this will allow you to have a dual grip on your camera so that you can have more stable footage if you don’t want to use a gimbal and because this entire rig actually makes the camera heavier you will get stable footage because of the added weight.
This side grip also includes some more mounting points and an additional culture mount.
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The next thing on the list is the top handle. Now this has got RE locating holes so you just screw in the top handle and that pushes down the two locating pins so that the handle doesn’t twist left or right. That’s a really good way of securing, and it comes with a little allen key so you can just slide it through the little holes and lock it and tighten it even further. That allows you to hold the camera from the top, and then you can do low shots and it’s, you know, you can just hold it this way as well.
I’ve also added another quick release adapter on to the back of this so that I can have my wrist strap, and let me just show you. This is the wrist strap that I have, and as I mentioned before, I can have the wrist strap on me here so that I can even lift up the whole camera from the wrist strap with no danger of it falling. Then when I’m holding it on the top handle, I can just click this on and again hold this and let’s just say if it did fall out of my hand it nicely is secured.
The next item on the list is a small rig base. Now this has got two holes for 15 millimeter rods and then I’ve just mounted on a little Arca Swiss quick release onto it so that I can put the Arca Swiss quick release onto here and fasten it and take it off the base when I need to.
I’m then going to use two rods with two rod clamps so one rod clamp has got another Arca Swiss quick release on here so that if I do need to put this onto a tripod with an Arca Swiss type connection, I can clamp it on as well, and then on the other one I’ve put on, or I’ve screwed on, a little cold shoe mount and you’ll see why in a second.
So this is the dual stud mount. This is where you tighten either by pulling the mount, monitor mount, which I can just slide on, and using my monitor, I now have an articulating screen with my monitor. Now this allows me to have my monitor at any angle that I need and with the rods moving in further if I have to or slightly further out if I have to, that leaves me enough clearance for my screen to come out on the camera as well as this monitor.
So, if I need to look in this way, I can, and I still have access to the touchscreen. And there you have it, my rig for my Panasonic S1. If I want to take this off and put it onto my gimbal, I literally just take off the side handle like that, untighten the thumb screw and the re-locating holes from the top handle, and take that off. Then, undo the Arca Swiss quick release and this nicely goes on to the gimbal and packs away into my bag without any issues. You can catch a video about the bag that I put this into up here.
So, in summary, this rig can be made with any camera. You just need the cage for your particular camera and everything else can fit onto that. Small rig isn’t the only company who makes the rigs. I believe there’s something called Nicirig and Tilta as well. However, like I mentioned before, for my needs, the components that came with the small rig were what I needed, therefore I bought them.
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My Camera: – geni.us/LumixS1
Camera cage: geni.us/F8qiz
Top handle: geni.us/NstCC
Side handle: geni.us/ONLJBj
My wireless mic: geni.us/gICv
My on-camera microphone: geni.us/3hbz5FP
My variable ND filter: geni.us/if2x
My camera gimbal: geni.us/StoBab
My camera bag: geni.us/6tqU
My memory card: geni.us/8Ovd9S
My 5” Video Monitor: geni.us/ehzc8
Monitor mount: geni.us/9IebdFI
My Studio Light: geni.us/n6wsEkR
My LED light: geni.us/eJ0L
My RGB LED Light: geni.us/GXZrA
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My tripod: geni.us/RdwOh
My Monopod: geni.us/DL5QSh
My mini Tripod: geni.us/cZHQvt8
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My Pocket Gimbal: geni.us/wN3w5
Extension rod for Pocket Gimbal: geni.us/Y13xe59
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Mobile phone mount: geni.us/fZMMnb
My smartphone gimbal: geni.us/9kJ3
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