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Support & Monitoring
Tripods, gimbals, monitors, filters, cards and the rig that joins them.
49 products · 6 groups · 31 makers
Gimbals & movement
- Steadicam Aero 30 — A real vest-and-arm rig, second hand
- Vinten Vision blue5 — Perfect-balance head for a light cine rig
- Dana Dolly Portable Kit — Speed-rail dolly moves without a dolly grip
- Tilta Float handheld support arm — Takes the gimbal’s weight off your arms
- DJI RS 4 Pro — Heavier payload, for a cine body and a zoom
- edelkrone SliderPLUS PRO — Twice the travel of its own length
- Zhiyun Crane 4 — Gimbal with a fill light built into the handle
- DJI RS 4 — The gimbal most small crews own
- Zhiyun Weebill 3S — Built-in sling grip — low mode without rebuilding
- Vaxis Atom 500 — Pocket-sized wireless for a gimbal rig
- DJI RS 4 Mini — A gimbal light enough to carry all day
Tripods & heads
- Sachtler aktiv8 flowtech 75 — Touch-and-go legs — set up in seconds
- Miller CiNX 3 fluid head — Heavy payload, very fine drag control
- Sachtler FSB 8 — The documentary head, properly damped
- Sachtler flowtech 75 legs — Clamps at the top — set up without crouching
- Manfrotto 504X fluid head with tripod — The first proper fluid head most people buy
- SmallRig FreeBlazer carbon tripod — Carbon legs and a fluid head for under a thousand
- Benro S8 Pro video tripod kit — A real fluid head on a student budget
- Manfrotto 502AH fluid head — A proper counterbalanced head on a first-film budget
- Libec TH-X tripod kit — The cheapest head with genuine fluid drag
Monitors
- SmallHD Ultra 5 — The bright one, with the new interface
- Atomos Shogun Ultra — 7", 2000 nits, timecode built in
- SmallHD Cine 5 — 3000 nits on the camera, readable in sun
- Blackmagic Video Assist 12G HDR 7" — Monitor, recorder and scopes for the price of a monitor
- SmallHD Indie 7 — A bright 7" director’s monitor that takes LUTs
- Atomos Ninja V — The 5" recorder-monitor that made ProRes RAW normal
- Atomos Ninja (5") — The current 5" recorder-monitor
- PortKeys BM5 III WR — Monitor that can also run the camera
- FEELWORLD LUT7 PRO — A bright 7" monitor at a quarter of the price
Wireless video
- Teradek Bolt 6 LT 1500 — Twice the range of the 750, same zero delay
- Teradek Bolt 6 LT 750 — Zero-delay video to the director’s monitor
- Hollyland Pyro 7 — Wireless monitor and receiver in one
- Hollyland Mars 4K — 4K wireless to four phones at once
- Accsoon CineView Quad — Four inputs, switchable — a tiny multicamera village
- Accsoon CineView SE — Video to a phone, for under three hundred
Rigs & filters
- Tilta Nucleus-M II — Three-channel wireless lens control
- Tilta Mirage matte box — Magnetic filters instead of fumbling with trays
- PolarPro Mist Edition VND — Diffusion and ND in one piece of glass
- NiSi True Color 1-5 stop VND — Variable ND that does not turn faces green
- SmallRig Universal shoulder rig — Takes the camera off your wrists
- Tiffen Black Pro-Mist 1/4 — The filter that takes the digital edge off
- SmallRig Cage for Sony FX3 — Mounting points on every face
Media & power
- Anton/Bauer Titon 90 V-mount — Powers the camera and everything hanging off it
- ProGrade Digital CFexpress 4.0 Type B — The card rental houses keep buying
- SanDisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Type B 1TB — Fast enough for raw, in most cine bodies
- Core SWX NANO V-mount battery — Light V-mount with a real fuel gauge
- Tilta Nucleus Nano II — Wireless follow focus that costs less than a lens hood
- Angelbird AtomX SSDmini 1TB — The drive an Atomos recorder wants
- Samsung T9 portable SSD 2TB — Record to it, cut off it, post it
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