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Jamie Rhodes-Simpson

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  1. My pleasure Frederic, thanks for some great products! :) I just posted about the Pilot Gimbal Grip in a bit more detail here too: http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?showtopic=20614&p=102961 And I should have also mentioned so people know this is possible, that you made the monitor yoke custom fitting so that it will work both with the Swit monitor that came with my Steadicam Pilot HD and also my eventual planned purchase of a Convergent Design Odyssey7Q.
  2. This grip is fantastic, I'd say essential for the Pilot, I love it! The difference is night and day better. It was quite tricky to fit because there's almost no slack at all on the cables in my post, so I had to improvise. Frederic was very helpful and we talked via FaceTime to come up with a plan. I ended up putting the two post sections at 90° (only just about possible with the cable available) and using a large flat blade screwdriver to gently prise the grip apart further than normal for fitting to enable me to slip the cables in and start working them through the fitting slit to the other end of the grip. Well worth the effort though, the difference is remarkable. I also ordered the Zephyr HD Monitor Yoke for my Pilot, which is another brilliant upgrade. More from me on this here: http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?showtopic=20074&p=102958 I've posted a photo set to my Flickr account for anyone who wants to see what they look like fitted in some detail: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjZBc4tf Highly recommended for Pilot owners.
  3. I ordered this monitor yoke and the Pilot gimbal grip for my Steadicam Pilot and both are brilliant upgrades for the Pilot. The grip is fantastic, I'd say essential for the Pilot, I love it! The difference is night and day better. The monitor yoke gives so much more flexibility in the position of the monitor, which makes it much easier to get it somewhere you can actually see it and still balance the rig, plus the more obvious advantages of changes of monitor position without upsetting the rig balance and easy switches to low mode. Our logo is also embossed on both parts, which is a really nice touch, they're quite subtle, not too showy, which I like, but it's still clear who the rig belongs to. :) I've posted a photo set to my Flickr account for anyone who wants to see what they look like fitted in some detail: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjZBc4tf It's also worth mentioning that Frederic is very personable, helpful and easy to communicate with! Cheers Frederic!
  4. I totally concur and a friction type release sounds even better, so I hope that one works out!
  5. Thank you Frederic, that all sounds very promising and I look forward to hearing more in due course! :) If there's an easy way to size one yoke for different monitors just by adding or removing a washer on each side, that'd be a good solution for many people I imagine. And yes, a grip for the Pilot would be fantastic because it's not an ideal size tube for the operating hand to properly wrap around (at least it feels that way to me). If you do make a grip for the Pilot, how would you make it easily adjustable given there's no existing grip as part of the gimbal? Perhaps that could be solved simply by using the same sized allen style screws that the gimbal uses so you can use just one T-handle allen wrench to adjust the lot very quickly. And weirdly it could give the Pilot a possible advantage in low mode because you could relatively easily switch sides with such a grip if you really wanted to! ;) Wishing you a great weekend! Jamie.
  6. Hi Frederic, I'm wondering if this kit would work on the Pilot too? It should make switching to low mode a whole lot easier assuming the current Pilot HD monitor cg is also in line with it's centre 1/4" mounting holes. I've looked around for a monitor yoke I could adapt and came across your post here, which looks like the perfect thing. The monitor I currently have has the new 7" SWIT S-1071HS monitor Tiffen are now shipping with the Pilot HD and in the future I might want to mount a Convergent Design Odyssey7Q to use with our Sony NEX-FS700 camera for the recording options it provides. The Marshall size appears to be: 179x144x55mm By comparison: 192×139×47mm - Swit 200x155x25mm - Odyssey7Q Would it be possible to adjust or adapt this to mount 139mm and 155mm widths (and switch between them as necessary)? It'd be a good investment for the long term too, because ultimately I'd love to upgrade to a Zephyr at some point and would still be wanting this feature. Best wishes, Jamie.
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