Rick Seefreid

Could you forward contact information for Mr. Luna? Website?

Thanks

I'm curious how many of you require deposits as I do?

Forgive me moving off-point...but what happens with shipping across the border? I'm just curious as I havent yet shipped to Canada.

Hi Rick,

Nice picture.., nice Sled. Looks like the Artemis DV Pro Sled, how are they match up ?

I'm really thinking a couple of months now to use the same combination. Thanks for the picture..

Best, Erik

The Artemis arm SUCKS, and the vest weighs about as much as a small automobile. <_<

But the sled is very nice for it's price range. The Artemis sled and the Flyer arm are a nice combination.

For those of you who own the flyer and have tried to put a HDX900 or Varicam on it, what type battery mount is your flyer?

Here is the HDX900 on the flyer arm and Artemis sled. 2 Dionic90's, aprox. 1/2lb additional ballast on the battery. Camera stripped of it's battery and viewfinder. Clip on mattebox with one 4x4 glass filter.

The arm was one hair short of being maxed out and flew really well. As you can see, it's real close to the gimble. But it's balanced pretty well.

Oh my god.

I'm selling my gear now.

Amazing.

I own an HDX900 and no, the Flyer will not fly it. As mentioned above, it's an issue of adding enough counterweights to the bottom.

An update for those who work with the flyer:

I stripped the 570 of it's viewfinder and anton v-mount adapter and of course powered it via the rig. I flew a Dionic and a IDX-10 together on the battery side. On the monitor side a small audio receiver, sun shade and approximately one additional pound of ballast.(probably less than a pound)

The result is that it flew extremely well!

I have no idea what the final weight was, but it did not feel anywhere near "bottoming out". I was able to dynamically balance it as much as you can dynamically balance a flyer, which was pretty close. At one point when I cranked the arm screws in to help me hold a craned-up lock off I discovered about 3 more revolutions left in the screws.

The flyer is "the little rig that could." LOL.

However, sooner or later I'm going to snap the bolt/threads on the battery mount arm. It's pretty obvious it's not designed to handle that much battery weight. Trying to get the arm to stay where I put it requires over torque and even then one tap of the leg or hustle across the stage and it slips out of balance.

I worked for ten days doing musical stage shows with lots of hustling around so the rig was not treated gently. This is the most I have asked of the flyer and it surprised me by not just squeaking by, but by flying perfectly. How long it could withstand this is questionable however...it's time for me to step up to a bigger rig. :)

Forget the arm...those shoes kick ass!

It takes SO much effort to search the forum. It's much easier to ask you Kareem. :P

Thanks. I like that Baer-Bel and chris fawcett's custom plates. I'll check on the BB.

Rick

Thanks so much guys, I appreciate the feedback!

I pulled up Sony's spec sheet on the 570 and the 35 and it indicates in NTSC config that the 570 is 14.10lbs and the 35 is 16.5lbs. This is with lens, viewfinder, batt, and tape.

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/docs...m%20v10749g.pdf

The comment about the mounting plate is valid. I find that sony's quick release is 2lbs!

Does anyone know where I could get ahold of a custom plate? A search for mounting plates only brings up the Sony one. :(

Do you know what weight you were actually operating at?

I'm doing much the same thing in a few weeks witha flyer and I'm right up around 15lbs. I'm a little nervous it may be 1 or 2lbs over. (sony 570 or a dxc35 with wide angel lenses)

Also when we say "15lbs", are we including sled batteries and monitor, or are we talking only about camera/batts/transmitters etc. ABOVE the gimbal?

Rick

As a newer member here and as someone who has wasted more time than I care to admit on "forums" on the internet...I can say that the best defense to "bitching and backbiting" is to simply ignore it.

And to be honest, from my perspective you all look a wee bit silly when you get catty. :)