Maxim van den Nieuwenhuijzen

Thanks Sev for your answer I really appreciate the time. Indeed trying everything would be the best. So far I only tried tiffen with different rigs & vest. Sadly gpi does not have any reseller or service center in China so that would be a no for me investing so much money and not having after sales. Leaves me with Arri & Tiffen for most of it. The workshop was done on older rigs and last day we could try the M2 with volt and it’s true joy to fly such equipment. Arm wise I indeed contacted all reseller available and they are happy to send it over to me to test it. That’s why I was thinking to first buy the rig and then try to get all vest/arms available to test everything. I agree that tool-less arms are attractive that’s why I started to think about g70x and even considered waiting a bit for maybe g70x2 but other people also recommended me checking the xarm with the rubber and a cheaper price as well. Thanks again and hopefully we meet along the way. Cheers Maxim

Hey everyone, New member on the forum, really appreciate that their is such valuable information around. First would like to introduce myself, I'm a franco-belgian production company owner & new steadicam operator based in Shanghai China. I was lucky to take part in Tiffen's workshop last september in Beijing with Robin. It was an amazing experience and it made me discover a new passion. Since then I have spent a lot of time talking to people in the industry here in China and I have some questions that always are coming back to me which I would love to have everyone here's opinion. As the first rig i flew were from Tiffen i'm obviously going to invest in a M2 rig with vol (also most common used one) While the M2 is the most common I see lots of people using g70x but also lots of people using smart system, flowcine or GPI arms. GPI doesn't not have any reseller here in China so for servicing reason i would not buy one. But then as a beginner i'm kinda wondering why people would choose any of those 3 others. (Price, weight are obvious reasons but are their any other ones) Same goes for the vest. So far only tried the tiffen ones, don't like the exo vest but felt good in the ultra vest. Xspine looks to be very popular, any experience of switching from exo to xspine? Really appreciate anyone who will take the time to read and answer, glad to join the steadicam operator family and hopefully along the way I will end up meeting some of you. Thanks