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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2022Archimedes said "give me a long enough lever and a fulcrum and I will move the world. It's pretty obvious he had a BMPCC 4k with the Sigma 18-35 and a speed booster. It is a classic set up after all and a total pain to balance.
When it comes to Gimbals the camera and lens are the levers and the effect of sliding the Camera Plate forward or back is to take weight from one side of the balance and add it to the other side. The further out on the axis the weight, the greater its effect. Which is why it often feels like it's on a knife edge and just a microscopic position change will make it front or back heavy .
Smallrig make another set of Gimbal counter weights but they are designed for the elbow of the gimbal arm. How do they compare? This set easily wins.
With a Gimbal you need static and dynamic balance, What it means in practice that the further out the weight is the greater its effect on dynamic stability. This counterweight adds weight at the core where its needed, unlike the earlier model and its way easier to fine tune the balance. Because the balance is done near the core, the gimbal performs better.
It's a rather clever design for both static and dynamic balance isn't it, well thought out.
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