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A Little More Space On The Shoe

Whenever I review hard-disk video recorders (and I do a LOT of those reviews) my first two questions always are:

How do you power it?

and

How do you mount it?

I remember one review of a unit that was essentially functionally useless, but had a new feature:  A shoe-mount, so it could ride on top of the camera.  At the time this puzzled me, because I had a shotgun mic up there.  What to do?

A hold-over from still cameras, the shoe-mount remains quite popular.  Shotguns, wireless receivers, lights, field monitors, teleprompters, and many other devices all fight for this valuable piece of camera real estate, which is actually less than 1” square.  The good folks at K-Tek are looking to resolve some of these land wars with the release of the K-Tek Shoe Bridge, which elevates all the accessories 4” above the camera and creates a mounting rail 6.5” long.  That ought to make space for almost any accessory, although a smart shooter would watch out for weight & balance issues - the shoe is only so strong, y’know.  Check out the K-Tek Shoe Bridge at www.ktekbooms.com .

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Your KtekBooms link is broken.

Posted by Rob  on  07/09  at  03:42 PM

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Thanks, I fixed it.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  07/09  at  09:13 PM

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I remember when I shot news with large Colortran on-camera light mounted on the hot shoe. I broke off so many of those hot shoes that the station engineer go on my case and bought me a handle. Those shoes don’t hold much weight.

Posted by DanConklin  on  07/10  at  08:04 AM

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  10/02  at  11:50 PM

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