Well having a Fuji X-E1 kicking about the place with lots of quality glass around the house and concerned with the thought of having to splash out for a GH5 or A7RIII and more to the point more lenses I decided to have a look at the Fuji. The Fuji XH1 is looking like a great video camera so thought it might be a better route if it would fit the GB603 gimbal.
First of all there is plenty of room for the Fuji body, unfortunately the tripod mount is to the right whereas on the GH4/5 and presumably A7 it is on the left. A small hole drilled and I managed to get the body mounted in the gimbal. With the rather heavy 16-55 zoom it was not happy at all when I fired up the Tornado proaction so I tried the stock 18mm. That was a bit light I guess as it kept tipping back.
Swapped again for the 35mm and it levelled in the for/aft plain. I guess I got the position of the drilled hole a bit out as I tried to leave room for access to the HDMI cable socket and the gimbal tilted a bit to the right.
So, next I either need to re drill and try again or add a little counterweight, which I shall probably do temporarily at least.
I don't have a HDMI cable and its a bank holiday weekend so not much chance of getting one for a few days but that is my next thing to establish video feed.
Then its all down to if I can trigger the camera from the ST24. With the GH4/5 it is I think operated by wifi which the XE1 doesn't have but the LK58 wifi unit on the gimbal has a shutter release jack socket as does the camera so I shall have to try that when I can source one.
It might all be a waste of time but if it works then I cannot see why any small enough camera wouldn't work and I can consider a X-H1.
First of all there is plenty of room for the Fuji body, unfortunately the tripod mount is to the right whereas on the GH4/5 and presumably A7 it is on the left. A small hole drilled and I managed to get the body mounted in the gimbal. With the rather heavy 16-55 zoom it was not happy at all when I fired up the Tornado proaction so I tried the stock 18mm. That was a bit light I guess as it kept tipping back.
Swapped again for the 35mm and it levelled in the for/aft plain. I guess I got the position of the drilled hole a bit out as I tried to leave room for access to the HDMI cable socket and the gimbal tilted a bit to the right.
So, next I either need to re drill and try again or add a little counterweight, which I shall probably do temporarily at least.
I don't have a HDMI cable and its a bank holiday weekend so not much chance of getting one for a few days but that is my next thing to establish video feed.
Then its all down to if I can trigger the camera from the ST24. With the GH4/5 it is I think operated by wifi which the XE1 doesn't have but the LK58 wifi unit on the gimbal has a shutter release jack socket as does the camera so I shall have to try that when I can source one.
It might all be a waste of time but if it works then I cannot see why any small enough camera wouldn't work and I can consider a X-H1.