Being a big fan of the Sony VCT-U14a style tripod plates I have tried different solutions to get my smaller camera/ rigs onto them with mixed success.
Kit whiz-kids Jens and Steve at Zacuto made a small piece of metal to do just that…it’s simple but works brilliantly. The asked me name it, unfortunately due to different time zones I was drunk at the time, so here it is, the Zeddie Wedgie.
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Cheers to Mark Dawson of Londonmark Films for filming these and being the subject of my brutal beating.
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Hi Philip
It was originally called a Vinten Miniwedge. I believe it was designed to attach aerial surveillance cameras to planes in the 1930s. I was a Camera Product Manager at Sony Broadcast in the ’80s and my friends at Vinten and I managed to ‘persuade’ the Sony factory to drop the previous (terrible) camera plate and adopt a system based upon the Miniwedge. It was out of patent, and Sony changed the design to incorporate the spring mechanism.
Vinten were very philosphic about it and said ANY improvement in camera attachement was good for their business selling tripods etc.
I am now at Procam, where Dennis Lillie used to work.
FWIW
Dennie Lennie you mean Perry! Yeah I love my V wedge! Didnt know the history. That’s cool to know!