# The PERFECT Nikon ZR Camera Rig

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** DSLR Video Shooter
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzyRpUCC2oU
- **Дата:** 26.03.2026
- **Длительность:** 15:12
- **Просмотры:** 13,134
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/46093

## Описание

Turn your Nikon ZR into a cinema camera BEAST with these accessories and camera rig components. My Camera Gear: http://camerafoundry.com SmallRig 212W Battery: https://geni.us/smallrig-vb212 My Guides and LUTs: https://academy.dslrvideoshooter.com

GEAR MENTIONED:
Nikon ZR: https://geni.us/fYp3K
SmallRig Nikon ZR Cage: https://geni.us/IRG8V
Nikon Z to PL Adapter: https://geni.us/yeeD3Ii
Viltrox EPIC Anamorphic Lenses: https://geni.us/Znn7u6
CineBack® for the Nikon ZR: https://camerafoundry.com/products/nikon-zr-cineback?variant=42310683656290
Falcam F38 Quick Release Combo: https://camerafoundry.com/products/falcam-f38-full-kit-1
15mm Rods: https://geni.us/mG9hH5
Lens Support: https://geni.us/ViX0K5N
SmallRig 212W V-Mount Battery VB212: https://geni.us/smallrig-vb212 
DJI Focus: https://geni.us/htTi
Nato Rail for Focus Handle: https://geni.us/ht40vHz
Right Angle to Right Angle USB-C Cables: https://camerafoundry.com/products/usb-c-cable
Short Right Angle to Straight USB-C Cable: https:

## Транскрипт

### Introduction []

This is a monstrous cinema rig and at the center is a Nikon ZR. And in this video, I'm going to break down how to put together a rig like this for the ZR or really any of the amazing options we have available to us now. All of the pieces and parts, how all of the wiring and power works, which is pretty impressive, mainly using USBC. Quick disclaimer, no one is sponsoring this video. But that said, it is supported by those of you who purchase camera gear from me, like Cineback, which is what this rig is based off of, or the Small Rig 212 battery for powering your camera all day, or an insane rig like this for over 8 hours, which is bananas. Check the links in the description to learn more, and thank you guys so much for the support. So, let's go ahead and dive in

### Camera (Nikon ZR) and Cage [0:41]

and start with the camera and cage. At the heart of this thing, we have the Nikon ZR, a full-frame Red Raw capable camera. And I've been really impressed with this thing. So, that's what we're going with in this video. And the next accessory involved is going to be a camera cage, specifically the Small Rig camera cage. Short rant on camera cages. I'm really sick of how many cages have come out with very few mounting options on the bottom. And this is one of the few that gives us a few options when it comes to mounting to other gear, which we'll get to here in a second. Now, for this setup, I'm going to be using the

### PL Mount and Anamorphic Lenses (Viltrox EPIC) [1:11]

Viltrox Epic anamorphic lenses, which I'm going to be reviewing in a future video, so stay tuned for that. But to do that, we need a PL adapter. And I've been using this particular brand on Amazon for all of my different cameras, Sony, Canon, Panasonic, really everyone. And they're really affordable and wellmade. So, you can find a link in the description. But with that mounted, we're now ready to use these anamorphic epic lenses from Viltrox. There are a ton of different focal lengths available, but the three that I've been playing with are the 35, 75, and 100. So, stay tuned for a review on those guys. Then, we get into the meat and

### CineBack Rig [1:46]

potatoes of this rig and what really ties it all together. there. And for those who've been watching all of my videos, first of all, thank you. Super appreciate you. But this will be no surprise. We have Cineback attached to this bad boy. Cineback is a rigging and power accessory for really any camera. And it gives us a ton of power outputs as well as a place to place your camera screen. And all models these days have a quick release option, allowing me to quickly add the camera and remove it as needed. There's also a cable management compartment with a door on the side, allowing me to stuff all the cables for this rig inside of that compartment. And there's a power switch to cut power to the entire setup. So you can stick the whole thing in a bag and not worry about any battery drain. Another awesome feature is the full size HDMI adapter, allowing me to take the tiny micro HDMI, which is a real bummer on the Nikon ZR, and convert it into a full size on the other side of the rig. So to mount the

### Quick Release [2:38]

camera and the cage into Cinebag, I'm using the Falcam quick release combo, which you can pick up on the Camera Foundry website. That allows us to quickly add and remove the camera. But given the size of this thing, I'm going to be using a bolt down method. So, first I installed the camera. Then I used two bolts through the top plate instead of quick release knobs to lock everything down. From there, I added 15

### 15mm Rods and Lens Adapter Support [2:58]

mm rods. And I did end up modifying the length for the matbox and other reasons. But you can add any length, of course, depending on your needs. And with those installed, I could turn my attention to a lens support because I want to support that adapter since we're putting such monstrous anamorphic lenses in front of the camera. We're working on a lens support solution for Camera Foundry. But in the meantime, I found this one that worked pretty well. And I was able to mount it directly to the rods and support that adapter. So now we have a super lock down camera and lens adapter and we can add our lenses without worry of any sagging on the mount. Next up, we

### V-Mount Battery (VB212) And Run Time [3:35]

have a battery. And of course, I'm going to be using the Caleb Pike DSLR video shooter and small rig collaboration 212 watt battery because it just has a ton of juice and will last forever. So, I'm going to add it here to the Vmount. I'm going to turn on the rig. And once we have everything powered up, I can look at the back of the battery here. And currently, we have 95% on the battery. And this is going to last me 8 hours and 27 minutes with a monitor, a transmitter, a camera, and a wireless system that we'll be talking about for focus all being powered simultaneously. So that's incredible. Basically all day power with a single battery on a huge

### Lens Focus System (DJI Focus) [4:21]

rig. So that is the battery. And you'll notice here now that we have it turned on, we've got a couple of red lights around our lens. And I'm using the DJI focus system. We've got one motor on our iris, one on the focus ring, and on the other side, I have the motor, or rather the handle off to one side. So, this allows me to stop and start the camera. We can change our focus as you see here, and it works phenomenally. I could add the uh LAR, but with the Mapbox, it's not been my favorite setup, and I just prefer manual focus, at least with this configuration. And here I've got a couple fun little accessories and things that are really, really make this a dream to use. First, for the handle, I mounted a NATO rail to the side of the camera cage that allows me to add the handle and I can adjust it from kind of like this where it's more of a gunner style setup down to a more forward- facing setup. So, you can modify that and of course we can remove it completely since it's on a NATO rail. On the motor end of things, I have some

### Right Angle Cables ARE THE BOMB! [5:22]

custom cabling going on here. So rather than use straight USBC cables that would stick out from the rig here, I'm using the camera foundry right angle USBC cables. And to make this work, you do have to clip off a little bit of the plastic, but then they are snugly fitting on there. And as you can see, it's really nice and low profile, which I love. So we've got one of our short cables here between the two motors, daisy chaining them together. And then we also have these new cables at Camera Foundry that are right angle flat cables. And it's a male on the right angle side and a straight female on the other side. That allows me to again not have a cable sticking out the side of the motor, but snake really nicely back toward the handle for power. So, we've got a cable coming from the handle going into that first USBC cable going into the motors. then daisy chaining the two motors together with another right angle to right angle USBC cable. We'll come back to cables when we get to power for the camera and HDMI which is really fun.

### Matte Box (Wooden Camera UMP-1) [6:24]

Uh but for now we're going to move on to the matbox. So you could go with anything here. I'm going with the at this point slightly dated but just as incredibly rugged and awesome wooden camera UMB1. This is a swingway matbox and it has so many different functions and options and ways to mount it. But the configuration I'm using is this uh springy adapter ring, which is awesome because you can just butt it right up against the lens. And since this is a cinema lens, it's perfectly sized for I believe this setup is a 95 outer ring. So that allows me to very easily mount the matbox. But the main party feature is that it is a swingway matbox. So I can loosen this thing, slide it forward with a dial, press a button, and switch out lenses if I want to with this setup. And of course, it's on the 15 millimeter rods, so we've got really nice um stable security there. And then I can pull the matbox back, lock it into place, and we're back in business. Uh one fun little mod is this front eyebrow hood uh is actually 3D printed because there the original one is monstrous, and it flares out really far. I really like this one cuz it's nice and compact. Um, I'll see if I can find that file for those who might have this matbox, but it is a really, really slick, simple, clean setup. So, really dig that. The matbox is very expensive. There's other options available, but this is the one that I use. Now, let's turn our attention to all the stuff going on the top of the camera thanks to Cineback's monstrous mounting cheese plate. So, the first thing I did was wanting to get my monitor up and on this thing. Though I

### Monitor and Wireless Transmitter Setup [8:01]

placed at the very front of the cheese plate on top a NATO rail, a 70 mm wide NATO rail that allows us to mount this whole monitor setup that you see here. This is a custom setup that I built and did a whole video on. So, you can check that out over on the channel. But basically, we have a small HD Indig monitor mount. And then on the back of the monitor, I'll flip it around so you can kind of see here. Uh, we have a USBC adapter, power adapter that can take USBC in and split it out and power an MPF Sony style battery device or devices. It actually has two that it can power. So, essentially, I've got USBC coming out of Cineback, one of our USBC power delivery jacks goes into this adapter that is going to feed power to this wireless transmitter. You can see it's turned on right now right here from Hollland, a 4K transmitter. And then it's also powering the monitor and sending a USBC output to our focus handle over here. So with this one device, we can have one power delivery cable going into it and it's going to power three devices, which is really, really fun. And you can see a voltage readout on top. So check out that video if you want to learn more about it, how I did all the cabling for it and put the whole thing together. In the last note on the monitor, there's a setting in here where you can have it automatically turn on when it receives power. So now when I cut power with the power switch on the side of Cineback, it turns off. Obviously, everything is turned off right now. There's no power leaving our battery, which I love with Cineback. And then I flip the battery or the power switch back on and the fan is spinning up and it'll take a while to turn on, but it's automatically turning on. I don't have to turn that on, turn this on, turn that on, and turn 20 different things on. It's going to turn both my monitor and my transmitter on at the same time. By the way, my transmitter is hooked up to my production monitor, which I'm watching currently. And I've done a whole video on that setup. If you want to see how I monitor basically any shot I create here in the studio, it's with that production monitor right over there. So, that is the monitor setup, which is really handy. I can just grab it, move it around, do what I got to do.

### Top Handle (Mid49 Rainbow + Arca Swiss Quick Release) [10:13]

Now, let's talk about the handle, which is really cool because we can grab this release that's really tight as it should be, and I can slide the handle forward or back or remove it al together. So, this is the uh mid49 rainbow handle. It's close to perfect. I want to talk to you guys in the future about top handles and something that I consider to be perfect, but we'll get to that in a future video, so stay tuned. But this one's really, really good. Pretty darn close to perfect. So, mid-49 rainbow handle and that has different extensions. I have the 100 millm extension coming off of the back. Uh to mount it to the camera, it can be throughbolted directly into the cheese plate or if you want to add a quick release, you can because the base of this is Arca-Swiss. Um, and I've done a

### Caleb with Hair [10:56]

video on using Arca-Swiss plates for handles forever ago, but it's cool to see someone making that. Uh, and then the quick release here. So, on the top of the cheese plate on Ciney Back, I've added an Arca-Swiss quick release. And that is held down with four bolts. Now, I can simply take my handle, add it here, and lock it down in place. And now I have a monstrous huge top handle, which I super appreciate. What's super

### Nikon ZR HDMI and Power Cable Setup [11:22]

cool with this setup and the small rig cage is I can then take an HDMI right angle micro cable, plug it into the camera, stuff the excess cable into Cineback. that actually plugs into Cineback and spits a fullsize HDML on the other side. That right angle cable, which is red in my case, also can be used with the Small Rig cable lock here. So, I've got it locked down. There's my little HDMI cable, nice and secure, and it's not going anywhere. And we also have the USBC power delivery input to power the camera and charge the battery that's in the camera's grip. So, we don't have to mess around with changing batteries or use a dummy battery. None of that stuff. No problems because we have USBC going in. And then on the other side of Cineback, I have a right angle USBC power delivery cable coming out of Cinebach, going into the cable compartment and plugging into that whole power setup we just talked about for the

### Power Cabling for Monitor and DJI Focus Handle [12:16]

camera. The other USBC output coming out of Cineyback is going up to the monitor's power adapter, feeding the monitor, the transmitter, and then another right angle cable and cable adapter is coming out. My goodness, my stool is dropping down. There we go. That was weird. Um, the other cable coming from this power adapter up here comes back down and into this focus handle from DJI and that powers the handle, keeps the battery topped off.

### HDMI Cable and Cable Management Compartment [12:44]

The last cable is the HDMI cable, and that's coming out of the full size HDMI cable on Cinebec, which is right down here. That's going into the cable compartment, is coiled up, and then comes back out up here and into the monitor. So all the cables, you just plug them into what you need. And then you take the coil excess and stick it inside the cine back cable management door and it's all nice and tidy. Everything, as you can see here, is nice. Look at this. Look how clean this is. There's no cable bundles. There's nothing sticking out of the side. We've got clean access on both sides of the camera. Everything is right angle, which means everything is nice and tidy. And with one power switch, I can completely cut power to all those devices. It just doesn't get any better, does it? The

### Cable Management Gear (Mondo Ties, Rubber Ties) [13:27]

last thing I have with this rig are two cable management little accessories. One is going to be the Mondo tie, which is amazing and available from Condor Blue, and that's mounted to the side of the cheese plate. That's keeping all the cables going to the monitor nice and tight. So, you can see here as I adjust the monitor, see how tight and neat all of that is? That thing is keeping the cables locked into the side of the CDback cage. So, love that. Also using some of these I don't know what they're called, but there these little rubbery ties and you wrap them around cables and it's really nice for keeping things tight. So I've got like three of those things. Again, keeping this little bundle or harness of cables going up to the monitor nice and tidy. So as you move the monitor around, I just hit it against the handle. Uh it'll be good to

### Why I Separate My Top Handle and Monitor [14:11]

go. Also, I forgot to mention the reason I'm doing this handle and monitor split is I really like to be able to adjust my handle and not mess with my monitor because I could mount the monitor to the handle, but then the monitor gets super tall. Don't really care for that. I like to keep that nice and tidy. Sometimes I just want to get rid of a handle, maybe mount something else here, and just leave my monitor and all of my cables nice and neat. So that's why I like to split uh or separate the handle from the monitor al together. And this combo makes all of that possible. Of course, I could with a NATO rail, which I have on the back of the handle here, move the monitor over there if needed. And that is going to wrap up this video. If you want to see footage from this kind of setup, stay tuned for my review of the Viltrox anamorphic epic series lenses, cuz I'm going to be using this exact setup to film all the footage from that. If you missed something, check all the links in the description. That's going to wrap this one up. Thank you guys so much for watching.