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I bought a BCKK and use it together with a Tucit Duo to control the shutter of my camera and to control pan and tilt. This combination makes it a fine rig and I am happy with it.
So why not five stars?
A picture says more than a thousand words. And although there are pictures in the instruction, most of instruction is in the form of “put a bolt with this nut, then this washer, a spacer etc. and put in the hole…”. Also it took a while before I dared to start drilling to widen holes. Sometimes I thought “they cannot really mean this, can they really?”.
When you are prepared to spend some time (it took me ca. 8 hours I think), drill holes and use a file to widen others, have the patience to read through all options and finally figure out how the assembly has to be done, then this is certainly a rig to recommend.
It certainly is faster to buy this rig than to design your own, and when adding up all the parts the BCKK will probably not be much more expensive.
I now finally have a rig with my Olympus C5060WZ camera, with tilt and pan servo, 4x 2600 MAh NiMH batteries, 2 battery holders, Tucit Duo, Brooxes Better Gear Guide, Brooxes Hangups, Brooxes Legbrackets, 4 carbon legs, the hanging thread and a personal modification to put the Gear Guide higher, together weighing 1040 gram. The camera is 525 gram of that.
The Legbrackets have some problem holding the legs. After tightening the aluminum it is fine, but when then flying it and putting the rig on the ground, one fell off.
When the documentation would have been better it would have obtained my 5 stars, even though I would still have to drill holes. I do understand the difficulty of having a design for US and metric. And having two different parts for US and metric will not be economical at those small volumes.
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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