Whoops

I had to wait over a month for my Snapgears to arrive from the US and I was sort of excited to see how they worked out. However, I did have ever so slight misgivings about them. Those misgivings centred around the fact that the snapgears form a complete circle. You get five sizes of gear when you buy them from Indisystem and there’s no flexibility or adjustment to be had from them, just the size and that’s it. With the Redrock gears, they’re very simple, and we use an elastic tie, rather than the screws they come with, simply because it’s a lot faster to attach them and reattach them when you change lens. We had the Snapgears on set this weekend, and almost immediately ran into annoying problems with them. We simply couldn’t work out which gear would fit our lens choice and even when we found one that was close, it wasn’t close enough and the magnets didn’t hold it in place. So, instead of saving us time they actually slowed us down. We went back to the Redrock gears, little piece of elastic, swift on, swift off and that worked just fine. Zacuto have their Zipgears but according to our friend at the Editman, Shoot35′s solution is very nice indeed and a lot cheaper. I have a lot of time for Shoot35, they’re a small company but they make nice, affordable products. Still, I’ve bought a follow focus from Redrock, it comes with gears, they work, easy. I got suckered by the gimmick of the Snapgears and I’m not sure I’ll use them again. I’m an idiot. But we knew that already.