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RedShark Review: Rakesh Malik gives his appearance on the tough, but actual carriageable Dutti Barrow from Matthews.
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Matthews is accepted for its anchor gear. Recently it alien a new humble barrow alleged the Dutti Dolly, called afterwards anchor James Daldutti.
The kit that Matthews beatific me is its Rental kit, with an MSRP of $2500. It comes in a solid wheeled case that altogether weighs in at about 75 pounds.
Contained aural are the barrow itself, a set of three brackets forth with the four standoffs appropriate to affix it to the dolly, and 75mm, 100mm, and 150mm basin adapters. Not included are the rails. Matthews recommends article agnate to the 1-inch aboveboard animate tubing accessible at accepted accouterments food like Home Depot. The brace that I purchased were eight anxiety in breadth and amount a absolute of $16 each.
Assembling the barrow is aboveboard already you amount out what goes where. You attach the arena for the basin adapter to the barrow application the four standoffs, which places the arena about two inches aloft the dolly's platform. Select the actual basin adapter and abode it on top of the metal ring, again abode the provided washer on the basal and use it to defended the handle for the basin in place. Already we knew what went where, this accumulation action took about ten minutes.
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The brackets arise anon assimilate C-stands or ablaze stands and anniversary has a brace of triangular cutouts to fit the aboveboard tubing. Simply abode the aboveboard tubes into the cutouts, and abode the barrow itself on the rails.
With the video basin and tripod attached, my Red Epic-W sat about eight inches aloft the apparent of the dolly. The absolute accumulation with the Epic-W, its Tilta cage and a Sigma ART 50-100 lens, bowl, Nitrotech arch and the Dutti Barrow concluded up actuality appealing hefty, but already placed on the balustrade it's cottony bland and about altogether quiet. It's bland abundant to crave about no accomplishment to move it forth the tracks, but it was additionally ample abundant that we could see the angle in our 1-inch animate tubing. The angle had no aftereffect on the dolly's smoothness.
Since the arena we were cutting complex a airing and talk, we capital to get some footage of the actresses' anxiety walking forth the trail.
As an experiment, we placed the tubes on the arena and put the brackets upside bottomward on top of them, again abode the barrow on the tracks.
The brackets, alike inverted, captivated the tubes in the appropriate orientation, basically on a corner, for the barrow to work, and the after-effects were some nice, bland barrow moves with the camera a bit beneath than a bottom aloft the ground. It's not an ideal agreement because anytime addition alike bumped a tube it would circle aback to collapsed and derail the dolly, but with care, it works nicely. Added on this later.
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On the additional day of our shoot, we were planning to accumulate the camera on the barrow appealing abundant all day, alike for the changeless shots in adjustment to accumulate our bureaucracy time to a minimum. This accepted to be a acceptable best because we concluded up actuality a bit abutment challenged: we alone had two C-stands, and the large, abundant Fresnel lights we were application captivated them both. So we concluded up aggravating to accomplish a brace of ablaze stands assignment for the dolly, which led to addition challenge: one of the ablaze stands had a damaged captivate captivation its stud in place, so aback we absorbed the bracket, it wobbled a bit... abnormally with the absolutely loaded barrow on it.
Fortunately, the rental kit includes a brace of studs with 3/8 inch screws on them. We purchased a brace of 3/8 inch couples from Home Depot so that we could arise those studs on tripods, one of them actuality my awfully athletic Absolutely Appropriate Stuff Versa Series 2. We approved application the tripod in the average of the rails, but that alone partially worked; we concluded up accident a few takes because every already in a while the ablaze angle would accord hardly and cruise up the camera operator. It took some experimenting, but we begin a agreement application the Absolutely Appropriate Stuff tripod on one end of the balustrade and scrounged a additional tripod to abutment the centre.
On addition shoot with an alike tighter timetable, we concluded up application the Dutti Barrow for aloof a few shots. There wasn't time for us to set up added than that, additional we were alike beneath on abutment accessories for that shoot, accepting alone one C-stand that wasn't committed to acknowledging a ablaze or scrim. As an experiment, I placed my RRS tripod on top of the barrow by blame the legs into a adequately attenuated configuration. While I wouldn't acclaim application this agreement as a default, aback it's adequately ambiguous with the tripod legs narrowed in that much, it absolutely concluded up working.
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I was able to anchor the camera and acclaim accelerate the accomplished accumulation sideways, and aloof the abrasion amid the tripod's elastic augment and the dolly's apparent was abundant to move the dolly.
It's absolutely that smooth.
While I didn't get a adventitious to analysis them, Matthews has a set of accessories that attach to the Dutti Dolly, including a bench and an elevator that would accredit agreement the camera on the barrow securely, rather than relying on a tripod with the legs bankrupt in. With a weight appraisement of 800 pounds, it will handle appealing abundant any camera and abettor aggregate you could appear up with and apparently accept no agitation with a able-bodied sized jib as well.
Since it's congenital with skate wheels, it's accessible to use the Dutti Barrow anon on a bland floor, but the floors area we were cutting weren't all that smooth, so we didn't try it in this configuration.
The Dutti Barrow is compact, versatile, and smooth. While its amount is a bit high, it's congenital to aftermost and is rental friendly. I will absence this barrow afterwards I accelerate it aback to Matthews.
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