Carry Speed - Mogocrane support belt for video equipment - adjustable length belt with tiltable aluminium sleeve

If you've used a gimbal with any type of camera added for a day of filming, you'll know that it's a real workout just holding and filming for 5 minutes - especially whilst the talent/director pisses about trying to make a decision. The options are limited: you could go the whole hog and spend £300-500 on a full bodyrig support, get a gym membership....or buy this. I chose the latter option and used it immediately on a manufacturing site shoot and.....it really does work to ease the strain. It helps with shooting, making one-handed focus/setup adjustments and just relieving the muscles whilst filming longer clips. Anyone who's done long shots and their muscles start to quiver and shake (which offsets the whole point of the gimbal) will understand what I'm talking about here. For the techno-junkies out there I was using the Zhiyun Crane with a Sony A7C and 24mm lens attached - not the heaviest combo....and neither is 2 bags of sugar, but you wouldn't want to walk around holding them at arm's length all day either, would you?The downside, and why I didn't give it 5 stars?Price, of course. If this thing was half the price it'd fly off the shelves. Being a tight-ars* Yorkshire bloke, I was loathe to pay the price, but now I have it, I do find it extremely useful. I suppose you could 'Blue-Peter' one up with an old belt, some gaffer tape and one of your gran's plastic teacups, but it won't be the same.On reflection, my home-office is a graveyard of unused, photographic/camera tat that I've wasted money on over the years, so I can somehow justify the cost for this, as unlike all that junk, I will use this again.One thing though, make sure that you have the belt adjusted correctly 'cos this thing will leave a mark, just above your 'block and tackle', which will get your wife asking awkward questions when you get home from a shoot.

This worked extremely well with my Ronin gimbal and a Canon 5D mounted on it. Unfortunately the metal knobs broke off after about 3 months of using it for an hour or 2 a week. The belt still worked ok without them but the tension was lost and presumably there's a risk that it may eventually fall apart, hence only a 2 star rating. I was refunded no problem, but would rather have had a serviceable item.