The ONE Problem with the Small Rig VMount Battery Plate

The SmallRig V-Mount Battery Plate is an elegant solution to get a compact v-mount battery set on your video or cinema camera rig. However, there is ONE major issue with this solution that you need to know about before purchasing.
In this video we'll discuss the benefits of this product and how you can save yourself from it's main downfall.
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0:00 - Intro
0:26 Why You Should Consider the SmallRig VMount Battery Plate
2:39 - SmallRig VMount Battery Plate Unboxing
6:12 - The ONE problem with the SmallRig VMount Battery Plate
10:50 Wrapping It Up

[@RobertMTeegarden]

6:12 for the ONE problem with the SmallRig VMount Battery Plate

[@jason_barty]

All you need to do is unscrew and remove the locking arm from its little cog, then rotate it either clock or anti clockwise a few degrees to make it clamp tighter or looser depending on your needs, test and retighten. If you have a few arca plates find your widest and narrowest, then once it set to fit both of them, all your plate will fit. Be careful not to strip the small screw and the locking bar may need a good pull to remove it first time.

[@jason_barty]

All you need to do is unscrew and remove the locking arm from its little cog, then rotate it either clock or anti clockwise a few degrees to make it clamp tighter or looser depending on your needs, test and retighten. If you have a few arca plates find your widest and narrowest, then once it set to fit both of them, all your plate will fit. Be careful not to strip the small screw and the locking bar may need a good pull to remove it first time.

[@jjurii]

That’s what I was thinking while watching this. Every arca clamp item I’ve ever owned was adjustable…

[@marcosuozzi]

Thank you for this ;) It works now!

[@enriquemartin8655]

Thank you for your presentation. I also have the Small rig battery holder. Great piece of equipment.

[@Shotbyamin]

I just got this mounting plate and I can confirm that this fits super loose on my Falcon cage for my A7RV that has the F22,38 and 50 plate on the bottom. I just got the FX30 and I’m glad I found your video. I ordered the Smallrig cage for my FX30 instead of the Falcom cage. Great info!

[@Limitless.By.Design]

I ordered the Falcom Cage and im glad i saw your comment... do you think there is a way to mount this on the cage?

[@Shotbyamin]

Not unless you use the mounting plate that it comes with.

[@jason_barty]

All you need to do is unscrew and remove the locking arm from its little cog, then rotate it either clock or anti clockwise a few degrees to make it clamp tighter or looser depending on your needs, test and retighten. If you have a few arca plates find your widest and narrowest, then once it set to fit both of them, all your plate will fit. Be careful not to strip the small screw and the locking bar may need a good pull to remove it first time.

[@ekphotography]

Thanks for the video, a quick question, I have the half cage small rig for the A7IV and the small rig base plate, the simple one for a set of rails, not the double rail connection points, like you showed around @9:30 ish and on my half cage the 2 little screws to put the base plate to the half cage do not line up with the base plate, so I have to put 2 other screws "vertically" to attach it. instead of the 2 smaller Hex type screws that are suppose to work with the base plate and Cages but it does not. So I have to use the typical base plate type screws on the other holes which stinks, but does this V mount work with the base plate. for rails, that you showed? the screws line up so you can put 2 screws instead of just one in order to keep it from twisting? Hope that makes sense. They made a mistake with the A7IV half cage because it does not allow this like it should, the holes are 1mm off so you cannot put the 2 hex type screws to attach the base plate for rails to keep it from twisting. Thanks brother

[@Jeffasaurases]

The niceyrig cage for Sony ZV1’s arca mount is soo big for the cage…

[@WeekendBuilds]

So I just got in the plate yesterday. ran into the exact same issue, I'm running a canon m50 in smallrig's own cage. they did not do a full cutout on the front of the cage and I had to take a file and continue the arca channel to make it fit.

[@2trackminded]

Hey Robert, do you know if the arca clamp on the plate is adjustable? I find that it's way too tight and won't close all the way when using it with the FX3 smallrig cage.

[@thomasjmcclure]

looks great! im about to order one for an a6700 rig, curious though about the arca swiss not fitting the kondor cage. is it possible to take the clamp apart and adjust it? i had to do that with a nato clamp recently that wasnt working, had to change the tightness of the clamp on the inside

[@jason_barty]

yes, you can.

[@Digitallifeconcepts]

Yup...clear day day! now we know you live at P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!

[@tomarmstrong9367]

I just got this with an R6 Mark II black mamba cage and until I watched this video I actually thought i needed to mount the arca swiss plate ONTO the cage and it was just horrible. I had no idea the cage was already compatible and just slid right on LOL

[@chuteinraw]

Hi, looking into building my FX30 rig just as such. Do I need to bail on 15mm rods and lens support for this rig? What are your thoughts? Great video btw!

[@RobertMTeegarden]

You don't have to bail on those things. What are you looking to add with rods? You wouldn't have as compact of a set up but you could add something like this to get the rods in there: amzn.to/3DYxtEB

[@chuteinraw]

@@RobertMTeegarden I meant, in the future, thinking of getting follow focus and mattebox to complete the rig. So, I went with the rods and base plate.

[@DroseMr]

🎉! The Qr lock is somewhat adjustable . Im using falcam 38 . It would save alot of adapting and money if universal was universal and arca was arca 🎉 Thank You

[@AnthonyPham]

thanks for the video! I'm looking into this solution but all the rigs I'm seeing has the rod support on the bottom. if I'm not running a matte box...do I need those rods? Or is the smallrig compact vmount battery solution enough?

[@RobertMTeegarden]

You can run a matte box without rods. It would fit on the lens. You dont need rods unless you're attaching shit to them (focus rings etc.)

[@AnthonyPham]

@@RobertMTeegarden sweet! thank you! appreciate it!

[@KenTVtw]

my 90 degree v mount plate would get loose every ten twenty minute of use, did you have the same problem?

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Hey - Not yet with this one. The locking pin is pretty good so far.

[@LoudlabsNYC]

I want one!

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Get it!

[@bfholm]

Does the quickrelease plate on dji rs3 pro fit on the smallrig mount? Since both is from the side

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Honestly don't know. I've only owned Zhiyun.

[@DroseMr]

Cant remeber .falcam 38 is workin for me

[@sumimasn]

Hi Robert, would you know whether there a simple version of this so that i can just mount the V mount battery and still use my tripod with my Sony a7 iii (my screen is in the back of the camera body, and it only swings out behind and not sideways BTW and it looks like the Vmount battery may block my view of the screen) without having to buy the entire rig that you have? Thanks

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Maybe tilt the v-mount all the way down so you can still see the screen or use an external monitor when you need the extra battery?

[@davidbatbold]

Similar issue with my falcam cage and the v mount battery plate. But I fixed it by taping some gaff tape on the receiving baseplate so that the wiggle room is reduced and it's tightly locked in

[@RobertMTeegarden]

*Very thinly sliced gaff tape

[@davidbatbold]

Yeah, I used one of my 0.5 inch spike tapes and it worked wonders

[@Limitless.By.Design]

how did you do it? like on the smallrig bottom u put tape? i ordered the Cage and now i want this V-mount rig, and comments are saying its too loose.

[@davidbatbold]

@@Limitless.By.Design taped half inch gaff tape on the arca swiss receiving end of the v mount plate

[@david243121]

Do you ever use a follow focus? Which one and how do you mount it?

[@KobusGevelspar]

Just use the 15mm rods. He works with plates.

[@kerareyan]

Thanks Man!!!!!!!!!!

[@RobertMTeegarden]

So happy it was valuable, dude.

[@andrejcupac7359]

You don’t have to swap the cage. Just add a smallrig arca plate and screw it to the bottom of your existing cage. Only downside is that it’ll raise the camera slightly

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Ya, I know. The rig is already too tall for me so the extra few mm would drive me nuts.

[@JohnnyJayVisuals]

Could I use this for my bmpcc

[@RobertMTeegarden]

If your cage supports Arca plates, absolutely!

[@vividowlmedia]

You can adjust the clamp on the 4064 to get a tighter fit. I wish all arca plates were the same 😢

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Same! Thanks for watching!

[@majormauser]

This seems to be a common issue with Smallrigs ARCA Stuff. Arca plates seem to be the wild west when it comes to size. I would lean more to Kondor being correct in the standard, and that the SR QR needs to be fixed.

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Definitely would agree with you there.

[@calvin3000]

I can't use the [Peak Design Standard Plate] with the [Small Rig VMount Battery Plate], so I have to stack another [arca swiss mount] on top of the plate provided by smallrig. I just can't give up the Peak Design Capture when I am on the street.

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Stacks on Stacks, Calvin.

[@jason_barty]

All you need to do is unscrew and remove the locking arm from its little cog, then rotate it either clock or anti clockwise a few degrees to make it clamp tighter or looser depending on your needs, test and retighten. If you have a few arca plates find your widest and narrowest, then once it set to fit both of them, all your plate will fit. Be careful not to strip the small screw and the locking bar may need a good pull to remove it first time.

[@tomaszbejnarowicz]

could you also put nato rails on it? or its gonna be stupid move

[@RobertMTeegarden]

You could put whatever you'd like on it, my dude. What would be stupid about that? Do you have something to mount to the rails? Matte box? handle? Small minion?

[@-Ninel-]

On the SWIT-S140 battery does not fit on this product..it does not lock completely and falls off 😠..isn't it a standard for all?..forces me to buy batteries from SmallRig?..NOT normal.

[@ShervinShares]

i spy whoop on yo wrist hehe - also thx for this video. i'm buying one

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Whoop there it is, dude! It's great for the money. Love mine still.

[@airforce_lord]

Can you use this on a canon m50?😅

[@RobertMTeegarden]

Should be able to, yes

[@JwadeProductions7]

One thing that you won’t know till you get it in hand for a wild is the plate will hurt your hand after a few hours of work

[@rrjanik]

If anyone is curious it also will mount to the Tilta cages

[@shingvictor]

Same here curious if it will fit tilt a Zve1 cage

[@RobertMTeegarden]

The tilta ZVE1?

[@kerareyan]

¡Tengo la misma curiosidad! Por eso no he comprado la jaula y sigo buscando vídeos en KZbin.

[@shingvictor]

@@RobertMTeegarden tilta cage for Sony zv-e1

[@dxlton4762]

Any update on this working for tilts fx3 cage?

[@iComplainer]

this is a compact video. the full version is 21 hours long.