I'd like to mount a nato rail on my sigma fp

docmaas wrote:

There is one on an attachment at the far left of the camera:

My goal was to add one to keep a 5" atomos monitor centered without the overhead of a cage. I use the camera for photography not video, Unfortunately the sigma fp has no moveable lcd so shots from low angles are much more difficult.

Putting a cage on the camera adds a lot of bulk and there are no arca-swiss compatible rails on the bottom of the cages so that adds yet another layer of bulk to the package.

I would say that the Smallrig cage adds very little bulk. It really is very minimal and light, and it includes a cold shoe. I haven't tried adding a rail, but I am sure it would work. However, there are lots of threaded holes on the top of the rig.

How does the monitor attach ? Is there a male bolt at the bottom to go directly into the hole in the little rail that you illustrate ?

As usual kiss ("keep it simple stupid") is far from kiss in the end.

Here is what I'm trying to mount:

which fits nicely between the cine-still button and the movie button on the top of the camera. It's the shortest rail I could find and anything longer won't work for this application.

This shoe mounted rail might do. It looks like the shoe fitting could be moved to the end of the rail and it would then extend horizontally to nearly the middle of the camera. Not sure if it would obstruct the power, cine-still and movie switches or not but probably not:

Thanks for the suggestion. Uh-oh everyone is out of stock until March.

At this point I'm continuing to look for a stick-on solution but an fp cage may be my last hope.

Mike

Jeffry7 wrote:

Is there a hot shoe?

https://suggestionofmotion.com/blog/smallrig-nato-rail-shoe-mount-review/

There are lots of NATO rail hot shoe adapters.