Canon LTM New IVsb2 -- to trigger wind or not?

[Vince Lupo]

If the grips you are thinking of are like the ones I have seen I do not much like them. They are a large (ish) knurled metal cylinder which screws into the tripod mounting screw hole in the base plate and project well below the camera. To me this makes it ungainly (e.g. you cannot sit the camera down on its base with this mounted) and I think the trigger wind base is in any event perfectly usable without it. I thus believe that if it were me I would find myself leaving the "grip" behind on a day to day basis and it would become yet another piece of little used camera equipment in my drawer (one of many). You will no doubt understand from my answer that I fully understand the impulse you are feeling to buy the full kit of gear and have often succumbed to this myself. Other than this I can sadly give no advice as this is one impulse to buy I have not succumbed to.

Peter you might just be right! What of course I'll likely do is try the camera without it before making any kind of subsequent purchase.

Believe it or not, this would be my one and only film camera -- let's just hope it stays that way

 

[Vince Lupo]

Hi Vince, I’ve got one of the later grips for the VT cameras. Instead of the pins it uses the straight corners of the camera to hold it in place on the VT camera. I’ve also got an earlier trigger winder like yours, while it does screw in place solidly, because the pins aren’t there, the knurled grip can easily spin around which may be annoying when using it, however the bottom part of the grip still stays stationary because that’s the part you used to screw it into the camera. So it would work but not ideal. I hope my description makes sense.
Nathan

Nathan, many thanks for that info! Yes I completely understand -- if I decide to pull the trigger (yes I know that was bad!) on the KEH grip, at least I would have time to try it out and see how annoying it might be (and return it within their window of time if I didn't like it). Otherwise I might just keep my eyes out for the right grip, as it sounds like the one with the pins is the better choice.

Deeply appreciated!