Affordable Filmmaking: SmallRig NP-F Battery Adapter Plate Lite | Product Unboxing & Overview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Unboxing and brief look around the affordable SmallRig NP-F Battery Adapter Plate Lite Version. This can be a great lightweight solution for your camera rig.
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Video Transcription:
Today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of the small rig and battery plate. So here is the little box. Really simple. Let's go ahead and open this. So inside the box, we get a little baggie here and we get our Allen tool, I guess, to tighten up these screws. And we get two small quarter, 20 screws included.
Let's put this aside for a second and then going in more, we get our NPA plate here and this is how it looks like. Okay. So right off the bat it has like a kind of a set and finish to it and it's kind of like a in the pictures. It kind of looks like it's made out of aluminum, but it's just made out of plastic.
The reason why I got this is because it has an output for 12 volts and it has an outvote output on the other side for 7.4 volts, you get a 7.4 and you get a 12 volt. And another thing about the 12 volt is it's really convenient because the batteries actually only output 7.4 volts. So this little box here actually steps up the voltage so you can power your camera or any other accessories that take 12 volts and that 7.4, you get another quarter 20 locking bolt.
If you want to rig something different, you have the option for these two smaller bolts. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is going to just plug in an AMP battery that I have lying around. Okay. So once I plug it in, you can see we get a green light. And I did read in the description that you'll get a green light.
And then once your battery starts to go down, you'll get a red light so that it's a little bit of an indicator as to when your battery is about to go out. So that's kind of convenient. So you kind of know when you're filming, they're like, Oh, I better change batteries pretty soon. So that's kind of nice. And on the back here has like a little locking pin where you have to if you want to take out the battery, you have to press it in a little bit and kind of pry the the battery right off it.
That's kind of nice. So, you know, that it's going to be securely snug in here and it won't like shake off or anything. I'm going to go ahead and test out how this battery plate works here. I have a DC connector to 2.5 to 2.5, and I'm going to power one of my camera monitors with it. So first, let's connect our battery here and we're getting our green light, meaning we have power.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and connect this here to the 12 volt socket here and then here. I should have power. Now, going towards this connector on the back side of my monitor, it says that it needs a DC 12 volt input in order to be powered on. So we're going to go ahead and see if it works.
So we see on my monitor, I have a light here, so now I can go ahead and turn on my main monitor with my battery pack. Here, have a camera plate, a cheese plate that you would find on most cameras, like just the whole alignment. And we're going to see if our battery plate by small rig is going to mount pretty good on this.
So you just tighten it and then you just put this down and you hide the screw. And then now I'm rigged, basically, and I just get my battery and then it's not going anywhere. So that's one way of reading it. In order to take any of the screws off, it seems like you have to thread it through this one bigger end of the slot here, which is kind of convenient so that if you like, tip it over or something, you're not going to lose your screw.
This one's a little bit more difficult to put in and now these can stay inside here and they won't come out any more.
All right. There we go. Now we see our plate doesn't even want to twist its very snug and you know, it still accommodates the battery pretty well. Thank you for watching.
I purchased an Andycine plate because I needed more power outputs. The Andycine plate has PD-In, PD-Out, USB C, and D-Tap. I needed either PD-Out or D-Tap for my LED light, along with USB for the camera. It works well with the exception of being very difficult to remove the battery from the plate. Oh Yeah, I'm a big fan of SmallRig but I think their plate needs more power options.
Usb c converter?
hey man. have you tried to power a monitor and a camera via dummy battery at the same time? from both the 7.4v and the 12v ports?
I believe I have, but I can make video on it to confirm (:
@@kilobytedigital nice! Please do! I wanna see before I consider getting one haha thanks man!
I have, my Bestway 7" 4K monitor powers from both the 7.4 & 12v ports