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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today
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to talk to you about one of my favorite
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everyday things and that is Peak
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Design's field plates. I originally did
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a review of the capture clip many years
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ago and while I didn't always use the
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capture clip itself, I fell in love with
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the field plates and I began to use them
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on all of my cameras all of the time.
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Makes it easy to do two important
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things. either attach a strap or go
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right to a tripod because the plates
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themselves are ARC compatible and
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they're very low profile so they don't
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add a lot of bulk to my cameras.
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However, one serious downside and that
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is that the plates always required
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having an Allen key to remove them and
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so that made a serious complication
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particularly if it was the type of
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camera that had the memory card area or
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battery down an area that might be
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affected by having the capture plate on.
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Fortunately, Peak Design has redesigned
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the field plate and they have solved the
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biggest problem with it. And so now,
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because of the new design, it has
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incorporated a great ability where you
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can put a lot of torque on there and
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actually tighten it down properly while
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still having what I love in terms of the
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attach points. And so I can add on their
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anchors. And so I can easily go to
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either a a strap like this or go to a
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tripod even in one-handed operation. As
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you can see here, the new fuel plates,
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they do exactly what I wanted them to
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do. And this is such a huge upgrade for
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just everyday realworld use. And the
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good news is that while Peak Design
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stuff does tend to be expensive, these
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are fairly reasonable. You can get it
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for under 40 bucks. And it makes a big
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difference to your everyday workflow. As
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soon as I saw that they had redesigned
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them, I immediately had to put an order
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in to get some of these. And they will
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go on all of my cameras. I find them
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indispensable, and I suspect that you
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will, too. Check out the link in the
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description down below.
