Chakra Wheel Grip Handle (ARRI Rosette)
Description
Mounting anywhere you can fit an ARRI rosette, our Chakra Wheel Grip Handle gives you a textured round grip for shooting. Comfortable to touch but sturdy enough to grip, the Chakra is great to have in your camera bag – just in case.
For the same reason you keep a spare tire in your car, keep a Chakra Wheel Grip Handle in your camera bag. If something crucial breaks and you resort to operating your camera by hand, make sure that hand is comfortable. Mounting seamlessly to standard ARRI rosettes, the textured rubber grip sits snugly in the palm of your hand without adding to the weight of your rig.
Well-Rounded
Why choose a Wheel Grip over a standard top handle, or our KASBAH Hand Grips? The Chakra is a more versatile option: where a Hand Grip tends to sit to the side of your rig, and a top handle (unsurprisingly) goes on top; a Wheel Grip can do both, or neither. Add a Chakra anywhere: as a rear handle block for stable pans, a side handle for handheld shooting, or on a wireless monitor to stop the Director complaining.
Rosette Rigging
This variant of the Chakra grips mounts to standard ARRI rosettes, with no tools needed to attach it. Our rosettes are precision-stamped and CNC-machined from stainless steel, for long-lasting and accurate rigging. Since the Chakra is a round grip, there’s no “right way up”, but precise adjustment takes seconds if you get bothered by the text being not quite upright.
Textured Grip
Most round grips like these either have too little rubber, or no rubber at all – and nobody likes gripping cold metal for hours at a time. The Chakra Grips have a decent depth to them: so they contour to your hands just enough, but still feel firm to grip. The notches edges add an extra degree of security: stopping your hand from twisting - or worse, blistering.
Built to (Out)last
Pulling off a Chazelle-style whip-pan? The Chakra Grip can handle the torque. The Wheel Grip is made from the sort of aluminium they fire into space: with dedicated cutouts to reduce weight without compromising on strength. The Chakra will keep stay strong through clammy hands and clumsy pans.
Part of the Chakra System
The name of our Wheel Grips has more in common with a yoga studio than a film studio. “Chakra” is a Sanskrit word that translates to “wheel”. But if you’re looking stability, durability and reliability on your next set; then make sure your own Chakra is aligned.
1. Align the Chakra Grip with a compatible ARRI rosette.
2. Use the winged-lever clamp to tighten the two rosettes together.
| Weight | 0.256 kg |
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| Dimensions | 5.1 x 10 x 10 cm |