Tilta Float System Bottom Counterweight Bracket

Tilta redesigned the pendulum counterweight and it has a few major issues that make it nearly unusable. 1 - NOT FOR USE WITH BATTERY PLATES: It's clear the new pendulum is considered an alternative to batteries rather than an addition. You cannot easily connect this to the V-Mount battery plate provided on the Tilta Float. It would be inexpensive to include the small slide clamp connector that would make this possible, but Tilta doesn't and to my knowledge you cannot purchase it separately. A pendulum weight is very useful on a system like the Tilta float, so this is a strange lack of foresight on Tilta's part. 2 - POOR BALANCING: If you plan to use this instead of a battery plate know that you can only adjust the balance on a single axis, not on both front/back and right/left like you can on the battery plates. This makes it very hard, if not impossible to achieve a perfect balance on some, admittedly less common, camera/gimble setups. Again, if Tilta provided the clamp instead of the slide, you could connect this to the multi-directional slide already provided in the Float system. 3 - MAJOR DESIGN ERROR. Because Tilta created a push release mechanism for the pendulum (which serves no necessary purpose in my mind) there is a inch play between the pendulum and the walls that hold it. This means that the pendulum is constantly sliding from side to side changing your center of balance. This continuously throws off the balance of the Tilta float and subsequently affects the positioning of the gimble attached to it. In theory, you may be able to fix this with three or four small washers but friction between the washers and the walls may create its own problems. There are so many workarounds and jerry rigs required to make this product work as intended that I would recommend not buying it unless you have to. I have many Tilta products, and they are all well designed and really solid. This product was clearly rushed to production to meet demand. I suspect they will redesign it again.