The new Wooden Camera Elite Accessory System for the Canon EOS C80 has some interesting new designs in its armoury.
Cometh the new camera, cometh the Wooden Camera accessories. No sooner had Canon announced the EOS C80 than Wooden Camera released its Elite Accessory System for the new device.
The collection includes Gold and V-Mount Battery Slide power options, a Core Accessory System allowing users to use the native Canon Carry Handle, and à la carte accessories for users to build their own system.
Wooden Camera says that what makes this collection unique is the combination of the 2-piece Top Plate, a C80-specific ARCA Riser Plate, the new design on the NATO Side Rail, and the Canon ¼”-20 Ridge Plate.
The new Top Plate design allows removal of the back portion, enabling hot shoe use with the Wooden Camera Top Plate. The back portion provides a secondary connection for securing the Top Plate on the Canon EOS C80 when not using the hot shoe. A battery slide connection point was added for rod-less power options.
The ARCA Riser Plate matches the camera's body design and enhances connectivity for different lens mounts. It includes a lens support rod for stability and a battery slide mounting point for alternative setups.
The redesigned NATO Side Rail features an HDMI safety clamp and a Tape Hook mounting point. It retains ⅜"-16 and ¼"-20 mounting points along the rail for additional accessories on the Operator's side. And the Canon ¼"-20 Ridge Plate is designed for using the Canon EOS C80 Carry Handle with Wooden Camera accessories. Its multi-directional mounting capability allows for various accessory configurations.
“Because we work closely with Canon, and the fact that we can leverage existing designs, improving upon them to work with this new camera– we were able to turn this collection around quickly,” says Dominick Aiello, Senior Director of Accessories at Creative Solutions. “The modular nature of our designs ensures that most times, minor tweaks to design allow us to get our accessories to market quicker.”
The whole system comes in at $1799, while users can build up their own from the core components from $799.