Matthews Studio Equipment Grip Rail, Black Hyper-chrome Matthellini2, & Safer Gear Placement via Litemover & Air Climber - Newsshooter

Oct 18, 2024

Matthews Studio Equipment has introduced its new Grip Rail, Black Hyper-chrome Matthellini2, Litemover, and Air Climber all. All of these items are designed for holding, setting, or positioning lighting and other set equipment.

Multipurpose Grip Rail is being billed as the world’s first telescoping, adjustable grid pipe system. Billet aluminum strong and hard-anodized, Grip Rail makes it quick and easy to brace and hang camera and lighting rigs, backdrops, etc. It was designed to work with popular grid clamps, Matthellinis, and standard pipe fittings, Grip Rail is a no-cutting, alternative to complicated pipe organs.

Matthews has a new spin on their Matthellini Clamp, long known for solid gripping of round, square, or other shape rectangular tubing. The newly designed Black Hyper-chrome Matthellini2 maintains the oversized, spinning handle, but the handle now spins faster than its predecessor, making it quicker and easier to use. There is still the rugged steel shaft, and dual parallel jaws with one fixed, mounted at the base of the Baby Pin portion of the shaft. The updated hardware has been completely re-engineered and retooled for better functionality and enhanced durability. It is finished in black Hyper-chrome, and it is stronger, easier to handle and more low key.

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Matthews also has new adapters to make its Litemover universal remote head system compatible with a dozen fixtures. Now crews faced with positioning lights and reflector boards weighing up to 220-lbs./100 kilos, can use Litemover with lights including ARRI Skypanel, Skypanel X21, X22/X2, Orbiter, and Briklok. Plus there are adapters available for Cineo R15, Powerbeam, Creamsource Vortex, SumoLight SumoMax, K5600, Filmgear, and Fiilex Q10. Equally advantageous with reflectors, there are kits for Matthews Mirrors and CRLS. By cutting the need to climb high ladders to aim a light, Litemover can increase accessibility, adding to on set safety. It is the ideal companion for Matthews Air Climber modular grip and lighting stand that reaches 25 feet/7.62 meters and holds up to 200-lbs/90kg while also compacting for easy transport in a standard grip truck.

Matthews will be showing all of these products at NAB booth C6725 or you can see them online at www.msegrip.com

Matthew Allard is a multi-award-winning, ACS accredited freelance Director of Photography with over 30 years' of experience working in more than 50 countries around the world.He is the Editor of Newsshooter.com and has been writing on the site since 2010.Matthew has won 50 ACS Awards, including six prestigious Golden Tripods. In 2016 he won the Award for Best Cinematography at the 21st Asian Television Awards.Matthew is available to hire as a DP in Japan or for work anywhere else in the world.