SmallRigCage for Canon EOS R8 4212

I have a SmallRig GH5S cage that's great, so I bought this expecting to be just as satisfied. Unfortunately, this cage makes accessing both the battery/memory card and power switch much more difficult than it should be. It's solid otherwise though.

You have to screw in both sides of the cage with the supplied wrench and it will fit in the strap loop of the bony itself, making the cage a much secure 3 point fix array, plenty of 1/4 holes for accesories and a cold shoe, you cant ask for any better cage

If this was going to be a 5 star product there will need to be some changes made to the design of this. I use my R8 handheld and sometimes in a DJI RS3 gimbal. The direction that you must slide the frame into the DJI mount is backwards for the design of the RS3 gimbal, it forces you to remove the lower tilt arm just to slide the camera into the mount using the Arca swiss bottom of this cage, it is also too thick for the locking lever to completely close on the gimbal which may reduce your space to slide the camera all the way back to balance. I also use the R8 for streaming coaching sessions, where I use a dummy battery to keep constant power to the camera, the same issue would exist if you powered your rig with a v-mount battery, there is no room for the cable to exit the battery compartment and close all the way with frame on. Last gripe is that it is very difficult to reach the battery door with the frame on which sucks for use in all scenarios. Small-rig, you need to actually use the frame on the camera in the design process, this would be a fairly simple fix if there was a design change made to the lower right hand side of the frame to make room for better access to the battery compartment. Unfortunately I think I need to return this as it is more of pain to use my camera with this cage on it. I love your products but this one needs to go back to the drawing board.

I actually ordered this one by mistake (I needed the R6 version), but I have bought lots of SmallRig items recently and I really like all of them. My impression: High quality engineering and high quality parts and high quality machining. I love using all of my SmallRig stuff.