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Congratulations to your decision of purchasing or renting your PANTHER Multiglider. 
We are pleased that you made your decision in favor of a Slider from Panther, which 
combines state-of-the-art technology and many years of experience in 
manufacturing camera support equipment. 
Selected materials, know-how and an innovative design ensure that in practice you 
have a wide variety of possibilities, which you will appreciate during shooting. 
Your new PANTHER Multiglider is a high-quality tool giving the creative 
cameraman the means for camera shots and drives, which could so far only be 
realized with great efforts or not at all. 
The PANTHER Multiglider is a slider developed by specialists for specialists in order 
to meet the expectations of every cameraman or grip. 
To ensure that you will love working with your PANTHER Multiglider and that 
all requirements during shooting can be fulfilled considering utmost safety and 
reliability, please carefully read this operation manual. 
 
With our best wishes 
 
 
 
Andy Fitz 
Panther GmbH 

 

 

Summary of Contents for Multiglider

Page 1: ...1 I n s t r u c t i o n M a n u a l Panther Multiglider ...

Page 2: ...will appreciate during shooting Your new PANTHER Multiglider is a high quality tool giving the creative cameraman the means for camera shots and drives which could so far only be realized with great efforts or not at all The PANTHER Multiglider is a slider developed by specialists for specialists in order to meet the expectations of every cameraman or grip To ensure that you will love working with...

Page 3: ...ore tilting loading or positioning the Multiglider Always secure against unintended movements In order to increase the stability put footprint of tripod in its widest configuration 5 Attention do not use the Multiglider on inclined planes or in vehicles By means of brakes the Multiglider Sledge has to be secured against unintended movements Make sure that substructure e g tripod is strong enough t...

Page 4: ...ra Mount 2 Sliding Camera Mount 75 100 or 150mm bowl alternatively Mitchell Plate 7 Tilt Brake for Camera Mount 3 Central Pivot Section 8 Brake Disc for Multiglider Rail 4 Sliding Counter weight sledge 9 Tilt Brake for Multiglider Rail 5 Tripod substructure 10 Pan Brake ...

Page 5: ...e Add or remove counterweights on counter weight sledge if necessary The weights are available in different sizes width for best adjustment Both units are perfectly adjusted if loaded sledge is not moving when rail is in vertical or diagonal position Set Up Adjust tripod to requested height and se cure safely Dismount Fluid Head if mounted and put central pivot section of Multiglider on top of tri...

Page 6: ...s Place camera with all accessories onto Fluid Head Add or remove counterweights on counter weight sledge if necessary The weights are available in different sizes width for best balance Secure with supplied nuts Both units are perfectly adjusted bal anced if loaded sledge is not moving brake open when rail is in vertical or diagonal position Diagonal Shootings Place rail in requested diagonal pos...

Page 7: ...Mount parallelogram rod first to camera mount later to central pivot section A Horizontal levelled operation B Pre tilted operation Mount parallelogram rod conclusive if camera should be horizontal while tilting Mutiglider Mount parallelogram rod not conclusive if camera should tilt while tilting Multiglider Always support weight of camera while ad justing parallelogram rod Always support weight o...

Page 8: ...ook levelling foot into t groove and secure with knob Levelling feet can be equipped with levelling foot or 16mm tubes 16mm tubes can be combined with suction cups in order to place Multiglider onto e g car hood Operation on Floor Mount 4 levelling feet into T grooves and level the spindles ...

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