Equipment Protection Guide
Sony FX6 — Cases & Transport Protection
At roughly two pounds, the FX6 is one of the lightest true cinema bodies working — which is exactly why it ends up rigged everywhere and cased almost nowhere. Here is how owner-operators protect one, with 7 builds we already cut foam for.
- Compact full-frame body
- ≈2 lb / 0.9 kg
- 7 case builds
- Cage-on layouts
About this equipment
The Sony FX6 has become the owner-operator's cinema camera: a full-frame body light enough for any gimbal and small enough to rig into places bigger cameras cannot go. Cinematographers describe keeping a personal FX6 in the kit specifically for rigging and gimbal work, and it shows up on lists of the smallest true cinema bodies alongside the FX3 and KOMODO. Its published weight — about 2 lb / 0.9 kg — is a big part of why.
That rigging life is the transport problem. FX6s travel built: Tilta or SmallRig cage, top handle, monitor mount, often the XLR handle and grip. A camera that gets rebuilt every shoot day loses time and wears threads, so our layouts cut the cavity for the built camera — including fully-built builds in Pelican and Storm shells sized for the cage-on footprint.
Choose protection by workflow
Occasional moves, vehicle transport: foam inserts and padded protection in a case you own.
Travel and carry-on workflows: compact hard-shell builds sized to airline limits.
Constant shipping: ATA shells, modular replaceable foam, fleet-matched layouts.
Purpose-built around your exact package and workflow.
Start a custom project →Cases built for this equipment
SONY FX6 KIT
Sony FX6 Camera Pelican (custom foam for 1637)
Sony FX6 (fully built) Case. Foam insert in Pelican 1610
Sony FX6 Camera Case
Sony FX6 (fully built with Tilta cage) in IM2600
Sony FX6 (fully built with Tilta cage) Version 2 IM2600
FX6 Camera Case in Pelican 1607
Transport knowledge
The screen, the XLR handle mount, and cage-mounted accessories that lever against their mounting points in soft bags. A cavity cut to the built camera supports the rig as one object — nothing levers, nothing grinds.
An FX6 kit is carry-on-able if the case is: compact shells sized to airline limits, batteries top-of-foam for security pulls, media in its own pocket. If your FX6 flies weekly, say so — the layout changes.
FX6s often work as B and C cameras beside bigger bodies. Matched case layouts across the package mean any tech packs any camera right — the fleet principle, scaled down.
Where to buy the equipment
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Frequently asked questions
Yes — the fully-built layouts are cut for cage-on footprints, including Tilta cage configurations. Tell us your exact build and the cavity matches it.
The kit builds carry body plus glass, batteries, and media in their own cavities. If your kit differs from a catalog build, request a quote and we adapt the layout.
Builds shown here are made to order and typically ship in 7–10 business days. New layouts are quoted per project.
Related equipment
Equipment context referenced from: Film and Digital Times — DJI RS 5 · Film and Digital Times — Abraham Martinez on Optimo Primes and The Lincoln Lawyer. Case and foam guidance is Innerspace Cases’ own.
Multi-unit and matched case sets are what we build best — one engineered layout, every case identical, re-orderable for years.
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