Brevis35 Light and Current Shipping Times

T, the issue isn't design, it's performance. It's taken 13 months of R&D to get to our flip module in a form factor and with performance that professionals like yourself would approve of...without spending 10K.

Our market is like this:

- HV20 shooters with limited budgets who are happy to shoot inverted and use an HD external monitor.
- HVX200 run n gun shooters with mod'd onboard LCDs,
- HPX500 owner's wanting a high quality relay lens.
- XH-A1, HVX etc, etc, shooters on low to mid budget renting PL lenses and needing very high quality output. Most are shooting with onboard 7" and up LCD's and only care about a flip for external output.
- Pros like Phil Bloom who don't care about a flip (his HD250 does it for him) but want's smaller form factor and high light efficiency for use in natural light.

Just over half that list wants a flip, the other half don't care and would rather spend $1000 on an external HD monitor to evaluate focus...a significant challenge when shooting with adapters. That's why we've killed ourselves to offer the flip as an option...not a built in. At the Canon Pro Expo we just returned from, a $4000 production montitor (XH-G1 via SDI) was flipped over backwards on it's mount for a correct image...and no one noticed!
 
Dennis,

My rant wasn't directed towards you. Just flipping in general. I understand your demographic.

Adam
 
Well thanks for the clear reasons given :) I guess I really underestimated the amount of professionals out there that this would be a solution for. :) Good luck in further endeavors.

Damn just read the post and realized it sounds sarcastic. Just to clear up (no sarcasm intended) :)
 
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Dennis Wood said:
Just over half that list wants a flip, the other half don't care and would rather spend $1000 on an external HD monitor to evaluate focus...a significant challenge when shooting with adapters. That's why we've killed ourselves to offer the flip as an option...not a built in.
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Good points. Thanks Dennis.
 
Barry_Green said:
The "full frame" you're talking about is not a 35mm movie frame, it's something else. You should let people know it's both, because while some may feel the larger frame is a big advantage, others could end up being hosed because it wouldn't perform the way they'd be expecting. I'm of the opinion that a 35mm adapter for filmmakers should emulate what a 35mm film camera sees. But seeing as I'm the only guy I've ever seen complain about it, I guess it's not a big issue to anyone else!
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This "full frame" should (imo) be related to the lens used (SLR or film lenses like Zeiss). The field of view, perspective and DOF are about the same when a Zeiss 1.4/35 (the "normal") projects an image on an 18/24mm frame as a 1.4/50 (of any brand) does on a still frame size (24/36mm)
The whole idea of using SLR lenses was to make the "dream" affordable and accessible (price and availability of SLR vs film lenses).
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I'm of the opinion that a 35mm adapter for filmmakers should emulate what a 35mm film camera sees.
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And it does just that for LESS. Further more, wide lenses that would cost a fortune
in the film world are available for a lot less in the SLR land, providing the same image on twice as large frame. My2c.
 
Now if Leica R lenses (that don't breath a whole lot when focus racking) would be widely available with a non-indexed aperture ring, how many would ever use cinema lenses on 35mm adapters ? :-)
 
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