Here's a short clip that shows my current setup, shot the other night as my Irish buddy came over with a few bottles of Guinness -- I'm shooting with his 5d2 while he's molesting my camera rig:
http://www.vimeo.com/22482523
(and yes, it's a parody of Jessica's manhandling of my old setup ;^)...
I just replaced my old crappy follow focus with a nice Redrock Micro unit: http://tinyurl.com/252u5cm
So I thought a good way to test & exercise this ff-unit would be to use it with my most Doffy lens -- an old 85mm f/1.4 Carl Zeiss, and shoot with it wide open. Hence, the Depth of Field...
I would like to lock together some lens/filter/lens securely, but yet make it possible to unlock (hence, glue is out of the question). Is there any filter rings, or some sort of adaptors, that has a locking feature like this for a normal filter thread?
Any help or pointers appreciated.
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I few years ago I shot a 2 hour theater play (using at the time a high-end Canon XL2). I ended up shooting the footage from two different performances and at radically different locations -- so there will be quite a bit of editing to put this thing together (5 hours of footage, including...
As a kid I always thought "exaggeration" was a bad word that only my parents and teachers wanted to punish me with. Yet, this bad virtue ended up being my (scarcely) livelihood (music related) and also brought me a few photo/film jobs -- the latest one I even used my dear 5D rig...
Earlier I was asked about my camera rig and what it comprises. Since I finally caved in and got me a Zacuto Z-Finder (a very very nice device, by the way) I thought I might as well show & tell the other parts of the camera too.
I've modified and/or built a few components of this setup myself...