Recent content by Run&Gun

Obviously doesn’t make much sense to buy it just for that sole purpose, but if you already own it, for only $150(US) for a ready made bolt-on solution seems like the easiest and least expensive thing to do. Well, easiest at least. I don’t know what the used market is like for them. But it...

If you already own the EasyRig and it’s ’bought and paid for’, why sell it? Even if you just use it for that purpose, since that functionality is built-in, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Mine is native PL and I had the AbelCine eUMS mount conversion done after it became available and I can confirm that when the eUMS EF mount is on it, it does autofocus on Canon C series cameras that have that ability. I have a client that used to shoot a lot of Canon 300 series and my lens...

I think the market segment where it was originally aimed is definitely shrinking. But I could see a rebound of sorts, as those that are bailing out sell off their gear at fire-sale prices, those that have some spare cash can scoop up these higher-end pieces for not much more than entry level...

At least in the US the 17-120 was/is hugely popular. Literally an industry workhorse. They’re still built and available to buy brand new today, almost 11 years after being introduced. Although I would go to eBay, first, considering the used prices.

Iris ramp always seems to be the biggest knock that I see people give the 17-120 and why they preferred the 19-90 and I always used to just laugh, because the 17-120 is constant from 17-91mm, which is actually a larger range than the 19-90. You get a much more workable back-end. And we all...

To be fair, when the lens was designed and originally released, the 300/3 and EU-V2 may not have even been anywhere close to even being on the drawing board. Canon's main cine camera at that point (2014) was still the OG C300. The hirose cable on the grip is the ~same length as they are on...

I had a quick look around on eBay after my post and it was kind of crazy how inexpensive they can be found for. I have the eUMS system on my 17-120 and it was awesome, as I still shot a fair amount on EF mount cameras the first couple of years that I had it. If I recall, the eUMS system was...

It's still a workhorse in the industry, especially in the doc and sports doc world. But there are a lot of other lenses in that class, now, including the top-notch Canon 25-250 that has a built-in 1.5x extender/expander that allows it to cover "FF" and the newer Canon 15-120 w/1.5x...

I heard a very similar thing, that there is basically a warehouse full of unsold A35’s that have been more or less collecting dust. This seems like a reasonable plan to sell them with minimal effort/cost: Change the software, and swap out a black knob for a blue one. Many people seem to be...

2024 was a really good year. 2025 has been absolutely abysmal, so far. I do fly out tomorrow and start a week long job, but otherwise it’s scary how dead it is. Actually, dead would have been an improvement over what January was. In my 27+ years in the business, this was my worst January ever.

I’m a little surprised that they got it that low, ready to shoot. I was close, though. I originally said $45K-$50K, $60K ready to shoot and I said in another post that if they went with the CCM-1 instead of the MVF-2, that they could probably hit a $55K entry price, so I was ~$5K off. The...

I'll just say that what I was told, it was the same thing that happened to a lot of business, municipalities, and healthcare companies and organizations around those same couple of years.

Yeah, if my cameras came back from a cleaning looking like that, I'd be pissed, too. That first image... They should be absolutely ashamed to send a camera back to a customer in that condition.

The strikes and narrative/movie/streaming market contraction has hit them hard. I mean, everyone loves Arri, but the work just isn't there today. That's one of the reasons that they've really been pushing into the broadcast world. They have stacks of unsold cameras just sitting. And...