Custom cinema lenses

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Cinedslr

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Hi,
I want to convert some of my photo lenses in cinema lenses.
I'm looking for web sites offering that kind of service (cine gear ring, Canon EF mount conversion, 80mm front cap...)

Here is my list:
-Duclos Lenses
-RP Lens
-http://www.jbkcinequipt.com

Have you ever heard good things about those three web sites ? What do you think about cine gear ring from JBKcinequipt ? Do you know other companies ?

Thanks a lot.

Best Regards.
 
Cinedslr said:
Hi,
I want to convert some of my photo lenses in cinema lenses.
I'm looking for web sites offering that kind of service (cine gear ring, Canon EF mount conversion, 80mm front cap...)

Here is my list:
-Duclos Lenses
-RP Lens
-http://www.jbkcinequipt.com

Have you ever heard good things about those three web sites ? What do you think about cine gear ring from JBKcinequipt ? Do you know other companies ?

Thanks a lot.

Best Regards.
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Duclose does a great job. However, simply putting a geared lens ring, and declicking an iris does not make a photography lens a cinema lens. Not by a long shot. You are converting a photography lens into a photography lens with some benefits for shootiing video.

Photography lenses are designed and built for photography. Without changing the actual lens design, lens housing, and mechanics, the lens will never be a cinema lens. It will just have one or two attributes more similar than it had before.

Putting performance exhaust and performance tires on my Buick doesn't make it a race car.
 
Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
Duclose does a great job. However, simply putting a geared lens ring, and declicking an iris does not make a photography lens a cinema lens. Not by a long shot. You are converting a photography lens into a photography lens with some benefits for shootiing video.

Photography lenses are designed and built for photography. Without changing the actual lens design, lens housing, and mechanics, the lens will never be a cinema lens. It will just have one or two attributes more similar than it had before.

Putting performance exhaust and performance tires on my Buick doesn't make it a race car.
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Ryan,

thank you for your comment, but that was not really my question. I'm a camera assistant, I know what is a real cinema lens.

Best regards.
 
Focus Optics does most of my lens work, including focus gears.

I then install Cordvision 80mm hard fronts and Kaiser 80mm lens caps.
 
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Cinedslr said:
Hi,
I want to convert some of my photo lenses in cinema lenses.
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Sorry for misunderstanding this sentence. English is your second language, so I suppose we can all get a pass.

Email Duclos. They are top notch. If they can't or won't do it, they can at least point you in a direction.

thanks Cine-DSLR.
 
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