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mr bill

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Just got my jag d-focus and mount/rods. Beautifully made for the money and with no discernible backlash, I would recommend this setup to anybody looking for a follow focus and rails for for their 60D (no affiliation).
 
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mr bill said:
Just got my jag d-focus and mount/rods. Beautifully made for the money and with no discernible backlash, I would recommend this setup to anybody looking for a follow focus and rails for for their 60D (no affiliation).
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are u using their gears or a different company's gears? I hear the dfocos gears arent so good.
 
I've been using the D|Focus for close to a year for music videos and TV spots. I was thinking it was a stop gap before I got a RedRock, but it's worked fine. It requires a rod mount or their "DSLR" mount. Really a decent unit, little backlash, and you can use those cheap spring-steel paperclip things as focus stops - those work so fabulously well that I'd use 'em on a hollywood set.

It takes cine pitch gears - I'm using Jag gears and Redrock gears.

Niether of these are "perfect" gears - the Jag gears are sized by snapping screws into the gear; this works decently, and there's enough give that one "setup" of screws works on two or three of my primes; I have a RedRock gear which works well, but each redrock gear is very limited in size range. (the only "perfect" gear would be the built-in gears on a cinema lens though...)

My advice would be to go ahead and get tow or three gears with the Jag (they charge ten bucks a gear SHIPPING if you buy them later - buy three at ONE TIME and it's 30 bucks - ripoff). You can get one, but it takes several minutes to switch the screws for sizing, not something you want to do when working quickly or outdoors (Where dropping a screw would leave you... screwed).

ONE ADDITIONAL EDIT: it's hard to set the Jag to where the "pressure" against the gear is just right - too tight and it has a grinding feel; you have to slide it into place, and then sort of push up on it to get it where you want it - then tighten the bottom thumbscrew. Once you get used to that it's no-brainer, but when you loosen it to slide it around your rods, it sort of flops away from the lens, and it's easy to get it too tight. I doubt that will damage anything, but it goes from very smooth to feeling like there's sand in it.
 
Much sense in Michael's advice. I bought three jag gears same time as the rest. I'm having no problems with them, although as Michael says, don't ram the gears together too tightly. It's very lightweight but solidly made.
 
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