Matte Box on my Nikon Lens??

samhendi

samhendi

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Hi there, i have a quick question regarding a matte box.

I am wondering, will a matte box fit onto a Nikon 28mm or 50mm lens?

I have a Sony HVR-V1 camera and a letus35 extreme adapter with Nikon lenses attached on the front.

And if so, which matte box will be good to get for a good cheap price.
I was looking at these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Aluminum-Matte-...14&_trkparms=72:1234|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

http://thecinecity.com/tcc/product.php?productid=20&cat=0&page=1

Would they work on my Nikon Lenses?

Also, i was wondering if i did get a matte box, what would be the best way to cut out some of the bottom and top of the image.... for example... making my image have larger widescreen bars??

Thanks
 
Red Rock Micro has Matte Box bundles FOR D-SLRs on their website.
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Is this the only one that can fit on SLR lenses? Its quite pricy, will the links i supplied above work with the lenses??
 
Most matte boxes will work with your lenses... It doesn't matter if you are using a Letus, SGPro, M2, or anything else. What matters is that you are using rods beneath your camera. There are two standards - 15mm and 19mm. Most of us with 35mm DOF adapters are using the 15mm rods.

Try Cinevate, Redrock, or even indifocus - they all have matte boxes that will work for you. You do NOT need the DSLR package if you get the Redrock matte box - you just need the standard matte box package which costs about $650.

You can go cheaper than this, but you will be getting an inferior product, for sure. The Redrock is a great value.

The real question is, do you really need a matte box? Or do you just need a clip-on sunshade? They are far cheaper.
 
What matters is that you are using rods beneath your camera
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Hey, i think im using a 15mm rod system with my Letus35.

The redrock is too expensive i think.

do you really need a matte box? Or do you just need a clip-on sunshade?
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Well im not too sure exactly why i am getting one, my main reason is because i wanted to attach some black bars to the top and bottom of the matte box to cut out some of the image in order to make a wider aspect ratio. but im not too sure if this idea works??

I found a good priced matte box here:

http://www.indikit.com/product_info.php?cPath=45&products_id=221

would you say that this one could be good? does the 4:3 aspect ratio effect my image and convert from 16:9 to 4:3??... if it does, can i not change something on it to make it 16:9? the price seems to be very good for me.

or i might go for the cine city? except its more expensive than the indikit and weighs much more..

http://thecinecity.com/tcc/product.php?productid=20&cat=0&page=1

Is there any other cheaper but good ones out there??
Thanks for the help :)
 
Does your camera not shoot 16:9 anyway? Im Lost.

In regards to the mattebox, I would think any mattebox would work, with the right combination of risers, spacers or donut adapters. We use the same model mattebox (albeit two of them) on a Varicam, RED-One, XDCAMs, Video lenses, cine lenses, SLR lenses, Master Primes, all sorts.
 
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