Matte Box?

[avery]

Do they really help , and how? i might buy one from the Indie Snap DVX user sale website. i need to know hwat exactyl it does, the HD one to be specific

 

[macintosh]

You said your looking at the HD mattebox, did you mean to post this in the HVX section?

Anyways, a simple search will give you plenty of information on matteboxes.

Here are two links about The HVX and matteboxes: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=65597&highlight=Matte+Boxes

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=49740&highlight=Matte+Boxes

And heres a link to the indiesnap website which has information on their individual matte boxes: http://www.indiesnap.com/DVXuser/

Also feel free to browse the threads brought up by a search for "Matte Boxes" : http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/search.php?searchid=311079

Hopefully you'll find the information you are looking for.

 

[GageFX]

I have the IndieSnap HD mattebox for my DVX. What it does: flags off stray light, has two 4x4 filter holders and makes the DVX look really frickin impressive. To people who dont know anything about cameras, they will really think it is a completely different, much more expensive camera when you have the matte box on there. (Without the matte box on, I've actually had people ask me "Oh, you didnt want to use the expensive camera today?" or "bigger camera", or "better camera".) Of course, all of that is just an other people's perception thing and makes no diffrence in image quality, but whenyou show up to do a job and you have that matte box on the front, it's almost like at a wedding and the professional photographer shows up with his big Canon1Ds MkII with flash fracket and flash with diffuser on it and then he's standing next to Uncle Jim who has his Nikon Coolpix digicam. Perception goes a long way with percieved value and future jobs. (Of course your end product must be good, but even sometimes the perception of your impressiveness might even overweigh that.

I mentioned in another thread that I showed up to tape a friend's dance recital. I had the DVX on my big sticks and big head, had the HD matte box on the front, a Varizoom controller strapped to the tripod handle and had a 7" widescreen monitor clamped onto a leg of the tripod. The recital organizer came up to me to pay me for my services. I wasnt the guy hired to do the event, but there was me, or some guy with a little GL2 on a consumer tripod. I looked like the guy who would be getting the check.

And again, after all that, there is the flagging of light and the filter holders. It does have actual functionality.

-GageFX

 

[MiniMan]

It doesn't block much lens flare - you wouln't get much of that anyways. But it does help if you have a dirty or scratched up lens, it stops the ambient light from lighting up the dirt/scratches on the lens.

I have the Indiesnap, and I love it.

 

[KennyJay]

Great post Gage!