Adam_Levins
Active member
Hi All,
I have to say it is so cool to have this resorce to get help and tips!!!
I have recently bought a Redrock M2 and used it with the PL mount and a set of Ziess primes.
I found that since the circle of ilumination on the cine lenses is smaller than that on still lenses, its a bugger to get rid of the soft edges.
With the cine lenses the HVX jumps out of macro mode when you zoom past the soft edges at least on the wider lenses making it imposible to get a the close focus required by the M2.
So I have now bought a set of Nikons and plan to get the redrock follow focus to complement this.
My question is, the lens gears that come wih the package do not seem to have smoth run all the way arround. while this may work fine for the Nikons as they have a short focus run I also plan to buy the Size D 32 Pitch for use on the HVX alone.
Does this not cause a problem as the focus ring will need to run round a couple of times to cover the complete focus range of the "on camera lens"?
After my first project with the M2 I feel that the look is good for some projects but plan also to use the follow focus with the camera alone as the soft image really provides a special look. i wonder if Redrock can't make a totally clean spinning disk as i would like the shallow DOF but not the film grain effect and promist look provided by the current disk.
I hope that there is someway to work this out as I think Redrock are a great company with a good product.
On a side note I should mention that when prepping the camera package at Panavision here in the UK, we found thet the Spinning dick was not set right to hit the focus marks on the prime lenses (and also on the nikons) so we had to move it. This took about 4 hours of trial and error adjustment (using laser equiptment) and the guys at Panvision did a fantastic job... just so helpfull, can't say enough really!!
Thanks in advance for you advice.
Cheers,
Adam
www.levinspictures.com
I have to say it is so cool to have this resorce to get help and tips!!!
I have recently bought a Redrock M2 and used it with the PL mount and a set of Ziess primes.
I found that since the circle of ilumination on the cine lenses is smaller than that on still lenses, its a bugger to get rid of the soft edges.
With the cine lenses the HVX jumps out of macro mode when you zoom past the soft edges at least on the wider lenses making it imposible to get a the close focus required by the M2.
So I have now bought a set of Nikons and plan to get the redrock follow focus to complement this.
My question is, the lens gears that come wih the package do not seem to have smoth run all the way arround. while this may work fine for the Nikons as they have a short focus run I also plan to buy the Size D 32 Pitch for use on the HVX alone.
Does this not cause a problem as the focus ring will need to run round a couple of times to cover the complete focus range of the "on camera lens"?
After my first project with the M2 I feel that the look is good for some projects but plan also to use the follow focus with the camera alone as the soft image really provides a special look. i wonder if Redrock can't make a totally clean spinning disk as i would like the shallow DOF but not the film grain effect and promist look provided by the current disk.
I hope that there is someway to work this out as I think Redrock are a great company with a good product.
On a side note I should mention that when prepping the camera package at Panavision here in the UK, we found thet the Spinning dick was not set right to hit the focus marks on the prime lenses (and also on the nikons) so we had to move it. This took about 4 hours of trial and error adjustment (using laser equiptment) and the guys at Panvision did a fantastic job... just so helpfull, can't say enough really!!
Thanks in advance for you advice.
Cheers,
Adam
www.levinspictures.com
