Titanium...

[Elsie N]

Wonder if you could get a Big Bertha Driver and machine a hole in the head so you could put a lens on it and.... no, probably not.

[Jon B.]

Is this the recommended mount for the RPPs? Owning a set, I know they are solid and heavy.

How does Epic's aluminum mount compare to RED ONE's PL?

[Sanjin Jukic]

Titanium PL mount is great! But I would like Sanjin to elaborate further on Leica lenses for
5K. I am very interested!

Milan,

to answer you that question I can only quote

Scottish lens designer Iain Neil* who designed Leica Summilux-C lenses:

“The other very big technical aspect, without getting into MTF,
is that these lenses were designed to perform extremely well
for not only 4K, but also 6K, 8K, and well beyond. Two major
things (besides distortion and a few other things) contribute to
picture quality when you talk about camera resolution like 2K,
4K and so on. One is contrast and the other is resolution. Most
cinematographers do lens tests by looking at a test chart that has
black and white bars. You can put up a Baltar, you know, a really
old lens from the 1950s, and you can say it’s a 4K lens. But there’s
a difference.“At whatever the resolution has to be for 4K, when you look at
the contrast, how black the black is, how white the white is, for
these black and white bars, when you measure it for a Baltar, you
might get only 30% contrast. You should get ideally 100%, but the
best you might hope for would be around 90% once you design
and build the lens. Lenses from 20 years ago, maybe you get 40 or
50%. And this can vary over the picture, from center to edges. The
point is, all these lenses are 4K. But then arguments go on over
contrast—it’s contrasty on axis, but not off…"


* Iain Neil is an international, multi-talented optical designer,
currently living in Lugano, Switzerland. He was born in Scotland,
graduated from Strathclyde University in Glasgow in 1977 with
a B.Sc. Honors degree in Applied Physics, awarded Alumnus of
the Year in 2003 and made Visiting Professor to the Department
of Physics in 2004. Along the way, he won more technical Oscars
than anyone else, and has been issued or applied for over 150
worldwide optically-related patents.
His association with Leica goes back over 30 years. He worked
for Barr & Stroud Ltd. Scotland (now a division of Thales), as
Head of Optical Design. The company had associations with Leitz
Wetzlar. He then was employed at Ernst Leitz Canada Ltd. (now
Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies Ltd.) as Manager, Systems
Engineering. Most cinematographers, of course, will remember
Iain from his eighteen years at Panavision Inc. as Executive
Vice President, Research & Development and Optics, and Chief
Technical Officer. At Panavision, his work included the design
and development of the Primo series of spherical and anamorphic
lenses, video systems, viewfinder optics, HDTV optical systems,
compound zoom lenses, and much more.

Film & Digital Times 32-33 issue, pages 36-37 >>>

[Raul Gonzo]

At what weight for lenses or temperature environments should this mount be needed?

[Curran Giddens]

Let me guess...

$2000 for the Titanium mount itself?
$1500 skip the standard PL and upgrade to Titanium?

Isn't the Red One Stainless Steel PL mount around ~ $1600?

[Vincent S]

Will Nikon & Canon mounts also be offered in titanium, aluminum and stainless?

[Jarred Land]

Milan, for the love of god.. Dont get Sanjin started!

Actually.. I'm interested too...

We tested a longer focal length Leica on the Epic.. and it covered the full 5k sensor.

Hi Jarred, I know its not the place for this question, but will we have the chance to see some fix scarlet footage soon. I know we are boring...and I know you work a lot but you mentioned this week and we are red freaks...sorry...but its your fault we became freaks ha,ha, ha...

Sorry man.. All focus is on Epic right now. We need to get Epic buttoned up and out the door, or there will be no Scarlet.

Which reminds me, have you gotten any attention from NASA yet? Epic seems to be the perfect space cam. :}

heh heh heh...

Let me guess...

$2000 for the Titanium mount itself?
$1500 skip the standard PL and upgrade to Titanium?

$1500 for the Stainless, $2500 for the Titanium.

[KETCH ROSSi]

We tested a longer focal length Leica on the Epic.. and it covered the full 5k sensor.

So Jarred does this means then when using the Epic-X and RPP 300mm for photography work, this new mount options will be a much safe situation were we don't have to really worry about support?

Also, sorry again, can we have it Anodized? Or will it only come in the Titanium Silver/Gray?

[Robert Frank]

$1500 for the Stainless, $2500 for the Titanium.

I'm such a gear junky that I started thinking about how I can get one of these even though I don't really need it.

[Jarred Land]

So Jarred does this means then when using the Epic-X and RPP 300mm for photography work, this new mount options will be a much safe situation were we don't have to really worry about support?

Also, sorry again, can we have it Anodized? Or will it only come in the Titanium Silver/Gray?

You should always support heavy lenses if you can. And yes.. it will come finished if you want.