OConnor/ Anton Bauer AND Scarlet!!!

[Eric J. Johnston]

Hi Everyone,

At the end of last year our friends at RED were kind enough to invite us down to their studios for the opportunity to build up a Scarlet prior to its shipping; and this is what we ended up with! What’s interesting is that this is a completely OConnor outfitted camera package (with a little help from our friends at Anton Bauer and RED of course.) This build includes the following:

O-Box WM Mattebox (with 2nd LWS bracket added to the top for follow focus mounting)

O-Grip Handgrip System (attached to mattebox for grips and the top plate as a centered carry handle)

CFF-1 Follow Focus (top mounted upside-down from mattebox with friction gear)

NEW O-Focus DM Photo Set Follow Focus (friction gear interface to the Canon L prime lens)

Anton Bauer Matrix Plate (19mm studio rod supported with Epic/ Scarlet QRC Gold Mount power cable)

Anton Bauer Dionic HC Battery

And it’s all sitting atop the NEW 1030DS Fluid Head and Carbon Fiber 30L Tripod!

A short video can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwOCONcom?feature=playlist-comment

Thank you to everyone at RED who made this happen!

Any questions feel free to ask…either on the boards or email me directly at the address below (I don’t often check my PM’s here.)

 

[Adam Michael Carr]

Eric,
I'm very interested in this setup. With the O-Focus and the O-Box mounted on the Scarlet, do I need a riser?

 

[Julio Quintana]

That's a nice rig.

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Hi Adam,

With 15mm LWS rods NO you do not need an adapter for either the O-Focus or O-Box (they both are native 15mm LWS brackets.)

With 15MM Studio or 19mm Studio rods (as shown) you need an adapter. My suggestion is the Abel Cine AB-1519 Universal Rod Adapter which is what I used and are shown in the video. This adapter raises the height of the O-Focus so it lines up better with the lens barrel (since it is a direct drive, i.e. no swing arm and centers the O-Box to the correct optical axis of the lens. )
Hope this helps…

 

[Adam Michael Carr]

Hi Adam,

With 15mm LWS rods NO you do not need an adapter for either the O-Focus or O-Box (they both are native 15mm LWS brackets.)

With 15MM Studio or 19mm Studio rods (as shown) you need an adapter. My suggestion is the Abel Cine AB-1519 Universal Rod Adapter which is what I used and are shown in the video. This adapter raises the height of the O-Focus so it lines up better with the lens barrel (since it is a direct drive, i.e. no swing arm and centers the O-Box to the correct optical axis of the lens. )
Hope this helps…

Thanks for the info Eric. I'll check it out.

 

[Cid J Salcido Uyarra]

wurd the O-Focus DM looks sicks!!! gonna have a hard time deciding on a follow focus now. So many options have popped up in the past year.

Been sold on the O-Box looking forward to picking one up =)

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Thanks-

I have been using an O-Focus Photo set with my Canon L lenses and I love it! With so many copies of copies of copies out there for a single sided FF it made sense to offer a unique and innovative double sided solution for both photo and cine lenses.

We now offer 3 follow focus choices from OConnor:

CFF-1 1:1.88 Transmission Ratio (Same as FF-4 for reference)

O-Focus DM Cine Set 1:1.44 Transmission Ratio

O-Focus DM Photo 1:0.75 Transmission Ratio (Provides for an expanded focus scale on short throw lenses)

We will be doing an official announcement soon on the two new FF units (just trying to build up stock to meet the demand but they are available in limited quantities now!)

 

[Cid J Salcido Uyarra]

ok just did my research I'm pretty much sold on the O-focus

been looking at the Letus and RRM Blue but I'd rather save up the extra dough and go this route.

You guys are coming from the cinema angle v the 35mm adapter angle. You guys know what you're doing.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Hi Everyone,

At the end of last year our friends at RED were kind enough to invite us down to their studios for the opportunity to build up a Scarlet prior to its shipping; and this is what we ended up with! What’s interesting is that this is a completely OConnor outfitted camera package (with a little help from our friends at Anton Bauer and RED of course.) This build includes the following:

O-Box WM Mattebox (with 2nd LWS bracket added to the top for follow focus mounting)

O-Grip Handgrip System (attached to mattebox for grips and the top plate as a centered carry handle)

CFF-1 Follow Focus (top mounted upside-down from mattebox with friction gear)

NEW O-Focus DM Photo Set Follow Focus (friction gear interface to the Canon L prime lens)

Anton Bauer Matrix Plate (19mm studio rod supported with Epic/ Scarlet QRC Gold Mount power cable)

Anton Bauer Dionic HC Battery

And it’s all sitting atop the NEW 1030DS Fluid Head and Carbon Fiber 30L Tripod!

A short video can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwOCONcom?feature=playlist-comment

Thank you to everyone at RED who made this happen!

Any questions feel free to ask…either on the boards or email me directly at the address below (I don’t often check my PM’s here.)

Amazing OConnor-Scarlet-X rig!!!!!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Sorry... I just had to adjust the levels...

 

[Mike Halper]

With the O-Focus and the O-Box mounted on the Scarlet, do I need a riser?

With 15mm LWS rods NO you do not need an adapter for either the O-Focus or O-Box (they both are native 15mm LWS brackets.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for Epic and Scarlet you would need something like the Red DSMC Modular Assault Plate Pack, Wooden Camera Easy Riser/15mm LW Bracket combo, or Viewfactor FMJ Bottom Plate/15mm LWS Bracket, right?

 

[Bob Gundu]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for Epic and Scarlet you would need something like the Red DSMC Modular Assault Plate Pack, Wooden Camera Easy Riser/15mm LW Bracket combo, or Viewfactor FMJ Bottom Plate/15mm LWS Bracket, right?

What you see pictures there is the Anton Battery plate:
http://www.antonbauer.com/Products/QRC-EPIC

And the Matrix Cheese Plate:
http://www.antonbauer.com/Products/MATRIXCheesePlate

This solution works only if you have 15mm rods. You could use this config as a shoulder mount too with the matrix mounted to a shoulder rig as a counter weight.

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Exactly Correct Mike. The height of the camera body is such that the camera base is lower than 85mm optical center to center rod clearance needed to have this long established standard align. So what all the plates you mention are doing is moving the 15mm LWS bracket forward and up in front of the camera base; therefore the rods can only extend IN FRONT of the camera.

With 15mm or 19mm studio rods, they sit significantly lower when measured from the optical axis so you have the room to attach a baseplate where rods can extend both in front and behind the camera body.

Check out the paper I wrote about rod standards with diagram here for further explanation:

http://www.ocon.com/labs/rod-standards.html

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Actually the Matrix plate is tapped for all three rod standards. It has the option of two sets of rod clamps; one 15mm and one 19mm. These can be adjusted for 15mm LWS, 15mm Studio and 19mm Studio; as pictured.

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

ok just did my research I'm pretty much sold on the O-focus

been looking at the Letus and RRM Blue but I'd rather save up the extra dough and go this route.

You guys are coming from the cinema angle v the 35mm adapter angle. You guys know what you're doing.

Thanks Cid for the compliment! It comes from the years of experience our core team has in the specification, design and manufacturing of some of the best motion picture equipment on the planet. Feedback from all of you goes a long way as well!

 

[Mark Phelan]

Eric, how is the camera attached to the 1030Ds?

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Good stuff.

I LOVE my CFF-1!

 

[Satsuki Murashige]

Thanks Cid for the compliment! It comes from the years of experience our core team has in the specification, design and manufacturing of some of the best motion picture equipment on the planet. Feedback from all of you goes a long way as well!

Hi Eric, please check you PMs, I sent you some feedback on the oFocus a few weeks ago.

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Eric, how is the camera attached to the 1030Ds?

Hi Mark,

The new 1030 has the same sliding lock plate as the previous version with the standard OConnor quick release plate (this sliding lock plate can be turned around so the release mechanism is in the front or back of the camera- depending on preference.) The quick release plate has one ¼ and one 3/8 screw attached to the RED Dovetail Mounting Plate which is then mounted to the RED Quick Release Platform attached to the camera body.

 

[Nick Wernham]

This looks like some really great stuff. I am definitely interested in some OConnor accessories.