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Red Nikon mount review...

I'll post photos of it next week. It should work with any lens and be especially good with those long zooms and telephotos. It works with 15mm or 19mm rods, but you need either the UNIVERSAL MOUNT, which I believe works with the 19mm system, or the same kind of device made by others for 15mm.
 
Yeah, it will work the same upside-down. No rods and baseplate on the bottom is nice when you go from tripod to hand held - no baseplate digging into your shoulder and you keep your matte box, zoom motors, follow focus, etc. in place. I usually make a rod receptacle unit to screw rods into onto the front of a camera to avoid the dreaded base-plate and keep the rods underneath the lens.
 
This is awesome news, thanks Evin and Douglas for your hard work. I've got my deposit in. Does anybody have an idea when these nikon mounts will start shipping?
 
Hey Doug,

Will your lens support work on larger cinema lenses, such as Cooke and Angenieux zooms?
 
screw in front rods for Red

screw in front rods for Red

Doug,

I'm very impressed with the speed with which you designed and built a Nikon mount for the Red, and also with your straight forward "how to" and information videos. Thank you.

Douglas Underdahl said:
I usually make a rod receptacle unit to screw rods into onto the front of a camera to avoid the dreaded base-plate and keep the rods underneath the lens.
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I've been comparing my Aaton XTR, and its front mounted screw in rods, with the Red One front plate. It looks like there is room for a U-shaped bracket, with rod holders, to be added to the front of the Red. It could fit under and around the bulge holding the Red insignia. Longer bolts, replacing the bottom four existing ones on the Red front plate, could hold it on? This may already be your plan?

The beauty of the Aaton hand grip (beyond the oiled walnut wood becoming "one" with an operator as they grow older together:calm: ) is that with the attachment spread across the two rods it's very rigid laterally, while still being highly adjustable. Maybe Aaton hand grips could be used on the Red as well.

Michael
 
I got mine yesterday. Worked great last night. Stills coming soon. No rotational problems at all. Old lenses as well.

I do wish they would re orient the mount so that the f/stop and focus mark were facing the 1st AC instead of the sky.
 
HOLLYWOOD,

What Nikon lenses are in your package? Could you give us something involving a focus pull? Thanks.
 
Hey, yeah Michael, make a dual screw in rod receptacle using those 4 bottom screws on the front of the RED as attachment points. Excellent. Now your rods end at the front of the camera so you don't have to use a sliding base plate if you don't want to. I'm going to make one for my cam, no doubt.

I favor the big arri grip with the flangey extension. I love the idea of the wood Aaton grip as I once made electric guitars, but they just never fit my hand right.

And thanks, Michael, for your nice words.

Hollywood: you can rotate the Nikon mount to any of 8 positions if you do the "shave the connector" trick. So you can have your witness mark facing the floor if that's where you want your AC.

I think the lens support will work with larger lenses. But with those huge Angenieux and Cooke zooms, they probably come with their own supports.
 
Douglas Underdahl said:
I think the lens support will work with larger lenses. But with those huge Angenieux and Cooke zooms, they probably come with their own supports.
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Thanks for the reply, this is very cool! I look forward to seeing it. We have an older Cooke zoom that did come with it's own support, but it's for 15mm rods and we are using 19mm. I have rigged a temporary solution so we can use it for the meantime, but I've been looking into alternatives other than Arri, and this sounds like it might be perfect.
 
Douglas Underdahl said:
Hollywood: you can rotate the Nikon mount to any of 8 positions if you do the "shave the connector" trick. So you can have your witness mark facing the floor if that's where you want your AC.
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Thanks Doug. What's the "shave the connector" trick? I assume the rotational position was fixed by the location of the space for the future s4i connector.
 
The thing that keeps you from using the mount at any position is the electrical connector that sticks out when you remove the PL mount and support plate. There is a recess cut into the Nikon mount plate at 12 o'clock to make room for this connector, but just one recess so you have to use the mount in one position. Now I haven't tried this, but a user posted that if you carefully shave either side of the electronic connector, you can fit it flat into the recess in the adjustable collar on the RED entirely. This way it won't stick out and you won't have to use the recess in the mount at the 12 o'clock position, you can use it in any position. Excess wiring is pushed back down the groove and shoved back into the camera where you first see it emerge. I'll try this next week and when I get my voice back (bad cold) I'll do another video..
 
Doug,

Great stuff! Appreciate all your work getting this info to us.
 
Great work on the mount Doug. Thanks for such a thorough review Evin. In knowing that some have been shipped, do either of you know whether they are making many of them at a time? Any shipment/manufacturing details? Thanks again.

Nick.
 
Whoever has the new f-mount - could you post a few pics during the process of installing - preferably close-ups so we can actually see what's going on in there - Doug's videos are great, but I don't think Youtube is doing his work justice.

Thanks,

Nick.
 
It's really simple and straight forward.

-Just be careful to not strip the hex heads on the screws. Find a tight fitting allen. The one red gave me was not as good as one I found in my kit. I heard they are making a new screw though.

-Be carful of stuff getting on the sensor. If possible it might be safer to not do it with the camera pointing up. It's just asking for it. Although it may be hard to get the mount on as easy as it is tricky getting the electronic sensor to settle in the right spot. Have a sensor cleaning brush.

-maybe rub a little lube on the screws when putting them in but I had no problems with binding

-like Evin my back focus was spot on. Loved that!
 
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