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Who can rehouse a good set of Nikons

rdgfilmsRED,
I am also doitmyself guy, I built an 8m OB truck and service all the equipment by myself, (hardware unlocked my iPhone and ordered new back immediately) and from my 15 year experience I know that nothing seems easy as it looks on pictures. Prepare to ask yourself: Are you feeling lucky today...? :))
 
Well, the 50mm 1.4 I sent Peter had a lot of crap going on inside, oil on the blades, aperture not functioning correctly, etc. I went with his handpicked one instead. He sent several 24mm back until he found one that was worthy of including in the kit. So, you do get a nice set with some upgraded features for cine use. Combine that with View Factor's tool set and it's pretty cool for running around doing some of your own work, maybe even with a focus puller if they are open to it.
 
Okay, so the clicks aren't so bad to get rid of. But what about geared focus ring for the lens. Would something from like redrock micro be a good cheap option.

It was also good meeting you Richard. We should do some two camera shoots in downtown LA one of these days.
 
rgdfilmsRED said:
Steve, did you get your set of lenses from him yet?
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Yes, I did. However, I don't have a Nikon mount yet. Should be here this week.

I'll post reviews when I get it installed and shoot some tests.
 
Why don't you just go Birger?

Why don't you just go Birger?

Why don't you just go Birger? - smooth, mappable focus and a free follow focus to boot. Nikon in a few months and Canon in a few weeks (yes, if you were at the reduser party we have finally seen a finished working model, so believe it will ship soon). With the Canon EF version, for an extra $20 you have a Nikon dumb mount for your old Nikkors (as well as Contax/Yashica/Zeiss, LeicaR, M42, etc. Canon EF takes almost everything with a simple $20 mechanical adapter.)

Reduser KM9000 shot a 3 week feature using Nikon and contax/yashica/zeiss lenses using birger as a dumb mount just a few weeks ago. (C/Y zeiss lenses are probably as good or better than nikkors and focus in the "right" direction and have much longer focus throws than the typical nikon and are about the same price or cheaper than a used equivalent Nikkor)
 
Yes, but will those manual Nikon Zeiss zf lenses hold up with the Birger Mount? The Birger mount is only for auto lenses? Or so I thought..
 
rgdfilmsRED said:
Yes, but will those manual Nikon Zeiss zf lenses hold up with the Birger Mount? The Birger mount is only for auto lenses? Or so I thought..
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The birger mount is just like a regular Canon mount and just like a regular Canon camera you can buy a $20 adapter to use manual nikons on it. It is just a physical adapter - you just put the Nikon lens on the adapter as if it was a Nikon camera and then put both on the Canon camera (or birger mount) just as if it were a canon lens.

The beauty of Canon is that when Canon went to the EF mount in the eighties they made it physically wider than the others and the flange focal distance (FFD is the distance to the film/sensor plane and on Canon is 44mm - substantially shorter than any of the other major lens mounts - so it is easy to make a physical adapter to any of them. About the only manual lenses that don't work are the old FD canon since the FFD of FD is even shorter.

I have had a version of the Birger mount since january on my #206, but it had a USB connection which required a computer or PDA to operate (birger has made this version of the Canon EF intelligent mount for 7 years and sold thousands for scientific, military, machine vision, etc) rather than the knobs that will come with the RED version.

Since I never bothered to hook up the computer or pda I bought the adapters and some Contax/Yashica/Zeiss lenses - which by the way, many are optically the same as the ZF lenses - Zeiss just modified the ZFs for nikon mount. The nice thing about C/y is they focus the "right" way and they have nice smooth, long focus throws. (As far as I know the ZFs focus the "wrong" way). Also many are optically very similar to the Zeiss cine lenses of the era (1980s) although maybe a little different because they only had to cover S35 rather than the 24mmx36mm of full frame SLR.

I also bought some Nikkors, as well as tried my dad's old Pentax m42 50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar (actually very good) and all worked fine with made in china adapters purchased on ebay. This isn't rocket science.

Canon EF 42 mm
Canon EF 44 mm

Any of these below would work on Canon EF (Birger mount)
M42 45.46 mm
Olympus OM 46 mm
Yashica/Contax 45.50 mm
Nikon F-mount 46.5 mm
Leica R 47 mm

So just to be clear you can use just about any lens on a Canon with an adapter with no problems, but you can't use any of the others on Nikon (except maybe leicaR but that half millimeter is probably too thin to make a good adapter)

And BTW the Birger physical mount is very good - one of the things that made me believe in Birger was how physically well constructed the prototype I got was. No SLR mount is super solid like a PL - they just weren't designed that way - but the Canon and birger/Canon are as good as any.
 
Drew599 said:
But what about geared focus ring for the lens. Would something from like redrock micro be a good cheap option.
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I'd wait to see what the viewfactor guys come up with. They have something in the making. I have the Redrock ones and while they work, they sure aren't sexy.
 
I got some good glass from Peter

I got some good glass from Peter

I got some Nikon primes and a zoom from Peter, 24mm f2.0, 35mm f1.4, 50mm f1.2, 85mm f1.4 and a 80 to 200mm f2.8 zoom.

I think Peter got some great glass for me. The prime set looks great. The 80 to 200 is very sharp.
 
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