Erfort Kuke
Well-known member
Hello everybody
Finally I have received all my filters and my Micro matte box. After looking through the forum and asking advice i bought a kit of filters. Well not very happy because i encountered some problems. I asked someone to buy the filters for me in US since I live in Albania, so the guy bought the filters at Filmtools in CA, and he brought me the matte box that was delivered in his house and the filters.
First of all, one of the filters, Formatt HD ND IRND 0.9 was scratched. Well, since my friend who transported the filters wanted to save space he took off the paper boxes and he brought them in their filter pouches. The filter inside was wrapped with a paper and scotched, it was never opened, but still inside the filter was scratched. Without the boxes and with the time that it took for me to receive the filters (about 2 weeks and a half) i don't think i can take them back to Filmtools for an exchange. :sad:
But the biggest problem was with the Vertical ND Soft Grad that i bought. Only now I realized that the Redrock matte box cannot use 4 x 5.6 Vertical Gradient because there is no way to move them up and down. The trays of the matte box can only go up and down vertically, but with a vertical gradient you have to rotate the tray 90 degrees first and move it up and down to select the proper position of the gradient. But this cannot be done with the RR matte box. I got the vertical gradients because i have been reading here in the forum that with a vertical ND gradient you have more possibility to move it up and down and to get the desired position of the gradient.
Guess what happens when you have no experience. This is my first filter buy and i found myself with three filters that i cannot return.
I don't know if maybe Redrock can make me a special tray that can use vertical 4 x 5.6 filters in the matte box. I hope Brian gives me an idea, or if anybody knows how this issue can be fixed please advise :help:
Thanx
Finally I have received all my filters and my Micro matte box. After looking through the forum and asking advice i bought a kit of filters. Well not very happy because i encountered some problems. I asked someone to buy the filters for me in US since I live in Albania, so the guy bought the filters at Filmtools in CA, and he brought me the matte box that was delivered in his house and the filters.
First of all, one of the filters, Formatt HD ND IRND 0.9 was scratched. Well, since my friend who transported the filters wanted to save space he took off the paper boxes and he brought them in their filter pouches. The filter inside was wrapped with a paper and scotched, it was never opened, but still inside the filter was scratched. Without the boxes and with the time that it took for me to receive the filters (about 2 weeks and a half) i don't think i can take them back to Filmtools for an exchange. :sad:
But the biggest problem was with the Vertical ND Soft Grad that i bought. Only now I realized that the Redrock matte box cannot use 4 x 5.6 Vertical Gradient because there is no way to move them up and down. The trays of the matte box can only go up and down vertically, but with a vertical gradient you have to rotate the tray 90 degrees first and move it up and down to select the proper position of the gradient. But this cannot be done with the RR matte box. I got the vertical gradients because i have been reading here in the forum that with a vertical ND gradient you have more possibility to move it up and down and to get the desired position of the gradient.
Guess what happens when you have no experience. This is my first filter buy and i found myself with three filters that i cannot return.
I don't know if maybe Redrock can make me a special tray that can use vertical 4 x 5.6 filters in the matte box. I hope Brian gives me an idea, or if anybody knows how this issue can be fixed please advise :help:
Thanx
