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Here there be a dyed-in-the-wool SI2K afficionado having a bit of a close encounter with the Epic. - I know there is no comparison with 5K but the SI2K is not yet unloved. Let's hope his SI2K "Das Shrecklich Kind" does not do a dummy spit on his next assignment with it over this momentary fling...

Offtopic. I got this message ( image attached ) on my current visit to reduser. I am a bit of a computer illiterate so am at your mercies as to whether my computer has been infiltrated ( most likely ) or whether reduser has and the powers that be need to know. It happened whehn I linked through...

Not too sure if this is any use to anyone and sorry for the weird print style. I hope I have not broken something on reduser by copying and pasting. I ran into these over the last few days. For those who shoot 2K, there's a few CP Ultra T* lenses on ebay starting with this one at the lower end...

Okay. Any clever fellas out there made one of those outdoors smokers out of a two-stroke yard blower?? There is apparently a smart trick of winding brake pipe inside the muffler and connecting up an extra pulse pump in the crankscase to move the smoke oil through the muffler heat exchanger then...

For the curiosity factor, here are two very short shots with the Sigmatel 135mm f1.8 lens for impression only. It is not a faithful rendition of sharpness as I felt it was more valid to see the correct field-of-view for this lens and shot through a 35mm adaptor. The lens goes a bit softer and...

I stored an old Nikon f1.4 35mm lens in with the others in a lens case. It is yellow from the radiation from the thorium glass. Like an April fool, I didn't think. Now all my other lenses are infected and I shall have to put the lot out in the sun to bleach them clear again.:frown2:

Last night, I finally got my greasy fingers, dandruff and DNA on a Scarlett camera when I attended a music video shoot last night. It was hoisted out of a camera box something like a rabbit out of a hat in an undressed state, a simple grey box with some buttons and sockets and a lens mount. Then...

That it is not within the illegal realms of consanguinity is a reassuring thing.

Zoomitar Sr. 254-1581 40mm f2.8 Macro Kilar This is another of the uneconomic-to-repair fungussed and tropically humidified lenses I referred to in a post some time back. Those were two old Cooke Ser 2 lenses and a 90mm Zoomitar Macro Kilar. For lens techs, it is probably not something you...

If Sam Winzar, one of the RED owner population in Western Australia has not advised elsewhere on this forum, Koko, the redcloud cattle dog who played "Red Dog" in the movie of the same name, shot I believe on Sam's Red One, has left us due to heart disease at 7 years...

For what it is worth, the Kinoptik Tegea T2 5.7mm lens for 16mm film cameras, is sweetest on the sharpness numbers on the SI2K at aperture a trace under T2.8, one millimetre under the mark on the small aperture ring. It comes up to about 80% of the real world sharpness of the best of my CP...

For those increasingly scarcer few who enjoy both old sally bands and Sigmund Romberg light opera, this is a rare little ears treat, a tender solo on euphonuem, a big brass bass ( oompa-pa ) instrument to the less knowledged but in the hands of the best has a much greater range than it is mostly...

If there is anyone familiar with the stainless steel ARRI-Mount flavour of this older zoom lens, advice is sought regarding the size and thread pitch of the four countersumk rearward facing screws which attach the stainless rear portion of the mount to the black anodised front section which...

Some time back, I posted an unauthorised how-to on DVINFO.NET about the Steven Studio 1.2K HMI light with electronic ballast. There are now two package options posted for sale on eBay by a number of vendors. There is the original package with a heavy solid electronic ballast going for ballpark...

This might be of interest. http://store.pstechnik.de/all-products/lenses-lens-accessories/cooke-s2-s3-rehousing/

Yeah I know. I am probably going to be tagged as a serial pest but sometimes it can't be helped. Here goes. Have a guess at what cam this test was shot on. Clue. The taking lens was a Nikon 50mm f1.4 set at f2.8, frame rate 25P, ND.3. There is a before and after my pathetic attempt at color...

http://www.brodiebutler.com/blog/2012/10/red-scarlett-camera-on-glidecam-hd400-with-steadicam-merlin-vest/

An indie film-making colleague, actually a professional stills shooter moving into DoP of motion work and way beyond my meagre skill set - received a copyright violation notice on his own original work on the basis that it infringed another work which had actually ripped off and reprocessed...

Genuine lens technicians will cringe and may well they have good reason, so please, the following comment is me only not any ways near to industry practice. I operate the SI2K, a digital cinema camera. The Super 16mm film camera lenses that I use on it are slightly out of collimation for a...

This mirror telephoto lens was offered in the 70s with a variety of adaptor mounts for 35mm stills cameras. They all attach via a collar-over-shoulder arrangement secured with small grubscrews. Given that the EPIC/SCARLETT owner-operators I know in my vicinity don't have the Nikon mount, I...