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If you have an idle moment, this is what the image produced by a lens behind a front-anamorphic adaptor and a rear-anamorphic adaptor behind the lens looks like if a distressed cinemascope 2x look is your thing. The things one does when the means are scarce. For the more moneyed players, an...

A friend and colleague who once had a complete set of lenses for a 35BL which he sold some 25 years ago had two Cooke lenses which did not go with the camera as they are ARRI standard mount and difficult to operate. They ay be candidates for a TLS or P+S Technik assessment for rehousing but the...

I have a ruined Angenieux 16-44 16mm zoom which had been "repaired" by a tech in S E Asia with UV cure optical cement in a humid environment. There were also loose elements inside. The original metal cylinder around a group had been cut away, some edges chipped and the group crudely reinstalled...

Recently I remade the barrel of a Laowa rear anamorphic adaptor to accept Nikon F-Mount stills lenses which I have been using via a EF-Mount adaptor ring. Whilst I had the lathe set up for fabricating a tractor part and a suitable short piece of metal stock was available, I decided to remake an...

Posted per favore for a fellow filmie who is up against a bit of urgency. -------- Hey guys, needing advice on a laptop, I'm looking to make a full length 4k doco on lifestyle in a few years mostly on my Hero9 and M2Pro Drone. (I have a lot to learn still, but I have a vision. Would this...

If a reputable optical filter company was to offer user installable/removable in-dwelling behind-the-lens filters would you want to buy? A complete kit would comprise :- Individual filters mounted or clip-in inserts in choices of Clear, ND and IRND of various densities. LC1/8., LC1/4...

Some years back, I bought a used SD301. It turned out to have had a splash of seawater onto the display face it some tie in its life and some had crept into to its gizzards. There developed some really bad crackling self-noise after several months. The value and the possible cost of shipping and...

Except for the 9mm member of this lens family made by Kowa for Cinema Products, the lenses cover a Super16mm film camera frame. The 9mm will vignette the corners. There was a modification for the 9mm, which opened the corners just enough for a clear Super16mm view. On some digital cinema cameras...

When re-assembling SIGMA zooms, is there a special thin-walled tubular tool for jigging the lens groups in place inside their sleeves and the pillar inserts being inserted through the tube? I am making very slow progress putting the pillars back in with tweezers and a tiny screwdriver as a...

I have a Sigma 50m-500 f4-f6.3 zoom. Over the years the image has become a bit spotty. The nature of the design is that in dusty conditions encountered when chasing aeroplanes in ground-to-air shots, it is inevitable that the lens will hoover up dust as the zoom extension goes in and out. This...

Just a little hint for folk to do their own fixit if you happen to have a camera with a focal reducer fitted in the throat. My arrangement has a Caldwell (speedbooster) in the throat of a "big" URSA. If you dismantle for a clean, be aware that the Caldwell optical cell can be refitted back to...

Apparently RED has patent protection over a compression scheme for Cinema DNG or something similar and got into a bit of a conflict over Cinema DNG with Blackmagic Design. Rather than get into a full-on stoush, BM dropped CDNG like a poisoned dog and went its own way with BRAW. Assuming BM...

For sake of curiosity, some folk might be slightly interested in some things I have been doing in an attempt to hot up the SI2K. An approved choice for shooting with the SI2K was for the combined OPLF and IR filter to be replaced by a simple IR filter when chasing that little more apparent...

This is a relay of a post via ACS. Thank you for reading. Bob Hart. ACS WA branch 4 hrs · URGENT NOTICE STOLEN : Sony F55 s# 100188 Fujinon 19 -90mm s# 7000102 Sachtler Video 18 Tripod Canon 5D mk3 s# 215020000098 24-70mm ef Canon s#1570000923 70 -200mm ef Canon s#1740001046 5/2/2019...

This question is a bit off-topic because it concerns a camera battery on a SI2K. But the SI2K is the indirect ancestor of the RED right? Close enough is good enough for a try my luck anyway. I have two generic batteries which are patterned after the Dynacore batteries. They have a Dynacore...

As a long shot, does anyone have or know anyone who has a diagram for either an ARRI B/Standard Mount or preferably a PL-Mount for the Angeniuex 16-44mm T1.1 zoom lens? Being of a lazy nature, whilst I can build one, I am trying to avoid reinventing the wheel and designing a PL-Mount for this...

Does anyone have any clue as to what is in the Vinten fluid for the thin-film heads. Much of the magic brew had undertaken an escape and evasion exercise in an old Vinten 22 I have been repairing. What remained appeared stained by fine metal particles or nylon particles from the friction...

For those who have curiosity in Vinten Vision 22 repair work. The baseplate lock tongue slides in a milled space. On my specimen which has lived a hard life, the casting had cracked upwards and the lock wouldn't work. The entire cracked section was removed and the piece was duplicated in new...

This is one to look out for it comes your way in the cinemas. I don't know if RED cams were used to shoot it but Western Australian RED owner, Sam Winzar is in the end credits for data management.

Western Australian actor and director, Ben Young has been honing his craft over the past decade or so, with short indie films, music videos TVCs and finally stepped into the deep pool with his debut feature, "Hounds Of Love". Some three decades past, a husband and wife serial killer team...