Al vs Tl mount

[greg filipkowski]

Al vs Tl mount,
Is the only difference is the build and the lock?
Or is that TI can due focusing etc

Scarlet 0598

 

[Dustin Dooley]

11-03-2011, 10:05 PM
Originally Posted by Southworth
Three questions 1) Could anyone do a benefit breakdown of going with a Titanium EF mount over an Aluminum Ef mount?
I think they are supposed to be electrically the same.

Also, you should know that the Red Canon mounts are more secure than the actual Canon EF mount because Red has added a locking collar.

The Ti mount has a tighter tolerance, is a touch lighter and is much stronger.

Practically, the Ti mount will give you more reliable mounting and unmounting in a wider variation of shooting temperatures, and it will allow you to mount somewhat heavier lenses with a lens support than the Al mount.

You'd have to consult Red for a list of lenses that can be used with and without support with either version of the mount.

If you use a typical set of cine primes, say the Zeiss ZE lens set, and a couple of light canon zooms with maybe the 70-200mm being your heaviest lens ... then you can probably get by with the Al mount.

Probably - ask Red though.

As for the temperature extremes ... the Ti lens can save your ass. If you mount a lens inside in a heated environment, then go outside to shoot in the snow, when you go to change a lens ... you can't. Its stuck because the mount has contracted.

It happens the other way too. You're shooting in desert, and you change lenses. Now at wrap you try to remove your lens in the air conditioned studio/base camp ... you are stuck.

Ti is much more resistant to expansion/contraction.

This was posted on the QA thread. So the question is if 1500 price difference is worth it?

;Dooley

 

[Jeff Lower]

Al = aluminum mount, and Tl = titanium mount.

 

[Robbert Nieuwenhuijs]

I won't be shooting in the desert any time soon, but I'm not taking any chances. Titanium it is for me...