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Best Nikon Lens?

Hi Wim,

the Long Valley mount allows you to use the new Nikon lenses without aperture ring. It´s a Red One Nikon mount which you send to Long Valley to modifie. That´s all. It´s a Red one solution. I´m sure Scarlet and Epic will have a a choice of Nikon mount including this feature. Also the Nikon 17-55mm 2,8 is a Red One solution. It will not cover FF35. There the 17-35mm is the better choice.
Cheers,
Marc
Ps: I also use the AF-D 80-200mm 2,8. It´s a great lens and works very well with Red One.
 
Thanks Marc, I've contacted long vally and it looks like the next batch of mounts are a couple of months away :( but my red drive is still on back order which is a bit of a shame.

I assume you used a follow focus when on the feature? did you have to get a focus ring put on it or did you find a work around yourself?
 
Hi Scott,

that´s why I wrote "cinema lens". There are restrictions such as a easy way to FF. We didn´t use a FF, just did change the focus by hand. It´s not the best solution, but it worked.
I have a focus ring for the Nikons, but I´m still waiting for my View Factor FF and can´t tell more about a FF setup with the Nikon mount.

Marc
 
Wim,

In my post 116 of this thread I recommended the Long Valley (Underdahl) mount. There are numerous threads on this forum with posts by me recommending that mount for Nikon lens users. I've been a vocal proponent here of the Underdahl mount since it was first announced. I received some of the very first Underdahl Nikon mounts shipped. Also, as DP for the recent 10-RED camera production of the band Journey in concert, I had Underdahl Nikon mounts installed on the four RED cameras that would be using Nikon zooms - the other six REDs were PL mount and used cine lenses.

One drawback of the Nikon AF-D 80-200 f/2.8 is a much discussed slight image shift when you rack focus. The Nikon AF-S 80-200 f/2.8 has just a tiny amount of image shift when you rack focus (less than the D model), and Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 AF doesn't have any image shift whatsoever when you rack focus. Unless you do a lot of focus-through racking while shooting footage, image shift while racking really isn't an issue. If you read the reviews of all three of those Nikon 80-200 lenses, their optical performance is almost identical - except for the image shift with the D model, which isn't an issue when the lens is used on an autofocus Nikon DSLR (what it was designed for), but can be an issue when used on a motion camera like RED One.

The Nikon zooms me and my crews have been using regularly on my three RED cameras are:

Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 (with Nikon mount), 14-24 f/2.8, 17-35 f/2.8, 28-70 f/2.8, AF 80-200 f/2.8, AF-S 80-200 f/2.8, and 50-300 f/4.5 AIS. We shoot a lot of genres where zooms are the best choice - alternative sports, adventure travel, wildlife, documentaries of various kinds, nature, etc. The Underdahl mount is necessary for controlling iris with the Tokina 11-16 and Nikon 14-24 on this list - the rest have external iris rings.

When we occasionally use Nikon primes in our work, we use a 180 f/2.8 AIS, and a 400 f/3.5 AIS, which we also have 2x extenders for.

As I've posted on many threads before, for weight and mobility enhancement, me and my crews have never used matte boxes and follow focus units when using my Nikon lenses on RED. We eye focus the lenses manually zooming the lens barrel rings, and we use high quality screw on filters. Our apertures for what we shoot generally vary from f/4 to f/11. Footage results have been superb.

Hope this helps...
 
Thank you Steve you posted this again!
I can only recommend Steve´s post´s for everybody who have questions about Nikon lenses with RedOne (and many other subjects).
He gave me useful and great advises!
Thank you again Steve!
Marc
 
Mennovandijk said:
Steve, what kind of support do you use with the 400 f/3.5 ?
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I use an ET hybrid 15mm bridge plate, ET aluminum 15mm 18" rods, and a custom 15mm under-lens support plate with a screw hole for a screw that goes up into the lens collar of the 400. I don't have a make for the custom under lens support plate. I bought it from the cinematographer I bought my Canon 150-600 zoom from, and there is no manufacturer markings on it.

OptiTek and others probably have an under-lens support plate that could be adapted easily for use with the Nikon 400, or any other long tele.
 
Wesley Scoggins said:
Who has bought from Duclos before?
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I've used Duclos to service many of my lenses...they do great work, and they're excellent to do business with.

I've also had very good lens service from Stuart at Focus Optics.
 
Wim,

The two Nikon 80-200 lenses I use are the AF and AF-S. The AF is small, has no lens collar, and light enough to use without support - it weighs around 2.5 pounds.

The AF-s is larger, around 3.5 pounds, and has a lens collar. I use the AF-S with 12" 15mm aluminum rods, and a custom under lens plate with a screw that screws into the lens collar.
 
135 2.0 AI is perhaps one of my favorite Nikons. Excellent for portrait or those real heavy drama closeups. The contrast is fabulous. Focus draw is huge - good enough for pulling focus. I stripped mine with Zacuto gears and it quite excellent. Great deal too. You can grab one in excellent condition for 3-500.00

Got mine from Adorama
 
Also forgot to add one of the pains with still lenses are the non-uniform fronts. Forget about clip on MB's. I use a Chrosziel MB which has their new flexible step down rings. They're absoulutely brilliant. I bought one for 55-85 and another for 80-95. They really work. Tight seal, very slick - none of the neoprene donut madness with other MB's. Hard step downs often don't get as tight a seal. Check it out at 16x9. A must if you have varying still lens fronts.
 
Tim Naylor said:
Also forgot to add one of the pains with still lenses are the non-uniform fronts. Forget about clip on MB's. I use a Chrosziel MB which has their new flexible step down rings. They're absoulutely brilliant. I bought one for 55-85 and another for 80-95. They really work. Tight seal, very slick - none of the neoprene donut madness with other MB's. Hard step downs often don't get as tight a seal. Check it out at 16x9. A must if you have varying still lens fronts.
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Why not add uniform size hard fronts to your lenses and be done with it?
You can tame this issue with the addition of inexpensive step-up rings.
 
Anybody uses the AF-D 80-200mm 2,8 with a 1,4 or 1,7 converter?
Do you recommend it?
I´m looking for a little bit longer lens and still keep it lightwheigt.
Thanks
Marc
 
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