Birger Nikon Mount Update?

[Michael Hastings]

With a Birger-Nikon-mount ETA of November, it will be too late for me or anyone joining the Red One to Epic-X exchange programm.

Ok, I know. Moving targets. Two of them actually....

Birger-Nikon on Epic? Oh yes, please. Would order now.

Jochen

Why would this be too late - Jim already said the cutoff date for ordering would NOT be the announcement date of October 31 so I suspect will be at least another thirty days after that.

Alternatively you could get a Birger EF and use it as a dumb mount with your manual Nikon lenses, buy a Canon lens or two in the meantime and maybe work out some sort of trade-in price on the Nikon mount when it comes out.

Honestly, for most of the normal lenses is there a dimes worth of difference between Canon electronic lenses and the equivalent Nikon electronic lenses?

Doing the ebay rental thing (you buy a used lens on ebay and then sell it when you are done with it and even if that is several months as long as you take care of it you typically lose very little or nothing) is also a practical solution for the interim.

 

[Julien T]

Hello,

So finally, I don't know if Nikon Birger Mount is finished or not?
Does Birger give up the Nikon Mount?

Please answer me, I have searched but I haven't found ...

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

It appears that the Nikon mount was not developed. Only Canon. There are several dumb mounts for Nikon, however.

Stephen

 

[Julien T]

Yes but with dumb mount there is not focus and diaphragm electronic control, isnt'it?

 

[Jacek Zakowicz]

Nikon ProLock

Nikon ProLock

Yes but with dumb mount there is not focus and diaphragm electronic control, isnt'it?

We make Nikon mount that locks (stock unmodified Nikon)lenses like PL mount and has built in iris ring to control/ monitor f stop on Nikon electronic lenses.
here is the link:
http://optitek.org/nikon-prolock.php

 

[Julien T]

We make Nikon mount that locks (stock unmodified Nikon)lenses like PL mount and has built in iris ring to control/ monitor f stop on Nikon electronic lenses.
here is the link:
http://optitek.org/nikon-prolock.php

Focus electronic works too ?

I would like know if Eric Widding has explain why does he stop the developing of Nikon Birger mount ?

 

[Martin Weiss]

I'd suggest you contect Eric directly; try http://www.birger.com/

 

[ericyoung]

Focus electronic works too ?

I would like know if Eric Widding has explain why does he stop the developing of Nikon Birger mount ?

No - that would require the lens to communicate with the Red One body which is not possible.

 

[Michael Hastings]

No - that would require the lens to communicate with the Red One body which is not possible.

That's incorrect. The birger mount does communicate with the redone body - it provides lens data on the lcd and also start/stop, via the impero controller.

Autofocus is not implemented because that would have to be driven by the camera head, but electronic focus and electronic iris control of the canon EF and EF-S lenses does work and is the whole point of the Birger mount.

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Michael is correct. . . sort of. As it happens, at least with our lenses and Birger and RED, the lens data communicated to the LCD is sometimes seriously in error. Most of the time the f/stops are accurate, but the focus distances are typically off by WILD margins (850 feet is a normal readout when we're like 10 feet away!).

Overall, it's a terrific system, and I'm really looking forward to RED instituting their Canon auto-focus system on the Epic-X and Epic-S cameras.

Stephen