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Follow Focus from Cine City

Anbrahaesl said:
Hi,

Is there anyone who has any knowledge of the follow focus made by The Cine City? I'm all for Arri, but they are deadly expensive as we all know, this little bugger is only $700! that's almost 1/10 of the Arri.

http://www.thecinecity.com/tcc/product.php?productid=121&cat=275&page=1

Anyone?

Kind Regards
Anders
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Generaly its reasnobly well made an well finished, the 19mm bracket fits well but its a little tight on the bars. The lens gears work well and accessories are also good. The two hand knobs fit well and locate on to the FF unit itself well. The gear box 'arm' that interfaces with the lens is ABS not aluminium. I don't know what the actual gears are made of inside. The problem seems to be is that there is about 3mm of play somewhere in the gear train. For professional users this is a real problem. It may be OK if you can fix the play in the gear box. I couldnt find any ajustment for it. I believe the company say they are making some quality improvements to the unit.

PM me if you want to know more. I have a friend who has one who I think would sell for less than $700.
 
No, I know it doesn't cost 7K but last time a checked the FF5 was 47.000 SEK (€4230) and that was before the world economy breakdown. Now I'm afraid to even ask.

Anders
 
Hi, I had the CineCity one I just sold since I bought a Arri FF4 (couldn't afford it back then) and used it on a shoot. It is well made and working perfectly, just as previously mentionned, it's got a slight 'play' in the gears, a couple of mm when ajusting. As much as I wouldn't recommend it for rental or commercial shoots, it's pretty useful for personnal work and once you know it, it's accurate and practical enough to be better than focusing on the lens barrel anyway... And it's cheap enough to be a good investment until you can get an Arri... :wink:
 
The web site states that the whip and the speed crank work with other units. It looks like they would fit an Arri FF. Can anyone who has seen this unit confirm this? I'll stick with my recently purchased Arri FF but it would be nice not to spend 300.00 on a whip and 180.00 on a speed crank.
 
Satazius said:
The web site states that the whip and the speed crank work with other units. It looks like they would fit an Arri FF. Can anyone who has seen this unit confirm this? I'll stick with my recently purchased Arri FF but it would be nice not to spend 300.00 on a whip and 180.00 on a speed crank.
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I bought one of their speed cranks on eBay - it's a standard accessory port connector, so it should work on practically anything; Arri, Chrosziel, Zacuto, RedRockMicro etc.
 
MisterHilder said:
I bought one of their speed cranks on eBay - it's a standard accessory port connector, so it should work on practically anything; Arri, Chrosziel, Zacuto, RedRockMicro etc.
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Thanks. If shipping isn't a killer, looks like a good way to go.
 
XiaoSu Han said:
the ff4 is around 2500 usd on http://www.cameraaccess.com, don't buy anything else, ff4 is the true follow focus...

incredibly reputable seller.
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I think that is the price for the base unit and maybe some gears. You probably still need a 19mm adapter, right hand focus knob, right hand extension (if you use a big matte box) and focus whip.
 
this is total junk!!!!! I had one to try out.. complete joke of a follow focus.

looks like a chroszeil.. but looks can be deceiving.

You can NOT use this professionally!

there is so much play and slop!!!!

stay away
 
Ryan E. Walters said:
It is about $2,400 pounds, not US dollars- so that put it inline with other US dealers of around $4k.
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Ryan, try looking at it again....It's "£ 1,552.97" which currently equals out to $2169.65 USD for the basic FF. Even when you add a few other accessories, it's under $3500. Of course, there might be duty when bringing this into the US, so who knows how much it would actually cost.

Matthew
 
oops, my mistake- I saw the price of the MB-20- sorry about that.

That is a GREAT deal- as it is about $600 cheaper then buying it from Film Tools which has it listed at just under $2,800- I wonder what import fees there would be ....
 
richcam1 said:
Where is it made? What country?
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I believe it's still made in Germany. I would say that there is more duty already added into the price of the product since you would be buying it from the UK, but I think the EU has changed duty on things like that. Who really knows what duty would be on it. I tried looking up duty before and it was really hard to figure out what it would be. Not to mention that even if there is supposed to be duty on it, it may fall through the cracks.

Matthew
 
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