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GROUP BUY: Cinegears Wireless Follow Focus Christmas Special!

We want one: Express Plus + Standard motor(I think).

Anyone have experience with the standard motor on Zeiss CP.2 lenses? I like the light weight of the standard motor, but I'd rather have too much power than not enough. Any feedback from owners would be much appreciated!
 
Philip Lima said:
We want one: Express Plus + Standard motor(I think).

Anyone have experience with the standard motor on Zeiss CP.2 lenses? I like the light weight of the standard motor, but I'd rather have too much power than not enough. Any feedback from owners would be much appreciated!
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The standard motor is pretty torquey...so you shouldn't have a problem. I'm running contax lenses which have stiffer lens barrels and it whips them around with no issues.
 
so you are saying a should be good with a normal motor and whats the difference from the standard vs express plus kit?
 
Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. I have had one for a couple or weeks and find it to live up to it's expectations. Very strong servo and I've operated it from 150" without fail. One thing I would caution people on is over cranking it on your rail. The pressure on the thumb screw causes strain on the servo housing as the rod clamp slides in a dovetail track and when tightened puts pressure on the housing. Two of my screws failed (stripped) which was no big deal as it could be tapped out and longer screws were used to replace them. I think using carbon rods caused me to crank it down too much to keep the gear from slipping. I was trying to keep it light and go with 15mm carbon rods which were very smooth and did not give the clamp much of a tooth to grab on to. I had no problems with 19mm rods and 15mm aluminum rods. Other than that it is really excellent!
 
Peter Strietmann said:
Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. I have had one for a couple or weeks and find it to live up to it's expectations. Very strong servo and I've operated it from 150" without fail. One thing I would caution people on is over cranking it on your rail. The pressure on the thumb screw causes strain on the servo housing as the rod clamp slides in a dovetail track and when tightened puts pressure on the housing. Two of my screws failed (stripped) which was no big deal as it could be tapped out and longer screws were used to replace them. I think using carbon rods caused me to crank it down too much to keep the gear from slipping. I was trying to keep it light and go with 15mm carbon rods which were very smooth and did not give the clamp much of a tooth to grab on to. I had no problems with 19mm rods and 15mm aluminum rods. Other than that it is really excellent!
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Thanks Peter!
 
any suggestions on a SDI/HDMI focus monitor for cabled focus pulling?
 
Will Keir said:
Any specific model to recommend?
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the DP7Pro OLED is probably the best monitor I've used, course that's dexently expensive...for a few hundred more you can get the 7" touch. The 9" touch is amazing as well..some used ones on here.

If you don't have that much money, and is just for focus pulling, I rock the iKan 7" IPS HD monitor. Less than $1k each and have a nice IPS color accurate screen. Don't have all the pro tools like waveforms and such, but great monitors. Smallhd's are meh..color accuracy is really bad, unless you have the DP7Pro OLED. AC7's are so far off the grid in terms of color accuracy. Marshall monitors are great too as well as TV logic. Pay premiums for both of those though.

Time for you to not be hovering anymore and commit already hehe
 
Really hoping we hit the 35+ price point. There have to be a few more people out there that still need a single channel.... :-)
 
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