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It‘s a great camera, but... some odd quality issues on #112

Jannard said:
It appears from the Arri website that Master Primes don't have metric focus marks... is that right?
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I don't think Cooke and Arri make a big deal about how the lenses are marked because people will obviously need metric or imperial and order the ones they need. It is such a no-brainer they don't even need to advertise it. They'd probably mark 'em up in cubits and hands if you ordered enough of them!

Do you ever see ads for electronics saying "Also available in 220V"?!? or car websites saying "The Ford Mustang - NOW with kilometres!"

In a world market, manufacturers supply what their customers require or those customers go elsewhere.


(But please don't stop making lenses marked in feet and inches.)
 
Feet, inches, and dinosaurs...
 
Come on Jim.:)

All professional lenses offer the option to choose metric or imperial.
Some, like the master primes, offer a reversible focus ring allowing to switch from one to the other in a single easy operation.

There is simply no way around this issue for a professional lens maker.

Love you all the same.
Emmanuel
 
Jannard said:
It appears from the Arri website that Master Primes don't have metric focus marks... is that right? I see, I guess you order them one way or the other...

Jim
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It appears like the focus scale is reversible - one side metric the other imperial... Check out this picture from the catalogue on their website:
 
Emmanuel Cambier said:
All professional lenses offer the option to choose metric or imperial.
Some, like the master primes, offer a reversible focus ring allowing to switch from one to the other in a single easy operation.
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The 18-50 zoom that I uses has NO witness marks. I don't understand why a few people are such big whiners about metric markings when they're very
rough marks to begin with. Put stickers on it and mark them yourselves and at least you'll have witness marks. The few times I've seen ACs prep the 18-50 they did this anyway for feet. What's the big deal? If your rental customers are concerned, they should rent Metric lens.
 
reality said:
The 18-50 zoom that I uses has NO witness marks. I don't understand why a few people are such big whiners about metric markings when they're very
rough marks to begin with. Put stickers on it and mark them yourselves and at least you'll have witness marks. The few times I've seen ACs prep the 18-50 they did this anyway for feet. What's the big deal? If your rental customers are concerned, they should rent Metric lens.
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There are workarounds, you are right.
But I stand by my statement : All professional lenses offer the option to choose metric or imperial.
Now keep on bringing some good ideas how to work around this, please, but if you quote me in a contradictory manner, make sure you have some facts to bring to the table.

Sincerly

Emmanuel
 
Do we know which thread has had the highest view count? This thread I must say, has had a significant lifespan.
 
Question.. Has the blue channel issue been dealt with?
 
Hey, this is such good news, that those metric scale will be available! I wrote a mail to Kelly and put my cacellations back on order. Big thanks, Jim and to the Red team!
And I must say, this is really encouraging, getting a produktion go in 24 hours... Yes, you're listening, excellent. Love this forum. Looks like is really does speed up things.
But honestly you really made a lot of people very happy with this decision, including myself.

So...

...coming back to the PL-Mount issue... Ok, there is this new lube. When do you think you can send it over? And is this something that can be applied by myself?
Still it hasen't solved if my #112 is the only one with this strange sound and stickiness issue, but I guess a bit of improvment here would be for the better.
Jarred, when do you think you can make it availbe?

Best,
Sebastian
 
Hey Sebastian.. email brent and he will take care of you.
 
Jarred Land said:
Hey Sebastian.. email brent and he will take care of you.
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Hi Jarred,
thanks for your answer. As this PL issue may concern the 300 Red-owners that are currently out there, wouldn't it be better to discuss it here in this forum? Like how to get it, how it is applied, does the mount have to be diassebled, can it be done by everyone etc?

I do feel some sort of immediate reaction from your side if things are on Reduser, which is really apprechiated. You guys are amazing, truly. No other company has that! This direct feedback from the customers.

But I haven't always encountered this same excellent speed when I was simply emailing... ;-).
To be honest I don't know how many times I talked to Kelly and other people over at Red about this (finally solved) metric scale thing. I couldn't get an answer in months! We have been actually talking about this since ICB 07, on an almost weekly basis. There wasn't even a decision...

And now, one thread... hey, and not only a quick answer, but a production go within 24 hours! Excellent! And many, many thanks again.

Ahh..come on... I guess you know what I mean...

Is it ok if we leave this discussion in the forum here?
 
florianstadler.com said:
It appears like the focus scale is reversible - one side metric the other imperial... Check out this picture from the catalogue on their website:
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with Zeiss or Arri you have all the choice - you can also have your company logo engraved in the ring !
 
ready2roll said:
Is it ok if we leave this discussion in the forum here?
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REDuser is not the same as the RED support team.
You really do need to talk to Brent and the support guys
about how best to resolve the mount issue. You will be
better served by talking directly to them.
 
REMY said:
Is there anyone out there that has developed an infrared laser for calculating distance that could convert back and forth? Maybe attached thru a Follow Focus and based on each lens? Just an idea off the top of my head...
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check out www.Cmotion.eu (also based in LA) Cmotion make a lens control system that amoungst other things makes ANY lens an lds lens by storing the lens scale data digitally and displaying it on a screen. The lens is recognised as soon as you calibrate the system and the lens information is displayed on the cdisplayII right on your handset! You can then change the scale representation between metric and imperial. They also make an infared rangefinder that can be integrated into the system~ with an autofocus function if you need it (think filming cars moving at high speed or filming from a low loader where the distances from the subject keep changing)
 
Deanan said:
REDuser is not the same as the RED support team.
You really do need to talk to Brent and the support guys
about how best to resolve the mount issue. You will be
better served by talking directly to them.
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Deanan.
What a pitty.. I did like this slight feeling of accelerating issues here :-)
But ok, I will mail to Brent and get things worked out directly. As nobody has responded sofar to having a similar issue, it pretty much looks like a sole incident.

Sebastian
 
FAVAMAN said:
Yes they have! check out www.Cmotion.eu (also based in LA) Cmotion make a lens control system that amoungst other things makes ANY lens an lds lens by storing the lens scale data digitally and displaying it on a screen. The lens is recognised as soon as you calibrate the system and the lens information is displayed on the cdisplayII right on your handset! You can then change the scale representation between metric and imperial.
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The only issue with this is the price of this system...
 
ready2roll said:
Deanan.
What a pitty.. I did like this slight feeling of accelerating issues here :-)
But ok, I will mail to Brent and get things worked out directly. As nobody has responded sofar to having a similar issue, it pretty much looks like a sole incident.

Sebastian
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Thanks. The lens markings are a distinct design/business topic. Product support and service issues need to go straight to the support team first so you get a better response time and less chance of being lost in the avalanche of reduser posts.
 
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