LEITAX EOS MOUNT - for RED ONE (non Electronic)

[Nick Morrison]

Has everyone seen this? Looks like Leitax has a great EOS dummy mount for RED ONE. Not good for electronic "L" glass, but perfect for Leitaxed Leica R's, Contax and Nikon AIS glass.

See this link: http://www.leitax.com/conversion/Cine/Red/index.html

Here are some of their photos from their site:

Check out this link:
http://www.leitax.com/Leica-lens-for-Cinema-cameras.html

Looks like they have a way of quickly swapping from PL to EOS as well. Nice!!

Enjoy!

NOTE: to be clear, I am not selling this myself...I'm just reporting to the community that Leitax is. Please make all purchasing requests directly to them. Thanks!!!

 

[Samir Patel]

Nick, I believe Canon EF glass defaults to wide open correct? So technically we should be able to shoot wide open if we are not interested in controlling aperture occassionally right? What do you think?

At approx $730 after Euro to USD this has been on my purchase list for a while but I keep thinking it's too close to the price of a birger at $1285 but with aperture control.

 

[T_Freundlich]

I've been using this since last spring on my R1MX and have been very happy with it. The build quality is very good and the mount is solidly built (the assembly probably weighs close to 1 kg on its own). No electronics to worry about and simple to use. Most of my lens case is manual M42 stills glass with EOS adapters so it works perfectly for this.

The only (slight) issue I've found is that when tightening the lens locking ring on the lens, it's best to use only moderate finger pressure since if you jam it down like mad, the whole mount will tend to unscrew when releasing the lens locking ring. The designers have obviously had to make some compromises due to the closer flange focal distance of the EOS mount so the locking of the rotation of the various mount parts relative to each other is not quite as heavy-duty as on for example the original PL mount. Also, the back focus adjustment is slightly more tricky than on the PL mount. But these are not really problems when shooting - the lens stays very solidly on the mount, and it's nice to have a PL-style locking ring on an EF lens.

Nick, I believe Canon EF glass defaults to wide open correct? So technically we should be able to shoot wide open if we are not interested in controlling aperture occassionally right?

This is correct. The one electronic lens I use regularly is the Tokina EF-S 11-16 and since most of the stuff I shoot tends to be at around f/2.8 anyway I find that the lack of aperture control on that one lens is rarely a big deal. There is a rather cumbersome workaround - you can use a Canon DSLR body to change the aperture with Live View enabled, remove the lens "hot" and the iris should stay where it is. Probably not something you'd want to do on a high-profile commercial shoot but an option nevertheless...

 

[T_Freundlich]

Holy moly, I only just followed the link and found the new PL mount they have. That is HOT - I've been occasionally swapping between the Leitax and the Red PL mount but it's been a real pain in the A... This looks very very cool.

 

[Howard Tejeda]

Red One Mount Custom Work

http://www.ebay.com/usr/anthonyhowards?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

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