motion mount

[Lee Kelly]

Are people still using these?
Does anyone know if the current version works on Weapon 6k?
Will Red need to upgrade these for their 8k sensor size? Or is there a mk2 in the pipeline?

 

[Uros Zuraj]

I use canon MM all the time. couldnt ask for anything better

 

[Lee Kelly]

Thanks Uros,

I had been considering these for ages but never pulled the trigger. Now I am considering it but nervous that it might be something that Red redo soon or that its not going to be compatible with a future sensor.

 

[Louis Maddalena]

I use the PL Motion Mount relatively often as well. Pretty happy with hit.

 

[Daniel Kelly Brown]

Personally I used the motion mount often until I realized that most of the time I use the red I am shooting at higher frame rates and generally need all the light possible. If your shooting mainly at 23.97fps then motion mount would be key. To have ND filtration thats behind the lens is so great, light weight, barely needs cleaning, and to dial in your depth of field exactly to what you want is amazing!

If your mainly shooting high fps with the red its not necessary, and is most the time detrimental.

Also yes I would not buy one now. With hope it would make great sense for Red would be planning to out a new version that can go to zero ND sometime in the next year or so. That would really be a priceless bit of gear to have in the kit!

 

[Nick Morrison]

We use the EOS MM when shooting outdoors, and its great.

Much cleaner than using ND.

 

[Mestizo Devon]

Addicted to ND on a button!

 

[Lee Kelly]

Thanks for the feedback guys.
I bit the bullet and bought EF and PL motion mounts today. I had been in too many situations when shooting in the water super early sunrise and having to guestimate my level of ND based on 1st AD schedule and all that jazz because once you throw on physical ND its a time consuming (couple of mins really) to swap out and get back in the drink. I dont really like to ride ISO too much and often keep my whole shoot at one level for consistent look so being able to dial up ND with a button push is going to be really nice for me.
I read through Phils review/test and feel confident that itll work for what I do and in low light its not hard to throw back in the static mount, kind of a 2min thing, which is almost like changing a lens and filter timeframe. Easy. Done. Broke!

 

[Uros Zuraj]

We do a lot of actionsports and try to only use natural light (mostly you couldnt even light things up anyway) and even shooting higher framerates,... we want shallow DOF so MM is working like a charm for us