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NAB PL Mount Lens Explosion

Blair S. Paulsen

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So I walk up to the AbelCine booth and am treated to a front row seat while Paul and Matt Duclos examine the new Rebel IBE primes being handed to them by none other than Mitch Gross himself. Hope Evin can get a set for SALT.

Looked at the Zeiss compact primes - nice barrels, smooth action, Zeiss glass, felt like Cine lenses to me. The mismatched max apertures and slow wide end are tough to accept, even at this price point.

Ran across a tiny booth showing their own set of PL primes, prototypes only.

Angenieux was heavily promoting the Rouge zooms.

Didn't get a chance to see the new Panchros and the Madman won't be showing the RPPs until Wednesday at the earliest but it was still boggling.

WTF? You ship a few thousand cameras with PL mounts and all of the sudden... :cool:
 
Spent some time with Mitch today myself. I agree with your accessment. Mitch was strait up about the good and bad qualities of the Lens. For those of you attending, their worth a look
 
I was able (no pun intended) to visit Mitch at his booth today. I agree that there are a lot of really interesting lenses to see there and highly recommend that anyone attending the show check it out. Just make sure you stop by the reduser party also. :-)

Jim
 
Perhaps if certain film industry people "use" to pay $20,000. + for just ONE Arri Master Prime lens, then maybe one day when Jim and the Red Team have some spare time, we will see a $20,000. Red lens that is oh say, T0.7, as in a VERY fast lens. The type of fast lens that Kubrick would/might have used for the Barry Lyndon candle lit scenes.
 
Thanks for all the kind words, guys. I've been so busy prepping our booth for NAB that this is my first moment back at REDuser since Friday, so it's certainly nice reading this particular thread. Matt & Paul were looking at the Rebel lenses while I got a look at their Tokina 11-16. Jim was incredibly gracious stopping by, but then again when you're in the catbird seat I guess you can be. It's just FUN this year at NAB. There are more lenses than you can shake a stick at plus lots of other great toys. I didn't even get a chance to see the finished Rebels myself until the Germans arrived (late) on Monday morning with them in hand -- I was getting abit nervous but imagine my surprise when I saw the 18-blade iris in each lens. Talk about near-perfect bokah!

Anyway, we also have fun stuff like our RED NULL lens for setting perfect backfocus on the RED and there's lots of sweet stuff and pretty glass all over the floor. All are welcome to come on by the booth and I'll bring everything I can carry over to the party at the Rio.
 
Lens Fever, catch it

Lens Fever, catch it

I should have mentioned the Red Null lens. Full props to Mitch for this great tool to set back focus. He claims it will typically get you within 5 microns and is simple to use in the field - sweet.

I also got to hold the Tokina 11-16mm rehouse prototype Matt was carrying around. I look forward to being the proud owner of a production unit sooner than later. What a useful focal length range, particularly when windowing the sensor for overcranks. It would also provide a stop gap for buyers of the RPPs who need something wide in their kit - I wouldn't expect it to be particularly well matched to the RPPs but with some deft DI work I would expect it to pass on most material (realistically wide angle lenses often read rather differently than "normal" lenses even in matched sets just because of their width anyway).

Exciting times.
 
Hmm, this is new, re: the Red Null lens. I've been eyeing the UniqOptics diascope at US$2,500 but if this "lens" can do the same thing for US$1,500 then I'm REALLY curious to know more!

Cheers,

Paul
 
Mitch Gross said:
...Anyway, we also have fun stuff like our RED NULL lens for setting perfect backfocus on the RED...
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Ooo. Tell us more! Even more importantly, does it only work with PL mount, or can it be used or adapted to work with Birger EF mount, Nikon or other mounts?
 
I'll take a look at the Null today. Also of interest at the show yesterday was the UniQoptics prime set. This looks to be a very nice set built by real pros at a very reasonable cost. Apparently they will not be mass made but done in limited runs.
 
Also looking for more info on the null lens here! Need a good way to collimate in the field, preferably without any extra power source or expensive field collimator / stripped down bench collimator.
 
Ken Willinger said:
I'll take a look at the Null today. Also of interest at the show yesterday was the UniQoptics prime set. This looks to be a very nice set built by real pros at a very reasonable cost. Apparently they will not be mass made but done in limited runs.
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Would like to read some specifics on these lenses. It seems no one knew of their existence before yesterday and so far I haven't seen any posting of what focal lengths, apertures, prices, etc.. we're looking at.

I'm not sure about the null lens, I guess I'd have to work with one and see if it's really any better than collimating with a wide prime that is known to have proper markings.
 
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