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!!! OConnor Camera Accessories !!!

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Wow Eric! Very nice video
 
Hey all,

We have been very fortunate to be working with Ali Ahmadi and Susan Lewis, two great people over at Oconnor and they have lent us the CFF-1 for our upcoming shoot. I just received it yesterday and this thing is amazing. A really and truly well built, well designed and well exacted piece of extremely modular and fairly lightweight hardware. We will be grabbing a couple of last min pickups for our film Light in the Himalayas as well as some time laps. I can hardly wait to put it through the paces on the way up to Mount Everest base camp. We have been filming for 4 long years and am really excited to have a company like OConnor help us finish with a bang.

I will be sure to post some pictures with the CFF-1 follow focus in use on location in the Himalayas as soon as we get back. but for know you can check this out.

www.lightinthehimalayas.com

Happy shooting,
 
Yaque,

Thank you for the kind words. We at OConnor are very excited to see the photos and the film. Good luck and be safe!
 
Eric J. Johnston said:
Yaque,

Thank you for the kind words. We at OConnor are very excited to see the photos and the film. Good luck and be safe!
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Eric, you guys have done an outstanding job, I don't think that that my words are too kind just honest sentiment for a truly masterful tool. It is a pleasure to be working with you and thanks for the luck.

Ill take a lot of photos, this thing is soooo sweet.
 
Below is a render of what the production units of the follow focus will look like. The mechanics of the prototype units remain largely unchanged but the aesthetics have been improved by OConnor’s industrial design team. I think it looks GREAT if I do say so myself….
 

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The short answer is that the unit is on par with ARRI quality while incorporating features not offered in any of their commercially available follow focus units. Specifically the OConnor CFF-1 can be used on both 15mm and 19mm studio rods using the same bridge (a 15mm LWS bridge is also an option), it has the largest lens barrel to main bridge clearance, and the main bridge is horizontally adjustable from the support bridge.

So what does this mean? Getting around really BIG lenses is no longer an issue with this design; the same is true of smaller lenses such as scopes. It also means that for the first time the “hybridization” of 15mm and 19mm studio spacing is addressed specifically by a follow focus.

Jon Fauer did a great Blog posting here: http://www.fdtimes.com/news/
 
Pricing announcing soon. Availability shortly after NAB.
 
Michael Zeisse was in France yesterday and discovered another thing that sets the CFF-1 apart from other follow focus units…when using the RED top mounts or side handles to support 19mm rods on top of the camera you can mount the unit ABOVE the camera body and lens! The drive direction remains “cine” and seems to be a rather elegant solution for cumbersome builds with large lenses. The line of sight to the lens witness mark is completely unobstructed. Here’s a quick and dirty snapshot:
 

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Eric J. Johnston said:
Michael Zeisse was in France yesterday and discovered another thing that sets the CFF-1 apart from other follow focus units…when using the RED top mounts or side handles to support 19mm rods on top of the camera you can mount the unit ABOVE the camera body and lens! The drive direction remains “cine” and seems to be a rather elegant solution for cumbersome builds with large lenses. The line of sight to the lens witness mark is completely unobstructed. Here’s a quick and dirty snapshot:
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Hey Eric,
Wow, that adds some interesting buildup options for light weight, as I could do a buildup without any baseplate at all, especially if I didnt need a matte box!
 
Now that's a unique selling point!
 
Yaque Silva-Doyle is as far as 20,000 feet above of Himalayas with a CFF-1 (sure to be the highest and coldest environment the unit has been subjected to yet) and sent these great pictures of his adventures. He is happy to report that "it worked like butter on mind control."

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Thanks Yaque and be safe
 
Dexter Gregoire said:
Interesting pics modeling the CCF-1 with a 7D.

Could it really be true, the CCF-1 will sell for more than what a 7D and a Canon Prime is worth?
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The 7D was not my first choice, I was limited by weight, and portability. Due to my limited budget I was not able hire the Nepali porters necessary to lug my Red up to Everest base camp. The 7D worked in a pinch but one has to make many sacrifices when using it. I miss my Red :-(

Thanks again Jim Elias, Jim Davis, Eric Johnston and every one at Oconnor I am looking forward to all your accessories cause the Cff-1 kicks ass.
 
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