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Phil's NAB Journal 2013

Phil Holland said:
I would say most Red shooters I come across that use V-Mount or Gold Mount have some sort of "cable" tethered solution. Good if you have to go to shoulder, steadicam, jib, etc.... I've never looked at it as a negative. There's a lot of options now and the modular concept is key. The Quad Redvolt Module isn't that long to me and I see in the rigging threads a lot of folks who have mounted shoulder braces right under there. I guess to each their own. There is the Dual that's a bit shorter. Just depends on what your needs are.




That's interesting. I have 4 and I timed about 26 minutes with EF glass and the 5.0" LCD Touch. No auto focus enabled though. Do you have additional accessories attached that could draw power? This was as recently as the 4.0 builds in the firmware.

I'm thinking about adding some XLs (don't currently have them) to my kit for flight/travel use. I'm normally using larger and heavier V-Mounts locally. Gotta go to London at the end of May for a heartbeat. Might do something more travel friendly.
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i have 6 redvolts and always make sure to drain and charge them to keep them at their max....i also use EF glass, no AF and the 5"...firmware 4...on scarlet....the problem really is that regardless 15 or 25 min....unless there is some other power in place, the swap (and fear of it) is a pain....i will probably get the belt clip v mount cable and keep that handy....i have plenty of v mounts and it is the cheapest solution....
 
This

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seems to have come a long way from this

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Patrick Grossien said:
This

seems to have come a long way from this
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I spoke to Matt for some time regarding Quickplates, modularity, and design. That new compact shoulder pad isn't exactly done yet, as you can tell by the temporary foam, however, it looks like the new focus is on options and remaining light weight. Matt's cored out the Quickplate Shoulder Frame to minimize the material that you have on the camera while remaining strong enough to support a hefty load. In terms of modular design there are currently mounting points on the frame itself to attach accessories.

Based on the current angle of the shoulder pad something I can see this particular design being great for is for folks who like to mount their shoulder rigs at "lung height" as opposed to head height. With the combination of shooting say 19mm rods off the top and going to a back brace and shoulder pad you can essentially reconfigure your Clutch shoulder rig from head to lung operation with the addition of not many extra components and you want fast the discomfort of pressing the camera body right up to your chest.

Just a thought. Kinda waiting on these new Quickplate components. I think there's a lot potential for operation and rigging while keeping the camera small, both when packing and setup.
 
Sounds like a good path they are treading with these ideas.

( although I must say I sadly can't picture your idea with the clutch you mentioned - maybe it's the language barrier :) )

Really anxious to see what's coming up. I would say it would be great to have a backpack that attaches directly to the modules without the need of the adaptor plate. And they should sell the backpack itself without the cheese plate as soon as other acc come along to keep the cost down for us. $1200 is a high starting point for " just a QR plate ". The half plate you photographed will probably be a lot lower, too, but maybe not attachable to the back of the modules and / or brain.
 
There are some folks who like to operate their shoulder rigs from below their shoulder out there. Similar to this:

Michael Mayda said:
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I can see some interesting potential with existing support products, mostly the ones that come with the Clutch, and how to set them up for this type of operation.

I'm 5'6" and typically like my camera and lens about eye height, so I have it on the shoulder. However, I can see a lot good reasons to shoot lower this way for certain shots.
 
Gabriel Scindian said:
Phil,

I want this.
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lol. I think a lot of us who travel a lot do.

I'd love to have one of these in London at the end of May. Don't know where they are in the development cycle though.
 
Phil Holland said:
There are some folks who like to operate their shoulder rigs from below their shoulder out there. Similar to this:



I can see some interesting potential with existing support products, mostly the ones that come with the Clutch, and how to set them up for this type of operation.

I'm 5'6" and typically like my camera and lens about eye height, so I have it on the shoulder. However, I can see a lot good reasons to shoot lower this way for certain shots.
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You're the best! This explains it. :)
I thought you were talking about something to quickly change back and forth from low to shoulder.
I'm 6'2" so sometimes mounting the camera on the shoulder is a bit to high... Mostly I press it against my chest then. Not ideal though... Not at all...
 
For those who missed the announcement this week, Zeiss announced it's new 15-30mm T2.9 Compact Zoom to flesh out the set of the other CZs. The 28-80mm T2.9 and 70-200mm T2.9.

http://www.newsshooter.com/2013/09/08/zeiss-take-wraps-off-new-15-30mm-t2-9-cine-zoom/

I intend on likely purchasing these three zooms within the next year if all goes according to plan. I'll likely test them out first however and share my results.

My interest in this set is these are not like the CP.2s. The CZs are indeed new optical designs that are designed to cover 24x36mm sensors. Making them ideal for Red Dragon 6K coverage. I'd say a set of these zooms along with the Schneider Xenon-FF Primes are a nice combo personally, although not exactly the same look. You'd likely want a set of diopters in there as well as non of these focus particularly close.

However, optically the Zeiss Compact Zooms that I have looked at, the 28-80mm and 70-200mm, are very nice.

I've mentioned that one of my highlights of NAB 2013 was chewing the ear off of Helmut Lenhof for about an hour at the Zeiss booth. He asked me to guess what the additional wide length was that they were working on in the series. I stated in the first post:

Phil Holland said:
It will likely be in the 15-35mm range or at least close to it. It's currently under development.
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He gave me a funny look. I was alarmingly close :) I knew it'd be 15mm wide for sure. Shocked a bit the stopped at 30mm. However, I was also shocked on the 28-80mm did not end up being a 25-80mm. Sort of makes sense because they must enjoy messing with my brain.

It should be available by April 2014. Maybe a bit before.


In other lens news that was also discussed here. Canon has officially announced the CN-E 35mm T1.5 a bit ago, which should be out by December. Duclos Lenses is taking pre-orders now.
 
Chad Lancaster said:
I was thinking about moving from my Leica R lenses to the compact zooms. The only thing I don't like is the close focus of the 28-80. Any word when the 15-30 will be available?
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Supposed to be shipping April 2014. There might be a few early ones.
 
So I've got some bad news on the lens front here. I've been in constant contact with Zunow and Alphatron regarding the Imperial Primes, they were a T1.5 set of primes that covered FF35 and ideal for Dragon plus they were going to be very affordable.

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This morning I got an email that I won't quote, but there were some quality control issues regarding these lenses and the last batch made prior to IBC wasn't exactly up to snuff.

At the end of that mail, it was mentioned that there's a good probability that these lenses won't make it to market.

So in terms of "designed for full frame" that's giving you. Zeiss, Schneider, Canon as options in the immediate future.
 
Zeiss CP.2?

Schneider Xenon FF-Primes ?

Canon CN-E?
 
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Will Keir said:
Zeiss what?

Schenider CN-E?

Canon what?
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Well it's no secret I'm a Schneider Cine-Xenar owner and I do like the idea behind the Xenon-FF Primes.

Zeiss's new CZs are really worth looking at.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to glass. Canon's CN-E aren't my "favorite" cinema lenses, mostly because they really aren't. However, I do have their EF counter parts and I do use them. I like them for what they are. CP.2s sort of fall in the same realm. Except I'm really fond of that 15mm and 135mm.
 
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