Red and the infraRED

[Pawel Achtel]

Just wanted to say that after six weeks of shooting with the panchros, they are not the ideal choice.

The "non-mirrored" side of the panchros has an extremely reflective surface. If you are using any other filters and shoot really bright objects you will likely encounter ghosting.

I know another person on this forum who returned his.

I am keeping mine. They are good filters if you use them on their own, but I am going to investigate a set of "regular" ND's.

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com

I just shot with Pancro 2.0 mirror and Schneider True POLA behind. No problems. I used Master Primes with LMB-5 and mattes, which buff stray light exceptionally well. The reason you are getting light reflected may be that either you do not buff stray light well enough or the front element of your lens is highly reflective.
I also tried Red 300mm and it works perfectly well too. The tests were in an environment with lots of white objects on dark background, so the reflections would show clearly, but they don't.
I shot with and against the sun light. No reflections.
Using regular NDs would create muddy images with colour shifts. Not just on Red, but on any camera - been there than that.