RED ONE and Nikon Lenses...

[jaadgy akanni]

No but the Viewfactor Studios Imerio and Inclino will.

The way I see it, if you really wanna be pimping with Nikon glass, you should have both the Birger mount and Viewfactor FF. That's what I'm gonna do. The price points are ridiculously generous; no reason to sacrifice one for the other.

 

[william otto]

Imerio and Inclino.

Got it. Thanks!

 

[Lauri Kettunen]

Red Nikon mount 6-9 degrees out of position

Red Nikon mount 6-9 degrees out of position

I have the Red Nikon mount and it's about 6-9 degrees out of position counter clockwise. The small knob with the spring is located about at 16 minutes in the dial. Anybody else have the same? Of course, in practice it does not matter much, only with lens hoods whose vertical peaks are longer than the horizontal ones.

 

[Jeremy Newmark]

The nikon mount can be rotated easily. It may be that when it was installed the orientation was not "correct". Some people have been installing the mount in the orientation that you describe yours in so that the focus and iris marks can be read from the operator side of the camera. When the mount is in the "correct" orientation the marks can only be read from the top. If you remove the 8 screws, you should be able to spin the mount to your desired postion.

 

[Lauri Kettunen]

The nikon mount can be rotated easily. ...

Jnewm, thanks, but it's not that trivial. This picture should explain the point better than words

 

[Jeremy Newmark]

That makes things much clearer. I obviously did not understand exactly what you were trying to explain. My apologies.

 

[Douglas Underdahl]

Yeah - it is out by the amount that Lauri shows. Not sure why I did it this way exactly, but I assume that it I was thinking that users would ultimately have 8 possible positions for the witness mark so it wasn't ultra important that it have any specific relation to the 8 holes in the mount, as long as there was ample room for the pin actuation mechanism to fit between two of the screws. Also, it didn't occur to me that the "tulip leaves" on the sunshades that come with some lenses would be referenced to the witness mark and be non-adjustable.

I think Lauri is right, that "in practise it does not matter much", especially if you use a matte box in place of the shade, or put your witness mark at 3 pm as is the custom of most 35mm movie cameras (which you can do with the shave-the-connector technique) in which case your shade leaves would really be out of vertical.

Just thinking about this, it also occurs to me that the leaves of the shades are set up for full 35mm 8 perf still frames, and that they could be longer and broader for use with the 35mm 4 perf RED format - might save you from lens flare once in a while over the original leaves.