Variable ND for Leica Summilux C?

[J.M. Harper]

Hi all,
I'm filming in India in the middle of a festival crowd and am trying to get the Epic as small as possible (ie. no matte box). I bought a 95mm Variable ND (the diameter size of the lens) but it seems about a millimeter too small for the lens. Has anyone found a non-matte box, non-internal ND solution for these lenses?

best,
JMH

 

[Phil Holland]

I had custom screw owns made for the LSCs back in January, I've since sold them. I wouldn't go Variable, just get yourself 0.3-1.8 depending on what you need.

 

[Zeb B]

Hi all,
I'm filming in India in the middle of a festival crowd and am trying to get the Epic as small as possible (ie. no matte box). I bought a 95mm Variable ND (the diameter size of the lens) but it seems about a millimeter too small for the lens. Has anyone found a non-matte box, non-internal ND solution for these lenses?

best,
JMH

The Leica engineers made the brilliant decision to make a freaky non-standard front thread for those lenses I believe

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Motion mount seems like it would be your best bet.

 

[Phil Holland]

I should mention, various rental houses that carry the Summilux-Cs often carry screw in filters. Otto for instance.

 

[Seth Emmons]

I'm pretty sure that there are screw-in filters available from both Tiffen and Schneider. Band Pro has this sheet on their website with various screw-in options: http://www.bandpro.com/blog/schneider-leica-filters/

As these are specialty products just for the Summilux-C lenses, I wouldn't expect many places to stock them, but check with Band Pro in either Burbank or Munich first.

 

[Aaron McLane]

Band Pro has them. They are great for keeping it small. We have them all and prefer using them even when using a mattebox.

 

[J.M. Harper]

Thanks everyone - very helpful.

 

[Zeb B]

92mm . . . . geez