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WTB: RedRock Follow Focus and MatteBox

Timothy McLin

Timothy McLin

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I'm currently looking to pick up a cheap, but decent follow focus. Through the other recent thread I fell in love with the Cinevate Durus as so many others have, unfortunately I think I'd rather save a little for the time being and pick up a used RedRock as it also seems to perform well and should be fine for what I'm doing.

A number of users in that thread mentioned having a few they were welling to sell, I'm hoping there are still a few out there and I might be able to take one off of somebody's hands.

I'm also looking for a mattebox, I'm currently still shooting HDV and on 15mm rods so I'd like something compatible. I was actually looking at RR's Red Bundle as well because of the 15/19mm arm so that it wouldn't have to be a purchase I'd be looking at making or upgrading again for awhile.
 
The RedRock RED Mattebox contains a 19mm/15mm studio arm, but it won't work on most 15mm HDV set ups.

For that you need the 15mm lightweight zoom arm.

The difference is in the spacing of the 15mm iris rods.

In the studio arm the spacing is 100mm center to center

In the lightweight zoom arm the spacing is 60mm center to center.

So, I have been using a RED kit, and I am purchasing my own lightweight zoom arm to go with that mattebox/kit.

I really recommend picking up the RedRock case to go with the mattebox. If you do this, do make sure and get the 19mm edition case, because that has cut outs for both the arms, plus it fits three stages better.

The RedRock filters are nice enough and economical. The ND isn't strong enough for me though. You can get a very good Schneider filter kit from Filmtools. The two together make a great starting filter kit. Next I'd add a diffusing filter, a CTB if you shoot RED One Mysterium (don't know if M-X needs it) and a stronger pair of ND grad filters (vertical and horizontal.)
 
Thanks for the advice Alexander, another user also informed me of the difference in spacing which I had overlooked. I appreciate that and the filter advice!
 
have you checked out shoot35.com ? I just bought theirs and it is very nice for the price.

I am not affiliated with them in any way however.
 
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