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yes it logged me out - Im back in all ok

remove the bayonet mount with the grub screws on the side of it then buy 3 x 77mm cheap UV filters for $1 off ebay remove the glass fron the filters araldite them to the rear ring of the century to bring it upto the height of the rear element - lastly add a 77-72 step down ring as the final part of the stack... I have 77 - 72mm step down rings on my Nikon and Tokina lenses so they take Tiffen 72mm NDs -----

conversrly if you adaptor is too loose I use cloth sticky tape and cut small 5mm strips and place on the edge of the adapter to take up the slack - add extra strips as needed to stop any movement .

if you want Carl Zeiss the best for the money are the Contax Carl Zeiss in C/Y mount - superb glass great warm colours and nice blacks good modern contrast and very sharp!! 25mm f2.8 Distagon 28mm f2.8 distagon 35mm f2.8 Distgon 50mm f1.7 Planar they will last you a lifetime!! put them on a Canon - micro 4/3 Mitakon Zyhonji Lens Turbo and they become f2 and even sharper and wider (x0.7) or get the Yahsica ML equivilants as they are made in the same factory and are optically almost identical and ALOT cheaper I've posted lots about the Ysshicas .....so search the posts on them on this forum.

thats interesting - good to know - put one of you class 10 cards in hit record and see how long it records for - to make sure there are no long record time issues for you with them

the contax zeiss 50mm f1.7 C/Y is a killer lens my fave 50mm - get one!!

Yes make a rig just for this lens as it is so big and needs support .l have a set of rods with a manfrotto small quick release plate for the camera and a lens support to hold the end of the lens.l use a cable tie to hold the end of the lens tight onto the lens support.

we are in very good company DP's Roberto Schaefer, Trent Opaloch, Newton Thomas Sigel, Phil Meheux , Oliver Woods and Barry Ackroyd use them too. they are using the AF-D NIKKOR ED not the AFS version (which is actually sharper!!) here is TLS that rehoused them for PL mount http://www.truelens.co.uk/index.php?webpage=product_detail.php&product_id=484672&cID=52369

yeah the 70-200 is not as good optically as the 80-200 , Nikon made a weaker lens in the 70-200 and charged us more for it !! plus they took the manual apperture off it too!! so the 80-200mm is king !! stunning lens I was filming with mine today .

welcome to the forum Amook try a shoulder rig , I use one all the time for hand held work

there are some very good bargins on ebay and pro resellers - Im getting email lists every week with Red Ones on them. It is very tempting ! Alot of great films where shot on Red One MX - it will need all the rigs etc to make it work Fincher was using it not long ago!!

I like having both the Nikon and the Tokina even though they are the same focal lengths they both have very good looks that are uniquely different . The Nikon I like to think has a look like an Arri Zeiss Master Prime - a very modern clean strong blacks v sharp wide open modern cinema glass look like Fincher uses (they did use this lens on Bourne) where as the Tokina has a certain Mojo about it that is probabally more filmic than the Nikon , it just makes everything looks great!! - I always shoot both lenses at f2.8 inside , outside day or night!! get the Tiffen NDs on it !!

I know !! Nikon and Tokina are my fave lenses also !!

yes most of the HFT ones do - for that 'Taxi Driver' Bokeh look

post us some footage when you get a chance - thanks

on a different note - I recently 'gutted' a fly by wire lens and make it flly manual. I picked up a broken Nikon 18-105mm f3.5 fly by wire lens off ebay that had been dropped. So I took it to bits removed all the motors and took out the fly by wire apperture . ripped out all the circuit boards and ribbon cables re assenbled it into a manual fully wide open lens , araldited a Canon adapter on the back as the plastic Nikon mount was broken. It works very nicely as a manual lens now - just add NDs to drop the light into it - and it was £20 off ebay broken.

If I have to shoot on my Canon FF I'll stick the 24-105mm L series on it and that covers 90% of shots on that one lens .

gimmie a 28-70mm zooom on super 35 and Im a happy man - I can do most shots on one lens then ......maybe a 20mm for very wides too and I'm done.

Red files need transcoding before you load them into Avid etc - this adds time and cost onto any job you do - worth remembering

just get one that looks different to the ones you have - they are all cheap on ebay

Mine is: PRO SERIES HD 0.7X WIDE CONVERTER CENTURY OPTICS USA THIS one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-Century-Precision-Optics-Pro-Series-HD-0-7X-Wide-Angle-Converter-/161521166784?pt=UK_Photography_Conversion_Lenses&hash=item259b6969c0 remove the rear bayonet mount - araldite on a stack of 77mm rings

​yes FF - my main super 35 fave lengths are 28mm 40mm 70mm you can shoot a whole film on those 3 just out of interest why are we doing this at FF - ??? and not super 35mm

35, 50 105 but....I dont shoot full frame - only super 35 -

buy a different brand c/y -eos adapter I have 3 different ones off ebay - some are tight some are loose - buy a few is the best way

ebay is the best place for centrury wide adapters - the x0.7 is practically optically neutral - just makes it wider and it is very useful - I added the 77mm ring on the back of it as it comes with a sony bayonet fitting on the rear for a broadcast lens. just remove this the x.55 need a diopter adding behind it to pull the focus in on it as it ment for use on a B4 back focus lens . by adding the diopter it that makes it work. there is edge distortion on this as x.55 is a massive jump!! with a speedbooster as well it makes your 28-70mm a very useful lens set