Nikon buys Red?

[IronFilm]

22 hours ago, Ilkka Nissila said:

Arri's Alexa 35 Base Model isn't a really price reduction of the Alexa 35 as it is missing many features which you can add via additional purchases. If you build up the features to match the full Alexa 35 the price ends up being about the same. 

It doesn't. It's cheaper building it back up. It's a genuine price cut. 

Plus the fact people can exclude the stuff they don't need from their ARRI purchase (then renting it later on, or buying it outright, if a need pops up later on), does indeed significantly drop down the entry price cost for a lot of people. 

  

20 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

So yes, Nikon does use a different direction to turn the focus and zoom rings from every other major vendor. 

Nikon was the first ever to make a popular zoom lens, it's not their fault that other companies decided to ignore this and go away in their own directions. 

[ac6000cw]

On 2/18/2025 at 1:57 PM, eatstoomuchjam said:

Name another major brand that turns the same way as a Nikon.  Canon?  No.  Sony?  No.  Panasonic?  No.  Fuji? No. (excludes some of their vintage photo lenses)  Leica?  No. Olympus?  No.  Zeiss?  No.   Pentax?  Maybe?  Any cinema lens I've ever tried?  No.

Panasonic and Olympus M43 lens zoom rings turn in opposite directions (and it catches me out regularly...), so one of them must be the same as Nikon 🙂

[eatstoomuchjam]

6 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Nikon was the first ever to make a popular zoom lens, it's not their fault that other companies decided to ignore this and go away in their own directions. 

... and the focus ring?  😉

2 hours ago, ac6000cw said:

Panasonic and Olympus M43 lens zoom rings turn in opposite directions (and it catches me out regularly...), so one of them must be the same as Nikon 🙂

Fair enough!  I must be wrong about one of them!  Though don't they both use the same direction for focus?  That's almost worse - if everything is reversed, it's not too hard to convince my fingers to turn backward for a bit.  If only one is reversed, though, chaos will ensue!