Arri accessories and RED

[Medavoym]

Hi!

If you have all the accessories from an Arri 35mm camera -- baseplate, dovetail, 15mm rods (spaced at 100mm), follow focus, mattebox, including prime lenses and so on - can you use them with the Red? I imagine not immediately, but with some trivial modifications (camera raiser for the RED body, custom mounts for the digital magazine and for the battery etc) I think that would not be a problem.

That way, those who move from an Arri to RED can save a bit on the BASIC PRODUCTION PACK or the PREMIUM PRODUCTION PACK. I hope the battery and the magazines are not designed so you can't use them with your own mounts on your own (previously bought with good money) camera accessories.

[Brook Willard]

You seem to be on the mark here - at most the camera will require riser or offset plates to interface with an existing Arri system. The battery is a standard V-mount system and the RED-DRIVE is - at most - an adapter away from mounting on anything you want.

Also remember that every part of the RED accessory packages will be available on its own. If you only need certain parts to interface with your system... only buy those parts!

Modularity rocks.

[tj williams]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/751_1173805899.jpg

Looking at an Arri 3 on standard arri accessories it sure looks like only a small block and you are in business using Std Arri stuff. We have some of this too and Ihave been planning to have a block machined. If several of us went in it will be cheaper!

[chuck colburn]

There's always lots of stuff on ebay and else where that can be put togeather to make a nice looking package.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ARRI-ARRIFLEX-SR-sliding-dovetail-base-and-bridge-plate_W0QQitemZ260095101416QQcategoryZ4690QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Arri-two-stage-6-6X6-6-Matte-box-plus-accessories_W0QQitemZ140093652056QQcategoryZ43479Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Medavoym]

Great!

Now I only need a BNCR mount for the RED :-)

I guess one will be manufactured until I can get the camera towards the end of this year, beginning of 2008.

[chuck colburn]

Great!

Now I only need a BNCR mount for the RED :-)

I guess one will be manufactured until I can get the camera towards the end of this year, beginning of 2008.

If it's just a zoom your talking about perhaps it would be less costly to have it remounted.

[Medavoym]

No, 5 prime super-speeds, two zooms, a BNCR director's viewfinder, plus the 35mm camera itself with a BNCR mount.
If I remount the lenses I lose the 35mm system which is built around the BNCR.
I'm almost sure someone will come up with a BNCR mount, no? If not RED. There are too many superb BNCR lenses out there, and usually cheaper to buy/rent.

[Stephen Williams]

No, 5 prime super-speeds, two zooms, a BNCR director's viewfinder, plus the 35mm camera itself with a BNCR mount.
If I remount the lenses I lose the 35mm system which is built around the BNCR.
I'm almost sure someone will come up with a BNCR mount, no? If not RED. There are too many superb BNCR lenses out there, and usually cheaper to buy/rent.

Hi,

Expect to pay nearer $1000 for a BNCR mount, Fries Engineering used to make a selection of mounts for their Mitchell conversions, the Nikon was about $650 & the BNCR about $950. (Don't have a price list with me right now).

I am sure somebody can fabricate one for you, maybe Chuck will offer!

Stephen

[chuck colburn]

Ah Stephen,

If only I could. I'm basically retired. I would love to have a Bridgeport and a Clausing and a Brown&Sharpe surface grinder right now! I would make Medavoym a hard front for free just because he's not afraid to use some classic glass. An enterprising machinest could keep busy just making mounts for this new camera (Contax, Leica etc.). Not to mention all those aux. dodads that they would want. When I left Hoolywood to move up here to the sticks I gave four tool boxes of precision instruments and various pieces of camera and optical tooling to a young man who was turning into a accomplished tech. Most of those tools came to me from old timers who saw that I was going to make a career of being a cine tech. So I thougth I should do the same. Kinda wish I had kept my auto collimator though!
Oh yeah, I've turned into a whizz at repairing fishing reels! LOL

Chuck