Chrosziel DV Follow Focus?

[chuck colburn]

Everything I have ever heard from RED has been about 19mm rods.

Things must have changed. I remember not all that long ago that the plan was to make the unit adaptable with 15mm rods on either 60 or 100mm centers and 19mm rods on standard 105mm centers.

Oh well

[Mike Prevette]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthr...?t=4319&page=8

[Zakaree Sandberg]

u can use 15 or 19

[chuck colburn]

That's what I thought.
thanks Zakaree

[Mike Prevette]

Everything everyone has talked about has been 19mm and an ADAPTER to use 15mm but not a 15mm native base?

all of our accessories are meant to bolt to 19mm diameter rods.. so if there is any 19mm pipe on your chair, they should bolt right on. If you have any ideas, Im sure Matt would love to hear them.

[chuck colburn]

Mike,

Looks like that riser must be one of the "accessories". And since 15mm and 19mm systems use different heigths that would make sense. I remember one early photo showing 15mm rods that clamped right along side the camera body. I think this is why I'm confused...mayby. lol

Chuck

[Jaime Vallés]

Thanks for all the feedback, guys. Good to know the Chrosziel DV FF works well. Has anyone used the Petroff?

Also, I know that RED's rails system works on 19mm rods. But, if I'm going to buy a Mattebox and Follow Focus that both use 15mm, can I just buy something like this (see attached pic), which is 15mm rods from the start? Why deal with different size rods, if all my accessories will work on 15mm rods? Or am I missing something important?

[Mike Prevette]

Jamie, the key is the distance from the center of the rods to each other and the distance from the center of the rods to the center of the lens. 19mm is what the camera is set up for which has a wider center and a deeper center than either 15mm standard. So In order to use 15mm accessories you have to use one of the adapters pictured above WITH a the 19mm set up. It's a total drag. I'm going to try and get a basic adapter made that would circumnavigate that and give you 15mm LW with no 19mm set up. It would work like the Chroziel LW rod setups for the full sized cameras (900's and varicams) We shall see.

_mike