Switching Mounts For Different Lenses On Epic

[Dave Blackham]

Id be interested to hear from anyone who check columation between different mounts. We are fining that you can change a mount and replace the same mount and it goes back with near exact same columation, I don't have figures for this. We are finding that different mounts do need change of back focus though. i.e. PL to Canon or Allstar. We are very careful with our camera columation set up and regularly check it, I don't know how frequently other users check columation on cameras.

[Stephen Williams]

Id be interested to hear from anyone who check columation between different mounts. We are fining that you can change a mount and replace the same mount and it goes back with near exact same columation, I don't have figures for this. We are finding that different mounts do need change of back focus though. i.e. PL to Canon or Allstar. We are very careful with our camera columation set up and regularly check it, I don't know how frequently other users check columation on cameras.

What you are saying matches with my experiance, everytime you replace a PL or Panavision mount you should check. If you always eye focus you might get away without it, fast wide angle lenses may not focus properly at infinity

[Justin Marx]

The supplied torx wrench that came with it.

Do you tighten them in any order, clockwise, counter, etc...

[Dave Blackham]

What you are saying matches with my experiance, everytime you replace a PL or Panavision mount you should check. If you always eye focus you might get away without it, fast wide angle lenses may not focus properly at infinity

We are finding that we can remove a PL mount and replace it and it refits and is near exact collumation. If you switch to an other mount same type then needs flange depth resetting. Also we find that a Red PL mount is slightly different to say a PL A mount system. We check using an IBE collimator.

I asked this in another thread to see if we could set Flange Depth on PL and then say change to EF or Nikon mount but I think the Flange depth needs to be set for the mount intended for use which also implies you need a collimator with inter changeable mounts on it. I'm not sure if this exists or would work due to the very small tolerances involved. Id like to hear from an expert on this.

[Stephen Williams]

We are finding that we can remove a PL mount and replace it and it refits and is near exact collumation. If you switch to an other mount same type then needs flange depth resetting. Also we find that a Red PL mount is slightly different to say a PL A mount system. We check using an IBE collimator.

I asked this in another thread to see if we could set Flange Depth on PL and then say change to EF or Nikon mount but I think the Flange depth needs to be set for the mount intended for use which also implies you need a collimator with inter changeable mounts on it. I'm not sure if this exists or would work due to the very small tolerances involved. Id like to hear from an expert on this.

An autocollimator would fit the bill, it has a star focused at infinity. It's possible to make them fairly cheaply, there was a guy who sold the on Ebay 10 years ago for$175 however he retired.

[Victor MOREIRA]

Switch all the time between PL mount lenses and Canon. No problem at all.

Nice to hear this

[Daniel Stilling]

I used to switch a lot between PL and the Optitek Nikon mount. Was concerned about doing so on set, losing screws, dirt, etc.
So I got the A mount system, and couldn't be happier! It's ridiculously easy to switch between Nikon and PL glass now, with no tools, just exchange the lenses.
Couldn't be happier.

[Joachim Hoge]

I change all the time too. I do make sure to use the set of screws that came with the PL mount only with thePL mount, and the Canon mount with the screws that came with that unit. No problems so far

[Edward Blythe]

Anybody using a Red Focus?

[Uli Plank]

Yes. What do you want to know?