They give you all the tools you need to adjust the level with shims, which is pretty much done with several hex screws. The build quality is very high, with most of it metal and only the locking mechanisms being made of plastic. Attaching it to the tripod took seconds, and I only had to pull it off once when I figured out I had attached the quick release plate to my camera at the wrong spacing (unfortunately Nikon’s only have the one screw for tripod plates, they don’t have the whole for the guide pin that video cameras have, so you will need to be careful thatthe plate is exactly straight, I wasn’t and when I added the Matte Box I knew it).
#Pro aim follow focus series#
You get a series of shims to raise or lower the plate depending on the height of your camera. Step 1: Rails – The rails come pre-installed with a quick release plate that has screw threads for all the normal sizes, interestingly they give you two of each so if you ever lose one your OK, also, I discovered the plate is identical in size as the Manfrotto quick release plate I already had on my Miller which was nice but as an added bonus the tension screw can be adjusted if it gets stuck near your camera (the Manfrotto cant do this). Quite surprisingly the packing was excellent, they come in a custom molded set of foam, that you could probably pop straight into a Pelican case (and in fact I probably will) the instructions while sparse and peppered with awesome lines such as ‘The Matte box is mounted with foam so you dont have to worry about your lens during the bumps and grinds of capturing exciting footage’, it does have plenty of pictures and I only had one piece that I looked at and thought, where does this go (I figured it out after a good ten minutes 🙂 So I figured I would step you through the process. Additionally, things like rails are kinda hard to mess up, I mean they are two metal rods! So I pressed the go button on the order and what do you know, about a week and a half later they arrived. Now I’m not an idiot, I can see that a device that is roughly 1 fifth the cost of the real deal is not going to be exactly the same in terms of quality, but I figured worst case scenario the parts will be a good place to start to customizing it to fit my needs with new gears etc. I ordered the combo kit which consists of a set of rails, a quick release plate, follow focus with gears for different sized lenses and a matte box all for a little under $1000 Australian. They sell gear designed specifically for DV and DSLR cameras. So with that in mind and the knowledge that I would NEED a set of rails for my new D300s, I went online and found a kit from DV Accessory’s called the PROAIM. So it goes with my DSLR, I really cant stomach the cost of buying a nice set of Follow Focus Gears, Rails and Matte Box, I would easily be up for around the 3 to 5 grand mark. Allows extremely focusing lenses to be geared and used with Follow Focus industry standard 0.8 module.OK so I am the first person to say ‘buy quality’ but there are some situations where even if you would like to buy the very best, you just cant. Interchangeable Drive Gears for right hand and left hand operations. Variable Lock Mechanism allows quick adjustment of start and end points. Integrated A/B hard stops for accurate focusing. Horizontally Adjustable to Most Lenses. Adjustable Meshing to Eliminate Backlash. Nylon gears and ABS 360 degree Dial Index Adjustment An industry standard focus whip socket is available on the follow focus wheel for optional focus whips to be used by an assistant. The flippable gearbox adjusts the drive gear front and rear and is compatible with lenses of any size. Magnetic marking disk enables to view your focus marks from many angles. Additionally, it features a moveable focus indicator to pull focus from any place on the camera while maintaining the view of focus indicator & focus wheel. It gets clamped to 15mm rods via tightening mechanism controlled by underside knob and offers integrated hard stops for quick focus racking between two focus points. Our zero backlash, metal crafted, quality Flip follow focus by Proaim is a single-sided follow focus with a variable lock system and a base that slides to accommodate different lens constructions.
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