Sam C Roberts Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 (edited) Hi....I just rented a Zeiss 85mm PL mount lens and I notice that when you focus it the whole outside of the lens barrel moves forward and back making it impossble to use my Cinevate follow focus. How do you do follow focus on such a lens (other than by manually turning the focus ring on the lens with your hand?) Edited April 18, 2014 by Sam C Roberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Gregory Irwin Posted April 18, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted April 18, 2014 Hi....I just rented a Zeiss 85mm PL mount lens and I notice that when you focus it the whole outside of the lens barrel moves forward and back making it impossble to use my Cinevate follow focus. How do you do follow focus on such a lens (other than by manually turning the focus ring on the lens with your hand?) I'm guessing that this is an older design where the lens physically "travels". In the past, we had to use extra wide follow focus gears that could accommodate the travel. Newer designs allow the elements to travel inside the barrel in order to not have this issue among other things. G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam C Roberts Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 Thanks Gregory...yes the newer PL's are different.... it is only this one 85mm that I had this problem with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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