Mike Medavoy

STILL LOOKING! Thank you!

Hi! I am still a big fan of film emulsion. That being said, I am a big fan of digital, too. No need to get into that discussion please. My question is pretty straightforward. What would be the best filter to use on digital (Red Epic Dragon in my case - but it can apply to other cameras, too) to simulate the film halation? (blooming highlights) I have recently shot some 16mm in Times Square and I fell in love all over again with halation and the way film reacts to highlights. Granted, this is 16mm (quickly shot - don't judge) and it halates more than I want. I have shot 35mm and I know halation is less (better controlled) with that format. So, not as much blooming/halation as in these examples, but definitely more than digital, which has none. I know there are several options - satin filter, perleascent, classic soft, and the trusted low contrast and promist/black promist filter versions etc In your experience, what is the best filter to bloom the highlights but leave the rest untouched by a diffusion-like effect? (or maybe just the slightest touch of overall diffusion to help with the film-like effect) Thank you!

Do you have better pictures of the front elements and back elements? Are they in good condition? When was the set serviced? Thanks!

Bump. I am still looking for a reasonably priced BNCR set (Canon K35s) Thank you!

Bump. Thank you!

Still looking! Thank you!

Ideally, the 18mm should be a T1.5, but I'd take a set with the T2.8 18mm as well. Thanks!

Hi! I am looking to buy a Canon K35 lens set in good condition. To save money, I want a lens set in BNCR mounts (not yet converted to PL Mounts which I know is very expensive and time consuming). I can use a BNCR mount on the camera. In good condition and a fair price for BNCR lenses. Thank you! Please contact me at: medavoym@yahoo.com Thank you!

I am still looking! Thank you!

Hi! We are looking for a: CANON K35 18mm T1.5 LENS Preferably in PL Mount, but we would also consider a BNCR lens if the price is right. Thanks! Please let us know at: medavoym@yahoo.com All the best, Mike

Just as the title says... we are looking for a: CANON K35 18MM T1.5 LENS preferably in PL Mount Thanks! Please e-mail me at: medavoym@yahoo.com

I also couldn't mount on my RED a Tegea 9.8mm lens with a custom Century PL mount.

Hi! I am making my own custom mattebox. I want it to take round 4 1/2 (4.5 inch) filters and I want to modify some normal square/rectangular filter trays so they can take them. 5x5 filter trays seem the closest to what I want. If anyone has a couple of them for sale (or close enough to 5x5), please send me an e-mail. Thanks! medavoym@yahoo.com

Hi! I have a Canon 14mm lens in BNCR mount. It's quite hard to put too many filters in front of this lens... after 1-2 filters, it starts to vignette. At the back element, this lens has a thread - I think the diameter of it is about 36-37mm (see attached photo). So I think I could screw onto there a small Tiffen 37mm filter, like an ND when I need it. Would that create image problems? Any downside or things to watch for when doing a thing like that? If not, can I stack in there 2 filters, on top of each other? I'm using it on the RED ONE camera, so shutter clearance is not an issue at all. Thanks for any tips!

Hi David, How exactly should I achieve this? I suspect I need some kind of lens/optical element right behind the ground-glass. Thanks!

The viewfinder is from an Arri 35BL, so for 35mm cameras... I did try it on an actual Arri 35BL and could see the image nicely. Yes, I think I need something to "un-magnify" the image about 2x, for it to be seen in its entirety. Will check those sources - thank you! And will post results, if any.

No luck. I'm sure there's gotta be some optical component in the viewing tube because I can't see any image no matter where I move the eyepiece by itself. I screwed back the eyepiece on the viewfinder extender and removed the big prism system at the other end, and now indeed I get a very sharp (and properly oriented) image in the eyepiece - but I can see only a small part of the imagefrom the ground-glass (about half of it). No matter what I do, I can't get the entire image from edge to edge...

Thanks Mitch! I understand... I will try it later today. Since I already have the viewfinder extender, I can use that as the tube (since the eyepiece already can very easily screw at one end), and cut it at the other end to the right length. I will post results... Thanks again!

Can anyone help with a suggestion?

Hi! I need some help in building a director's viewfinder that can take 35mm BNCR lenses. Like the one from Visual Products (pic attached), which costs $1,800! Obviously I want to do it for much cheaper. In the last few months, I bought the major pieces that I need, all second-hand, eBay etc. So far I got: Arri 35BL viewfinder extender, Arri 35BL eye piece, a BNCR mount from an Arri III camera and an Arri 1.85 ground-glass (although I will try to get a Super 35 instead, if I can find a cheap, second-hand one). So that's my student Frankenstein project (pics of the separate pieces also attached). The last thing now, I need to build an intermediate piece to join the Arri III BNCR mount in front of it to the viewfinder extender behind, which will also obviously hold inside the ground glass carefully placed at a distance of 61.468 mm from the BNCR lens mounting surface (the BNCR flange distance). I need some help, though. When I manually project an image onto the ground-glass and try to look at it from behind through the viewfinder extender (trying to mimic how would I see it through the finished finder), I cannot get it in focus. If I try to move back, everything is fuzzy. If I try to get as close as possible to the gg, I can see just a very small portion in focus (sort of as in macro mode). Whatever I try, I cannot get the complete image in focus and fitting nicely in the viewing area of the extender. That's perhaps because the extender currently has a big prism system inside, at the opposite end from where the eye piece mounts... Should I remove that? I don't know. Can somebody with strong optical knowledge help me out? How can I attach the viewfinder extander behind the groung-glass in order to see the image clearly in focus, edge to edge? Getting back to the Visual Products image and a standard BNCR finder, is there a special prism/viewing system behind the gg slot and inside the viewing tube? I would really appreciate some pointers! Thank you all in advance! Best regards, Mike

Thank you very much for the quick responses! So, you think there would be a definite (observable) decrease in resolution/optical quality with the Supafrosts, even though the desired effect is more or less the same? I can get my hands on complete "white" and "black" supafrost sets, and plan to use them on 35mm and also RED in the coming days (full promist sets will be harder to get). But if the plastic material affects the optical quality of the image I would have seconds thoughts. I can test, of course, and the filters seem to be in good condition, physically (no scratches etc). David, I seem to have read somewhere else that you had direct experience with them. Did they lower the optical quality of the image as opposed to a glass filter? Thanks again! Milke

Hi! Did anyone shoot with both filters? Are they really that similar? Any shared experiences would be greatly appreciated - similarities, differences and so on. Can you use Supafrosts as substitutes for Promists? Thanks so muck! All the best, Mike

Hi! My prime lenses take Series 9 filters. However, for diopters, I only have filters in 4-1/2 size. Is there any drawnack in using them (with a step-up ring) on my prime lenses? They are MUCH larger then the lenses, so I'll be using only the center of the filter. Is that a problem? The same question for split diopters. I'm going to run some tests, of course, but thought of asking anyway - especially since I cannot test the Series 9 equivalents, which match the size of the lenses perfectly. Thanks!

Hello! Does anyone know what lenses were used for shooting MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) by Stephen Frears? Thanks!

No one has experience with this lens?...