Rafael Pankratau

You can see our follow focus at http://rafcamera.com/konvas/accessories/ot...ollow_focus.htm Video assists and bridge plates are made by orders. Thanks

Yes. Here is the picture of the simple matte box made for 2-pieces anamorphics: http://rafcamera.com/images/mca/ka-mb_side.jpg Also, a matte box with folding bellows exists. It is much better, and is not specific for the square front anamorphics. I think that it can be adapted quite easily. No. Neither 1M nor 2M ever had a factory made follow focus. We made our prototype 2 years ago, but at resulting cost of $750 it had not enough demand on the market to continue production. Also, keep in mind that our gears are not for oct-18 lenses. We made them for oct-19 lens. Oct-18 focusing ring is quite close to the camera body, so installation of the geared ring onto them is impossible in most cases of usual primes. Production of these cameras stopped after fall of USSR, so they probably had some plans, but had no ability to make those new things. Also, Russian studios don't shoot with Konvas anymore. Even Belarusfilm has Arri 535. I don't know when exactly Arri cameras became available to USSR studios, but this availability might be another reason why our manufacturers lost interest in renewing of Konvas/Kinor series.

Kevin, LOMO lenses have similar pattern of naming. Basic pattern is 35OKS1-50-2. First digits designate film format (16 or 35mm). May be missing. OKS means 'cine lens' in Russian avvreviation. Next number states lens model. Larger number means newer and better lens usually. Next number means focal length (35mm in your case, or 50mm in my example). Last digit shows variation of the lens model. As to manufacturing year, let me correct James. This year designated by first 2 digits of the serial number. In your case of #890241, you have 241-st lens made in 1989. So, james is right that it is goodd and relatively new lens manufactured only few years befor production has been stopped. As to price of these lenses, this question is actually hard to answer due to RED mania mentioned by James. We tried to make oct-18 adapters of Letus and RedRock Micro M2. Redrock can't be made. Letus will be made, most probably, when my tech reciver from a flu. I would like to try to make adapter for RED, but no one sent me a reference mount yet, so I'm still seeking a way to get technical specification of their flange to see if we can make oct-18 to RED adapter. I we do, price of oct-18 lenses will raise quickly as it was with OCT-19 lenses, because both oct-18 and oct-19 lenses have similar optical blocks (and quality therefore), and only reason of their lower price is their inconvenient mount system.

It is 35mm LOMO lens in oct-18 mount (for a turret Konvas like 1M, 7M, Automat). You can sell this lens for $35-75 usually unless you find someone who thinks that it has PL mount, and then you may sell it for $300 :-)

It is impossible to make an adapter to use oct-19 lenses on an oct-18 camera.

Hi Kevin. First of all, there is no picture of the battery compartment of the controller (power supply unit). This is opposite part of the electronics you've pictured. So, please check if you have a battery installed :-) I'm 99% sure that there is just no battery. "CBET" means "Light" in Russian. It is for external lamp, and doesn't matter.

I have as many as you need :-) http://rafcamera.com/konvas-120m-400ft-mag-p-49.html

Why not to ask me first? :-) Mentioned two screws are exactly what you need to loose in order to release original viewfinder. Anamorphic viewfinder may need some initial adjusting to get undistorted and focused image, but original viewfinder will sit on its place without any adjusting later. Thanks.

It seems that we'll be able to offer such conversion again at $300 per lens.

Shane, Most OCT-19 lenses can be converted to PL. But there are some issues. Konvas lenses (without follow focus gears) are more difficult to convert due to different disign of the focusing mount. You have either to rebuild the whole focusind system (that may cost up to $500 per lens) or to change operation of the lens (distance scale becames immovable, and you focus the lens turning the lens part with index marks). Kinor lenses (with FF gears usually) are much more simple to convert, and we do this at $150 per lens currently.

I don't shoot myself, so I don't have any footage samples, unfortunately...

You can see some smaples at RafCamera ;-)

Though I can't find a record about you in my archive (and thus believe that this wasn't my mount), I suppose that my mounts may have problems with newer PL lenses too. Such lenses are too expensive for us to have one for test purposes, unfortunately, so we are working with old lenses here. But if there is someone who bought our mount and tried them with new lenses, I would like to hear if it works. Thanks.

No, it looks more like oct-19 (for turret Konvas), but I don't know why some sort of two byonet leaves there...

Check http://rafcamera.com/geared-ring-for-konva...nses-p-118.html ;)

We still have no time to work on new version of this adapter, unfortuantely. And it seems that infinity focus problem is due to camera misadjustment, not due to adapter fault. But I still can't test it with Arri. Sorry.

Lenses in OCT-18 mount (like yours) are quite cheap - about $35 per lens.

You may consider our version of such adapter for $99.00 + s/h at http://rafcamera.com/oct18-lens-to-arri-pl...pter-p-320.html

Just in case if someone will mention me ;) , I left eBay recently, and selling from my on-line store or through direct deals. www.RafCamera.com

You can find few zooms at http://shop.rafcamera.com/index.php?main_p...&cPath=27_29_40 ;)

Yes, it will be visible.

I suppose that it will be cheaper to buy spare Automat body. I have them at $199 + shipping. :)

You can find pinouts at http://www.konvas.com/info/power.htm As to connector plugs, I'm out of stock on the power cables, unfortunately.

Last thing to add is that our regular convesrion price is $300-400 per pin.

We can make it, but it will be silent. May be it is more practical to crop from masked gate (1.66)? We can make also non-silent 1.85 gate, but I just don't see many enough resons to make a series of dozen different gate types with only 1-2mm difference.