![]() It could become an issue if you have to switch your follow focus from the smart side to the dumb side of the camera or vice versa, but this will be the case with any gear that is not permanently mounted to the lens in a continuous circle. The screw closure at the top is pretty big and can be more obtrusive than the closure systems of some of the other manufacturer's lens gear options, but if you tighten it onto the lens in the right position to work with your follow focus configuration, this shouldn't be an issue. One of the PROAIM gears on a lens, connected to the DFocus follow focus I was able to pay with PayPal, and the rings were shipped promptly and arrived quickly. That comes out to just $14 per ring, including shipping. I paid $84 for seven gear rings (5 of the 55-65mm size and 2 of the 65-75mm size), plus $14 for shipping. The rings are available in six different sizes, meant to fit around lenses with diameters of 55mm to 110mm. You will probably not see just a set of the gear rings for sale on eBay, nor on The CineCity website, but if you contact the seller of the follow focus on eBay, or email The CineCity at they will sell them to you. I wasn't interested in the follow focus, but it turns out you can order just the gear rings, if you are so inclined, for a mere $12 each. They turned out to be the lens gears included with the "PROAIM" follow focuses from India that you've no doubt seen for sale on eBay. I was just about resigned to the fact that I was going to have to spend several hundred dollars on gear rings for my ten or so lenses, when I came across a post on the Cinema5D forum mentioning cheap lens gears. The gear rings are available in six sizes to fit lenses with diameters of 55-65mm, 65-75mm, 75-85mm, 85-95mm, 90-100mm, and 100-110mm Or, to put it another way, let me quote The Frugal DP's First Rule of Frugality: "A Good Camera Package is a Proportionate Camera Package." Actually I made that up just now, but it sounds good, and I'm sure I will be coming back to it again and again. Just as the frugal DP doesn't believe in paying more for a follow focus than on the camera it is to be used with, he also doesn't believe in paying more for gear rings than a follow focus. These prices may not seem all that outrageous if you have one zoom lens that needs a gear ring, but if you have a whole bunch of prime lenses (the subject of a future post, I'm sure) and a couple zooms to outfit, you can see how the cost could escalate quite quickly to potentially many times that of the follow focus, or in some cases, even the lenses themselves. The least expensive gears I could find were those sold by Jag35 and made by the maker of the DFocus itself, the $30, one size fits all DGear. ![]() After all, what good is a follow focus if the lenses you are pulling focus on are not geared to use one? I looked into many available lens gear options - the $165 Chrosziel Flexi Gear ring, the $65 Zacuto ZipGear, the $45 Redrock microLensGear (which I believe is actually a reduction in price from the time I was looking at them) - but on cost alone, none of them lived up to the standards of a truly frugal DP. When I first heard about the DFocus, my excitement about the price was somewhat tempered by the daunting prospect of outfitting all my lenses with expensive gear rings. In my last post, I reviewed the amazingly inexpensive DFocus follow focus. Remarks: This is a well buit follow focus.21Jul/10 Off The Frugal DP: PROAIM Lens Gear Rings – Allows extremely focusing lenses to be geared and used with Follow Focus industry standard 0.8 module. – Interchangeable Drive Gears for right hand and left hand operations. – Variable Lock Mechanism allows quick adjustment of start and end points. – Gear can also be changed from side to side. – Speed crank for precision-controlled manual focus racking. – Integrated A/B hard stops for accurate, smooth and precise focusing. Elevate your craft create awesome and effective shots with professional-quality product. Made of anodized aluminum ends with a stainless steel shaft, the crank contains absolutely no plastic. The Speed Crank switches your follow focus unit to crank operation. The included magnetic marking disk enables to view your focus marks from various angles. ![]() It helps to prevent obstruction in the view during lens adjustments and allows you to create more complex shots and scenes. ![]() Additionally, the Follow Focus DSLR features movable indicators which allow pulling focus from the different place on the camera. Integrated Hard stops will let you set start/end points on DSLR lenses for quick focus racking between two focus points. Description: Proaim introduces its most durable HS-1000 follow focus allowing you to smoothly and accurately pull focus with cinema and DSLR lenses equipped with gear rings.
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