Adorama Flashpoint DV DSLR Matte Box Pro Complete Bundle 3

Shawn Lam reviews Adorama's Flashpoint Matte Box, Follow Focus, and Shoulder Rig.

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and today we're gonna be having a look
at the Adorama flashpoint line
love cinema DSLR gear now once are
offered the map box remove onto the
shoulder rig
the fall focus and finish of this review
with their seven-inch
LCD monitor beside me here I have a Sony
FS 700 video camera so it's not a DSLR
line but
on at a remote site to do feature the
fs100 video camera
I but the 700 here and I think I chilled
this one off because it's a typical
arrangement
I'm not big on the DSLR's myself anyways
but this is the
out what I wanna show off so the matte
box here
the purpose of this hi French flags in
this is really protect the lens
and the camera in the major in the
sensor all from
stray light flair coming in really
reduces your picture quality
unless you're JJ Abrams and you want
this dramatic lens flare fax
I which are very hard to control French
flag is one really
efficient way at reducing the light it
works way better than
you know the pedal hoods on a DSLR lens
just covers a larger area
everything's adjustable its strong its
rigid I can not
adjust the tension using the knobs down
here the it's very well made
wanted the features as well over map box
and French flag system
is that it has filter rings so these are
standard four by four filtering you can
put in a variety of lens filters on here
arm generally people like putting in ND
filters when they're using
DSLR's and won the Big reason is that
DSLR's lack neutral density filters
and if you want to achieve a shallow
depth of field you don't want to be
running your shutter speed way up into
the thousands
adding in neutral density filter helps I
don't have any in here right now but
there are two available on this
not park system they just slide into the
top
and go down like that now one of the
neat things about this one and most
systems really is that you want it to be
able to rotate
I'm because routing the filter is very
important
when it comes to having a polarizer
filter
polarizers need to be rotated ND filters
lot of other filters
just drop it straight in but on a
polarizer you definitely want that
ability to rotate it and this matte box
has it
the map box itself it mounts onto a
railing rod system here
this is a standard 15 millimeter rod
it's well built its
its industry standard I'm it's mounted
here on a riser block
and I thought my own tripod plate some
wat kinda works is your tripod plate
goes on to your tripod
mounting block you've got the wrong gods
does a quick release plate here that
supplied
as well as a new tripod plate my little
pet peeve with this tripod plate
is that the plane itself doesn't seem to
be compatible with any
my existing tripods for once I find a
common
the ones I would I user vinton
tripods and I know that I'm very
compatible to really
any other systems out there but the
Manfrotto the 501
have played it's very standard and has a
very standard quick release
it doesn't work in that system there and
I kind of expected would
which you know it just it goes to that
compatibility
and I just ease abuse if I've got that
meant wrote a 501 plate
I can slide it in them on a variety of
my accessories including make rain in my
slider
but this quick release plate his have a
different size
is that be in the world not really
because
I can replace the quick release plate if
I wanted to
but is just one those little things look
small details that
if I was to design this I would have it
standardized men
pro to play just because it seems to be
what a lot of people are using out there
in order to increase the compatibility
the map marked with a wide variety
lenses that have differing sizes at a
rummage shipping a bunch of
neoprene rings here that help bridge the
gap between the lands
and the map box all you do is you simply
slighted
around the front of the lens like
soldiers three different sizes so
it'll fit pretty much all your lenses
and then this part goes into the from
the map box
that just bridges the gap between the
larger opening up the map box
and the the diameter of lens there
really once again
the whole purpose a map box in this
application is to make sure
stray light is in healing that lands
moving on to the Follow Focus
Adorama has has stepped year
follow focus system which is really what
most systems are built upon and has
stepped you're really means that
a large turn on the outer ring equals a
smaller turn
on inside when you can have a lot more
precise control
over your focus the lens and I'm using
here is a rockin on
24 millimeter T 1.5 cine lens on
emailed she's native with this FS 700
so on not camera including the Adorama
Follow Focus kid
isn't had on external gear system here
the
this really is just to modify an
existing asl our lands
and had on years on the outside it's red
on both sides the inside
drips onto the the proper power %uh the
caller on
your your focus ring and then the
outside
matches up with the gear system here so
you
don't need cine lenses to use a full
focus and these are very easy to
to convert your existing lens system to
end your system
having a step your system really adds
the precision and trying to hit
focus mark when you're trying to repeat
at her to do it on the flight but it's
another thing to have
marks already pre rehearsed and locked
in
and the out around the whole focus
system allows you to do that
there's these blue pins here I just
I'm screw them and turn and can lock
them down so
censure what you do is you would find
the starting point I'll wear your
in focus on one object mark that
and then to complete a rack focus you
find a second point maybe a second
object you want to focus on
and would mark that here's while and
then all you do to achieve iraq focus
while you're alive
is to turn between these two blue marks
you can mail you focus
in Iraq focus perfectly every time what
are the really nice things about the at
around the flashpoint
components is that you can combine them
to make systems
and larger parts were there all designed
really to be interchangeable
a good example that is the shoulder rig
I could see here here's the backing out
and what I would do is i would not this
on the back above the rails here
and then you have the handles it go on
the front this obviously goes to the
rail system
and have said handles here and I can
take this off the sticks
angle hand-held I can also how this
attache at the same time on here
but I know myself really well I don't
really go hand held a special
the rig like this it's a little bit on
the heavy side for me but
on if you have a letter DSLR or if you
really want to question
go for you definitely can so it's a very
modular system
I wanted I could have it mounted on
their I could put on for later
but in general it's it's really designed
to be compatible system
and interchangeable and modular
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