Tag Archives: Chrosziel

Otto Nemenz Moves

Otto Nemenz International (ONI) has moved to a huge new facility at 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City, CA 90230. We usually list specifications for cameras and lenses. Here are a few specs about the new place. These details tell a lot of the story: 38,000 square feet 41 employees 21 prep bays 2 large feature prep rooms 128 parking spaces 345… read more…

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LED Lens Projector & News From Chrosziel

Chrosziel introduced a new, cool, bright LED lens projector with remote focus capability. No more burnt fingers fumbling in the dark of a lens testing room at the rental house or lens repair facility. Chrosziel also has a new Handgrip Extender and Zoom Rocker. read more…

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Chrosziel Cage

Last call to send ideas and suggestions on Chrosziel’s cage for DSLR and compact-sized cameras. Keep the color coding? Hot/cold shoe? Visit the Chrosziel forum. More background information on the Cage Project. Test versions of the MultiCage plus system ship to participating dealers next week.

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Chrosziel at Schneider Optics

Chrosziel collimators and lens projectors are industry standards in almost every rental house worldwide. Their new CamCollimator C-LCC is smaller, less expensive, and more versatile. What does a collimator do? A collimator measures the flange focal distance (distance from lens mount to image plane) of lenses. For PL lenses, the magic number is 52 mm. Whereas some collimators use a Siemens… read more…

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Chrosziel on Sony F3

At IBC, Chrosziel showed an ingenious system to support a Sony F3 and SR-R1 Memory Recorder. It’s light, stylish, practical and comfortable. The SR-R1 Memory Recorder lets you record Sony S-Log 10 and 12-bit RGB 4:4:4. It connects via cable directly to the F3. The SRMemory cards, about the size of an iPhone, come in 256 GB, 512 GB and… read more…

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FDTimes NAB Edition Contents

FDTimes April 2011 double issue 41-42 hits the halls of NAB on opening day: at 9 am on Monday April 11, 2011. Pick up your complimentary copy of Film and Digital Times from the publication bins in the Central Hall Main Lobby and South Hall Upper Lobby, at our booth C9550, and at the booths of our sponsors, including Sony, Fujinon,… read more…

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December Issue now online for Subscribers

Our 96 page December Issue 36-38 of Film and Digital Times is now online. Subscribers: click on the MEMBERS tab, above. The print edition has gone to press. It will be in the mail soon. Our cover says “Converging Worlds.” Although convergence and 3D certainly has everyone’s attention, this is the historic year of convergence and collision between consumer and professional… read more…

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FDTimes New Issue 32+33 Now Online

Film and Digital Times Mid-Year Cine Gear 2010 Edition (issue 32+33) is now online for subscribers. We will be all over Cine Gear. Visit us at Booth # 126 for a complimentary paper copy. See you there: June 4-5.www.cinegearexpo.com

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New Chrosziel Swing-Away-System

Do you wish your mattebox would swing away from the lens, but doesn’t? Now it can. With Chrosziel’s patented, new Direct Swing-Away-System DSW, all matteboxes and sunshades for 15mm rods can now swing away to speed up lens changes and gate checks. The new DSW 500 Adaptor works on most matteboxes, not only on those from Chrosziel. The estimated price of 328 Euros… read more…

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Style Your Sony F35

Cinematographers and Rental Houses are afflicted with an obsession identified as “Retrofit Syndrome.” I don’t think there ever was a DP who didn’t immediately drill holes into a newly-purchased camera, and there certainly never was a camera that escaped Otto Nemenz’s or Denny Clairmont’s attention to detail and styling. “Retrofit Syndrome” was described by Bill Bennett, ASC, as “never being… read more…

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All about about lens diameters

The most comprehensive guide to the outside diameters of all the lenses we use in motion picture film and digital production–from Chrosziel: http://www.chrosziel.com/data/chrosziel/media/doc/Overview_lens_diameters.pdf Helpful for picking filter sizes, matteboxes, mattebox donuts and much more.

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