Okay so yesterday we were talking about seamless follow focus gears right? They are ridiculously expensive and they go as high as 80 dollars. stores.ebay/followfocusgears/ Now there are also zip tie follow focus gears which are also going for 80 dollars aswell ebay/itm/Half-Inch-Rails-Zip-Tie-Follow-Focus-Lens-Gears-gear-6er-Set-/290941374692?pt=Filmnachbearbeitung&hash=item43bd7510e4 And then there are these 4 pack 15 dollar follow focus gears which in generally suck and dont get tightly on your lens. ebay.nl/itm/151254111664?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 The problem with the cheap ones are that they dont get a tight fit like i said but their build quality is amazing, so here is what you need to do to get your own seamless DIY follow focus gear. simple take of the rotating knob part by using a scissors. then wrap your gear around your lens and cut them of where the gears hit each other. make 2 simple holes with a drill or something like that (i heated up a little screw driver and went trough it like that ). take a small zip tie and voila, you now have a insanely tight gear ring (that is even more tight than the seamless ones) for around 4 dollars a piece and they go over any lens that you have :)
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:36:12 +0000