Flange Distance For Red

I'm just starting to work with Red and I don't quite understand how the lenses should be set up. The rental house I am dealing with has several sets of lenses (16mm & 35mm lenses) and they are in the habit of adjusting the backfocus on the camera body every time they change lenses.

Is this is right way to set up the lenses on a Red? Is there a standard flange setting for the Red (as there is with Arri and other cameras)?

Where can I find that information?

Rick Tullis
Steadicam/DP
Beijing

>>I'm just starting to work with Red and I don't quite understand how the lenses should be set up.

Here is my 2 cents, think of the Red like a film camera, and movie PL mount lenses are no different. Lenses are standard 52mm.?

We check the Red with a shop perfect test lens and a auto collimator. ?Once the depth is set if any other lens doesn't look right it is put on a bench collimator and projector to? Calibrate.

Sounds like those lenses need some work.

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Egon,

That's what I thought. But I was a little unclear it the 52mm held true for 16mm lenses if you are shooting in 2K.
Thank you!

Rick Tullis
Steadicam/DP
Beijing

The RED should be set up the same way that a 35mm camera is and then left alone.
In 10 weeks shooting with 2 cameras we had the cameras set-up at the start of the shoot and then just used them.

I seem to recall that we had to swap out one body because it wasn't collimated properly but apart from that we just changed lenses as we normally would.

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