chris bangma

Cinetronic can repair your monitor with a new screen, optically bonded, and with led backlight. The screen is also brighter than the original. $850

Sales are through film-stuff.com, go on the website and place the order, its all there.

Have you tried emailing? Always the fastest way. We are often busy or on set.

Cinegear / Stabilizer Expo sale, stock up while on sale. Preston motor mounts and bushings at the lowest price anywhere.

Preston motor mounts $125

Heden motor adapters $35

19mm Reducer bushings $15

Arri 1-2-3 blocks, 1 stage $95, 2 stage $125, 3 stage $150

Arri rods $75

Arri Alexa Plates $500

Cinetape eyebrow mount $50

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And as far as value, products go down in value. We don't have to offer an upgrade, we could just come out with a new model and that is it, sell your old one and buy a new one. Instead we offer to upgrade the monitor to FullHD for a reasonable price. For many customers, the upgrade price and their original price still ends up being less than buying a new Gen2+.

By upgrading, it brings the monitor up to full value, since you will now have the current model, and not the previous generation. The warranty is also extended by a year, so pretty much you get a new monitor for less than 1/3 the cost.

We will have upgraded touch boards for the Gen2 monitors.

I never said anyone had to upgrade to fix faults. As for the monitor losing value, considering the gen2 will be shortly discontinued, the value will go up. Do you complain to red that the red one is pretty much worthless? Or complain to arri that a 435 that cost 120k is pretty worthless now as well.

As for moving to a new screen, this is natural progression. The screens we currently use now have been discontinued. The screens that Smallhd use have also been discontinued. So it's only natural to find new alternatives to support things in the long term.

Afton, we know you have your own separate agenda, but enough is enough. With over 130 monitors in the field, I would say for the most part it works as intended.

All 750 bought through a middle company.

No Alan, Mike and I designed and manufactured the new housing for the panel, and the light guide. We took a panel that supposedly could not convert to high bright and did it. We have had that panel as high as 3000 nits brightness.

The touch technology was the best available at the time I designed it over 3 years ago. Now better chips are available. Afton I still don't see why you need to continually complain about a monitor you no longer own.

Maybe you should buy the smallhd HB, which ironically has a high bright screen that my partner Mike and I designed and manufactured.

Gen2+ will have touch buttons unaffected by rain.

The libra head ran for many years with gyro only feedback, and it was accurate. If you keep all the timings correct, you can have a head that is quite repeatable, despite not having direct feedback.

The problem with the transvideo, is that it feeds out a voltage on the tally line, and it is looking for this line to be shorted to ground. The cinelive feeds a voltage when the tally is on. So basically you have both trying to feed each other, which doesn't work. You would need a relay between the cinelive and transvideo. When the tally light is on, the relay will close, and connect the 2 lines on the transvideo monitor.

In preparation for transitioning to the Gen2+, we are clearing out the inventory of our current screens. These will be the last of the Gen2 and Gen1 monitors, all monitors after this will be Gen2+.

Gen2 7" Monitor $2999, yoke $175

New Gen1 6.5" monitor $1600

New Gen1 7" monitor $1800

Refurbished Gen1 6.5" monitor $1200

7" on board monitor $2600

On Panavision cameras the mirror and the shutter are separate. They are both tied together and always run at the same speed in reference to each other.

Gen2+ Monitor $4950

Gen2 Monitor $3600

All camera accessories, Alexa plates, Preston motor brackets etc, 10% off.

The Cinetronic Gen2+ will be available before Cinegear, and has the highest brightness highest resolution 7" screen. The screen is FullHD 1920x1080, so you can see every detail. This screen also has the widest viewing angle and highest contrast of all the 7" screens available. All this combines to be the most daylight viewable steadicam monitor available.

I don't necessarily have the time or resources to make these for the masses. But I think somebody could make a small profit off of a short, intermediate cable that goes between the Tally Port and Tally Cable on the Cinelive to offer a sensitivity adjustment potentiometer. Or would a small intermediate module that plugs into the Monitor Port and passes through all other Monitor functions be better? Similar to the PDL form factor..

This would actually be quite small, probably 1/2" square. The biggest part would be the connectors in and out. This is something we could easily make if there is interest. Or a possibility would be a complete tally sensor with the adjustment built in, if you think there is demand for this.

Chris, ok, so you havn't given a solution .. apparently this is working for other cinelive/cinetronics users.. but not for me ..

I tried attaching the sensor to the front light on a PDW700 viewfinder .. still no love .. the sensor needs a direct torch light aimed at the sensor to light up the cinetronic Tally..

We can send you a standard tally board, but you would have to add a resistor to the tally sensor cable to set the sensitivity.

It is pretty simple, and could be made quite small. Just need a chip that is a voltage comparator, which would allow you to set a threshold for the light, and when this threshold is met, it turns on. This is how many of the tally systems are, unfortunately not the one on the Cinelive.

The original design was for the tally to trigger from 2-24v, which would make it easy to work with a variety of setups. The tally sensor for the Cinelive did not have an on or off point, so it would trigger the tally with very little light. We had to modify some of the tally board values to get the tally light to switch on at a reasonable light level with the Cinelive, and to be more responsive. If you had the non modified tally board, then it is easier to tweak things.

Wow Jerry, posting the same exact thing on multiple topics? I think this may be in violation of forum rules...

Jerry, lets get the facts straight... Mike Skipp has been machining for over 30 years for the film business. He has had contracts with Panavision, Clairmont, Otto etc. I would hardly say that he knocks off peoples products, when he was commissioned to design them.

As for the Libra, Mike is the sole manufacture of Libra parts worldwide, so I do not think you could accuse someone of knocking off something they designed. (You are welcome to come review the Libra supply agreement if you like)

Cinematic Precision and Jerry Hill, are selling Arri accessory blocks, which were first produced by Skipps Engineering, so it looks like you are the one knocking off products now.

As for knocking off products, the adapter bushings that you sell are a copy of the bushings made by Mike Skipp. In fact we have the invoice with your name on it, showing that you purchased bushings from Mike, then shortly thereafter made your own.

Many customers asked Mike to make a better Preston motor mount, since yours frequently strip out.

Remember this country is built on free enterprise and competition, if you cant stand the heat, get out of the fire.

You would have to change a surface mount resistor on the tally board then. Everything was setup to use the tally on the front.

Use the tally lights on the front of the camera, they are much brighter than the tally on the rear.