Originally Posted by William Graydon (Post 1653977)

Do you by any chance have an update? Thanks!

Originally Posted by Ned Soltz (Post 1652112)

As I ponder whether I can - or should- buy the F3, the Red Pro BT zoom is also a consideration.

I cannot speak from shooting with the lens. What I think is worth considering is that it is a very heavy lens-- about 10 pounds-- and would require support. Optitek makes support ring for it for $345 and you will also need a heavy-duty bridge plate for your rails, which could run $500. The Duclos support is $325 and they sell a heavy duty bridge for $525. I do not know whether their $275 bridge plate would support the lens. So that $6K lens is now closer to $7K. That's still a considerable savings over a new lens.

You certainly can't beat the value in a PL-mount zoom lens.

Ned Soltz

Originally Posted by Peter Corbett (Post 1655766)

Yes the Nikon reverse gear works fine, but the extra gear is very very close to some of my largers lenses like the 80-200 and 80-400. I'm going to use it because I don't want to relearn focus direction if I get some PL's down the track. If I'm using a FP, it doesn't matter, but for my own stuff, I don't want to be switching directions. I'll probably look around for a more dedicated reverses follow focus.