Just wondering, if there are any Matte Boxes designed especially for the XL1. Or any adaptation that can be made, from a professional Matte Box. i want to be able to use my 4x4 filters on the camera

-- Angel Hepburn (chito16@hotmail.com), August 04, 1999

Answers

Yes, check with Birns & Sawyer of hollywood, They have a good one for around $500. It holds 2 3x3 filters. Chrosziel has one with a two stage filter system also. check them out Angel. www.birnsandsawyer.com

-- John L Cummings (johnarri@corningca.net), September 21, 1999.

matte box for XL1

Take a look at this site http://www.zgc.com/html/bellow_matte_box.html Regards Ricardo

-- ricardo ramirez (revdemmay@hptmail.com), January 05, 2001.

It depends what you want it for, they all pretty much do the same. However if you want your camera to look beefy like I did buy a Chroziel 4 x 4, filters are more expensive and so is the mattebox but I got great results and my clients are pretty impressed. If you buy the small one from birns and sawyer it might do the same but wont' look as professional.

GOOD LUCK

-- (PEPEMARCO@AOL.COM), August 09, 2001.

Also check out Century Optics' DV matte box. Very professional and a good build.

-Timo

-- Timo P. (timo@aol.com), November 28, 2002.

CAVision (Located in Canada) makes a great 4x4 matte box specifically for the XL1. It runs around $1000, but it's a heavy duty bellows style and if you want to impress clients, it's the most "film camera" looking matte box around. You can find them on the web at www.cavision.com

-- Greg Steiner (gsteiner@q-station.com), July 28, 2003.