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Dan Chung is an award-winning photographer who works for the Guardian Newspaper. To quote Roger Tooth, the Guardian's head of photography, "Dan Chung is one of the world's best photographers working in the print media today. His images are consistently brilliant, and for a picture editor reliability in a photographer is a joyous thing. With Dan it doesn't matter if he's photographing the aftermath of the Tsunami or the exterior of a Sainsbury's. He always appears to put his heart in every frame. Dan is also a keen blogger and forum contributor. His opinions are widely read and respected. |
| Recently Dan wrote to us about his experiences with his Genus Matte Box. Here is what Dan had to say: | |
“I've been using the new Genus wide angle matte box  on my latest trip after picking one up from the company in Hong Kong. Its low profile, lightweight and wide angle coverage made it the only matte box I've found suitable for run and gun shooting with the 5dmkII, the added bonus is that it also works with my EX-1, EX-3 and broadcast lenses on my DSR-500. On the 5dmkII I can use it as a clip on or on rails, it fits well using the company’s GMB advanced adaptor bars which give you limited horizontal and vertical placement of the 15mm support rods. It has two aluminium filter stages which rotate and lock into place firmly and the whole thing looks as well built as possible for a lightweight product. All in all it's perfect for my needs. |
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Next I plan to devise a shoulder rig based around this and my existing Redrock Micro shoulder support system, although Genus say they are working on a solution too.
I've looked long and hard at matte boxes before plumping for this one, my previous collection include the Cinevate, Formatt and Cinetactics offerings but none really worked well with the 5dmkII. I like the look of the Redrock Micro matte box
but ruled it out for run and gun due to its size and weight. I really like the Genus because I can finally use a matte box with my Nikon 17-35mm lens without cutoff for video (it cuts off with stills but not the 16x9 video crop) The only caveat is that you need to take and screw in skylight or UV filter off but then I'd do that anyway with a matte box . I bought the optional top flag which I think is essential, there is currently no option for side flags but for my shooting this is less of a concern”. |
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