Tilta Single-sided Cine Follow Focus - Black

The Tilta FF-T05 is a single-sided cine follow focus with a 1:1 ratio between hand wheel and gear — one turn of the hand is one turn at the lens, and the pull is accurate and repeatable. The unit snaps onto 15 mm LWS and 19 mm rods without removing the matte box, the gear swivels on a pivot and the whole unit slides sideways to lenses of any diameter. The case holds three 0.8 MOD gears, five gear rings, a speed crank, a focus whip and three marking disks.

The Tilta Single-sided Cine Follow Focus is the single-sided version of Tilta's film follow focus: the same 1:1 body as the dual-sided FF-T04, with a hand wheel on one side and the complete kit in a case.

1:1 ratio, snap-on rod mount and swivel

The hand wheel turns the gear at 1:1, so the focus puller has the whole range of the lens under direct control and the marks on the disk correspond one to one to the lens position. The unit snaps onto 15 mm LWS and 19 mm studio rods from below — with an adapter for each diameter in the kit — and comes off the same way, without having to slide the other accessories, the matte box or the lens support off the rods. The gear sits on a swivel and rotates against the lens so it meshes without play; the whole unit also slides from side to side to fit a lens of any diameter.

A complete kit in a case

The hard shell case holds, besides the body, the adapter for 15 mm LWS and for 19 mm studio rods, the hand wheel with its extension arm, the speed crank for long pulls, the 300 mm focus whip for pulling from a distance and three marking disks. The three 0.8 MOD gears have 64, 38 and 43 teeth, and five gear rings wrap photographic lenses that have no teeth of their own. The body is aluminium alloy and ABS plastic in a black finish.

Tilta follow focus

A follow focus is mechanical focusing for a camera on rods: the gear meshes with the lens gear ring and the focus puller turns the hand wheel with its marking disk. Tilta makes a range of parts for it that combine across units — the speed crank for long focus pulls, the focus whip for pulling from a distance, interchangeable 0.5/0.6/0.8 MOD gears, gear rings for photographic lenses and dry-erase marking disks. This part is one of them.