Make the investment in the
hard shell case to keep your
unit safe. If you can’t afford
to get it right away, the foam
shipping insert gives everything
a snug fit.

Check the tightness on the thumbscrews for the top and side flags. We had one end up in the middle of Lake Shore Drive during a car shot recently. It survived.

Be careful when loading the glass filters into the trays. Although there is a stop screw, if it isn't in place, you could drop the filter right though the housing.

down to the last fastener. Quick release thumb screws also help make set up and adjustment simple and painless.

Changing lenses, which we need to do often with a prime lens set up, is made much easier by the swing-away design of the microMattebox. This saves time and made swapping out lenses very easy—it’s also an option you generally only find in top-dollar units. Simply pull up on the swing arm release, and the whole box moves out of the way, giving

you plenty of room to access the lens. Swap your lens, fit the correct size rubber light-blocking donut to fit the lens

(51mm, 64mm, 76mm, 102mm) to block any light coming from behind the camera, and you’re good to go.

Our shoot included a street scene, so we fitted an NDO. 6 neutral density filter into one slot of the two–stage filter housing, which is easy to access from the top of the unit. Small thumbscrews keep the filters in place and swapping or rotating them is a snap.

Put through its paces, the Redrock microMatteBox has quickly become one of the most valuable additions to our new RED ONE. ■

Mark Archer is Creative Director of Del Padre
Digital, a full-service video and multimedia
production company located in western Mas-
sachusetts. Del Padre offers award-win-
ning video production, Flash design
and 3D services to a host of clients
including NASA, LEGO Systems
and Hamilton Sundstrand.