ZIP MATTE BOX @ weight of a filter

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Matte box is an important camera accessory for cinematographers. A matte box serves two purposes.
  1. To cut down unwanted lens flares and
  2. To allow change filters (Filter holder) in front of the lens.
Sometimes cinematographers have to sacrifice use of ‘Matte box’ especially during hand held operations, fixing cameras to drone or rigging to vehicles due to its extra weight. 
During some critical filming stages when there is a need to use filter on the lens without hefty matte box, technicians use to fit in filters using Gaffar tape or Blue tag in front of the lens, which is unsafe and allows more flare.  
So there is always a need for Lighter version of Matte box.
Wooden camera, a famous manufacturer for different camera accessories has recently introduced the Zip Box which is designed to be a very durable yet lightweight and affordable matte box.
This Zip box is a lightweight rubber matte box that is designed to clamp onto lenses of varying outside diameters. 
They have versions for two different size filters 4×4 and 4×5.65 and have different clamp on versions for lenses of varying diameters including 80-85mm, 90-95mm, and 110-115mm.
  • Zip Box 4×4:
80-85mm lens diameter
90 – 95mm lens diameter 
  • Zip Box 4×4.65:
    80 – 85mm lens diameter
    90 – 95mm lens diameter
    110 – 115mm lens diameter 

  • Zip Box 4×5.65 holds one 4×5.65″ Panavision size filter (100x144mm) and clamps to the front of lenses within three exterior diameter ranges:
  • Zip Box 4×5.65 (80-85mm) is great for the wide angle DSLR lenses, ARRI Standard and Super Speeds and other small cinema lenses
  • Zip Box 4×5.65 (90 to 95mm) for ARRI Ultra Primes and Leica Summilux-C
  • Zip Box 4×5.65 (110-115mm) for Zeiss CP.2s, Angenieux Optimo Zooms, ARRI Master 
  • Primes, Focus Optics Ruby, Cooke Panchro/i 18mm, RED Pro Primes and many more.





The lens shade design allows for even the wide lenses and sensor sizes to be covered with vignetting. Stainless steel components and unibody rubber design are durable.
Zip Box Adapter Rings are also available to suit almost every small DSLR lens and can be adopted like the Sony E and MFT mount lenses
High light of the Zip Box is, it weighs about the same as the filter itself which makes it perfect for gimbal and drone use.
Zip Box is very much reasonably priced around Rs.7000/- and adapter rings at approx Rs.1800/-


CJ Rajkumar
Author/Cinematographer

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