I’ll probably be shooting with an XHA1 as the primary camera with an HV20 as the second unit. I finally received my TwoNeil 35mm adapter and can’t wait to play with it. The thing should give some excellent results but I have two initial problems with it. First, getting information or answers from the maker is a lot like pulling teeth. He’ll answer but doesn’t answer fully enough to really clear up your questions. I usually wind up asking 5-6 follow-up questions before I get things figured out.

Second, it doesn’t come with everything you need. For an HV20 if you want to use an Achromat, you need to order a 55mm Opteka, a 55mm to 57mm step up ring to attach it to the adapter, a 43mm to 55mm step up ring to attack it to your HV20 and an extra Nikon Ring3 tube to get the distance to the focusing screen correct. And, as I said above, the maker doesn’t tell you this in any easy fashion…you have to ask a long series of questions to get to the answer.

Once all the extra bits arrive, I’ll post some footage from it.

Mat N.

That’s great news!
Please post all the gory details here.. esp. about the shoot rig and post prod.

So do you have a timeframe yet?

-Shaun