 Welcome to the Crimson Engine, my name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at matte boxes again. Shape, whose matte box I have, upgraded their matte box to a bigger and better and more sturdy model. I got hold of it and I thought I would compare this one with this one and see what they've added, what they've taken away. This is Shape's standard matte box, 15mm rails. I did a review a couple of weeks ago and Shape took this, which is an entry level cinema camera or DSLR style matte box and pretty much beefed it up and improved it in every way. So talk about how they're similar and then I'll talk about how they're different. They both have two filter trays, one that rotates for a polarizing filter at the back and one that goes straight in. But you can see this is the new one and this is the old one, much larger piece of metal. You can see the locking mechanisms on the back. This one's spring loaded, this one's screws down. They both have eyebrows and French flag attachments on the top and the sides. The new one also has an underbrow, I'm calling it, attachment so that you can, if you're under rigging the camera or you're getting light from below, you can also block flare with something at the bottom. The base model has a solid aluminium top flag, whereas the new one has this hinged folding system so that you can break it down for transportation and it's not as large a liability if you're moving the camera around. The main difference actually is that the old one slides on the 15mm rails, that's how you remove it. If you want to change the lens, you have to undo the lock, slide it off the rails, slide it back on after you've replaced the lens. The new one has this pin on the side, you lift it up and it swings away. You can now get access to the lens, change it over when you're ready, pull it back up and it locks back in again. It really means that you can change the lens as a single operator rather than needing three hands to do it with this one. You need to have the lens and the matte box. The new one also has this little handle at the top. It also has three quarter twenty mounting points for a light or a cinny tape. It also has these dials which you can adjust the height of it. This is in the shape shoulder rig so you can adjust the height of the rails in the shoulder rig as well as you adjust it to different height lenses. The screws on the bottom are about, I only know a centimetre so I'm going to say about three mill across whereas these ones are about six or seven mill. Much easier to operate with gloves, much easier to operate in the cold. Probably the biggest difference to the price of these is that the matte box itself of this one is made with carbon fibre. So even though it's bigger, it's lighter whereas this one is some kind of composite plastic. The new matte box also has a much larger capacity for the front diameter of your lens. The metal itself is larger. You can take this frame out if your lens is even bigger than this and put in a different plate. The new one also has the advantage of coming with 19mm rail mounts so you can switch it from a 15mm to a 19mm rail. I've never shot on anything with 19mm rails. I think the Panavision cameras have them, some of them on the side. But it's also just a beefier kind of thing. If you're working with longer zoom lenses that are much heavier, they need a bigger rail support and hence you can still use this matte box for those. So really cool to be working with this. There is still some jobs where this is perfect because you don't need that much matte box. But if you're going out to shoot something big, you need to bring all the bells and whistles. This guy's got you covered. Check it out in the links below. More information on Shapes website and obviously wherever you're buying it from, Amazon or VSH. You'll probably see one or both of these in future videos. Leave your questions in the comments. Thanks very much for watching guys. See you next time.