Lensrentals bought a $10K machine to test the flange-to-sensor distance of more than 2,500 cinema cameras

Roger Cicala and his team over at Lensrentals have made the most of their COVID-19 downtime by spending the past few months painstakingly measuring the flange-to-sensor distance of more than 2,500 cameras to see just how much variation there is from cinema camera to cinema camera (even identical models). In the first of a two-part series on the testing and results, Roger breaks down why flange-to-sensor distance is important, details 'how accurate is possible,' explains how the Lensrental team w...