High Quality Cinema Gear
Light Focus Support
Follow Focuses
Precise, Snap-On, Compact
Lightweight MatteBox
Two-Stage, Lightest Mattebox Available
Camera Support
Industry Standard Support
Quality Cinema Equipment
Lightweight
Ideal for handheld, gimbal or standard studio setups, our equipment is among the most lightweight in the industry.
Modular
Petroff MatteBoxes are height adjustable and can be mounted to 15mm or 19mm rails with swappable accessories. Our Follow-Focuses are quick release to your rails and fully adjustable.
Build Quality
Unlike similar priced hardware from Asia, Petroff equipment is built in Bulgaria using high quality materials.
About
Celebrating 35 years of producing quality, cinema tools
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1979
Leading the Industry
R.D.Petroff Inc. began in Toronto, Canada as the only company in the Americas designing professional camera accessories. From 1979 to 1992 Petroff products went through several modifications reflecting and adapting to the technological developments of the field, supplying the big names in the film industry – Dedo Weigert Film, Sony Canada, Miller Tripods, Cartoni US and Zacuto.
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1993-2002
Shifting Market
Cavision began to create cheap copies of our equipment, leading Petroff to invent and patent the first modular, no-tool assembly system MatteBox at the time. An advanced version of the Petroff Follow-Focus was marketed and sold as the “Zacuto Follow-Focus”.
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2011 – Present
Global Company
To compete with the pricing of low-quality, Chinese knock-offs, Petroff moves manufacturing to Bulgaria which allows the reduction of costs while delivering uncompromised quality.