Alexander, Aa much as I appreciate the red crowd I think its best to do first come first serve. We are not hand making these units like a number of other companies do...they are going to be in high volume production and as such the lead times shouldn't be too terrible.
I could do that but it will most likely introduce backlash. The elegant part about what we have right now is that there is zero (as in none) backlash in the system. The encoder wheel is directly attach to the knob and the motor has an encoder that directly translates your input without any slop. That said, we are looking into some options... most likely we will be trying to run one impero as a master and another as a slave.
The impero micro only controls the axis that its plugged into... if you are referring to the Impero standard then yes, the position will jump when you go back to the focus. It will be controlled and have a smooth movement though, nothing scary. If you can think of a better behavior then I'm listening.
Yup, thats why we're taking a bit longer on releasing Mirus... got to make sure everything plays nice with one another. The idea would be that you can do your pan/tilt moco shot then play it back and do the FIZ portion... after that the the FIZ tracks are laid on top of the pan/tilt tracks for the final moco shot.
The cables can run to about 12 feet... maybe more but I know for sure it can at least do that. The motors can take commands from the impero micro at the same time as the impero standard... there is a lockout so you can make sure no one bumps it while you are wireless. You would still have the issue of the mirco being in a position other than the motors actual position... see the question the mitch had above.
Yeah, the motorizing option gets to be very messy... all the sudden a $350 product will cascade into a much higher price range. How about this as an option... on the current design the impero micro only controls one motor - so this problem isn't really a problem at the moment. We could evaluate things and see if we can upgrade the functionality of the impero standard and make it so you have three input devices (microforce, knob, slider) and maybe raise the price a small amount. Then we could lower the price on the pro version because we would have integrated it into the standard. Regardless, I really think the micro is a single axis design... if we try using it for three axis then things get confusing.
The working load for the system is currently 35-40 pounds (we need to get some testing in place). The lower the cg of the camera the better... it might be a good idea to run power through the head and keep the camera in a minimal configuration (no battery on the camera). We have plenty of pass through connections to both power the camera and get the monitor feed as well so we could easily make adapter cables for both the top and bottom side.
Yes.. You basically need an Inclino and an Impero to have a fully functioning system. The micro is going to be the first that goes out the door followed by the standard and pro... they're going to be out towards the end of May and June respectively. The Impero micro will be wired but its going to be a modular design that clicks into the standard/pro to make it wireless.
We're working on that.
Yes, only better
The system is modular but the pro is not all inclusive of the other two... ie treat these like they are upgrades to one another rather than individual products. So you'd buy a micro, standard and pro to get the system with all the bells and whistles. If you add the estimated costs the top of the line system would run less than $2400.. as compared to a $24K system from C-motion thats not too bad.
Supergrip is TBD... the camera needs to mature before that shows up. The Impero pro render that I posted is very old... the new will be much cleaner and have multiple inputs (microforce zoom, slider, and knob). We may make something similar to the supergrip but not necessarily with all the camera interaction.
