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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

I Got My Birger Mount!!!

AKABAKA said:
but it's hard to justify the $500 cost when that mount is always just "a week or so" away.
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That seems to be the RED way.

Jay A. Kelley said:
I loved this thread.. The line: "Your dead to me" had me rolling.

Jay
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It was annoying at first, now it's kind of fun - kind of like the old days when you had 8 future fathers in the maternity ward waiting room smoking cigarettes and killing time til there baby (or the birger mount) is born. I think I am going to need a box of cigars for Saturday (c'mon Erik, you promised! ... and did you remember trigger in the software?)
 
birgerEngineer said:
I did a double take... had I left to make the donuts... and bumped into myself returning from making the donuts?

Sitting with the software engineer, doing final test on a couple of units right now... next week is now tomorrow... this thing is soooo cooool!
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Hey Erik, don't start becoming like Jim and tease us. :bleh:

Because that would be so uncool... like pretending to get a mount when you really didn't just to tease everyone knowing they're on the edge of their seats waiting for it to ship any day now so they're going to hit a "I got it!" thread like there's no tomorrow... :whistling:

:)

Really glad to hear that you're loving it. Considering what I tried out at NAB, it must be a beautiful piece of engineering. Send it! Send It!

Now I'm envious of the guys who'll be posting real "I got it" threads next week.

By the way, was I right that I read elsewhere that you'll be able to ramp up production to a level that everyone will get their mounts relatively soon (if they elected to ship asap)? 2-3 weeks for everyone?
 
Nikon mount concerns..

Nikon mount concerns..

If it's taken this long for Erik to finalize the Canon mount, I don't even wanna think how long it'll take the Nikon mount to come to fruition. Oh man...
 
Adam Levins said:
BTW. Is the wireless FF remote in the current pipeline, or is that more like next year?
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I might be taking that on (in small qtys).

I have a control box that I built for the original ef-232 that worked well, and I have since purchased a bluetooth module to communicate with the new mount. It has three programs: Manual, Snap, and Dolly. Manual is just like it sounds, Snap sets three points to three buttons and snaps to that point when the button is depressed, and Dolly sets a starting point, an ending point, and a rate. Dolly isn't quite right as it currently does not compensate for the exponential focusing function of a lens. It'll be the bomb if I can pull that off...

The current setup is about the size of a hardcover book. It has 2 buttons for the iris, 3 buttons for the focusing programs, a knob (of course), and a 4x20 backlit LCD panel. Some of the software will need to be rewritten because the API of the new mount will be a bit different (more feature-rich from what Eric describes).

The image below shows the control box as an early prototype. The secondary focus knob is now gone and the SONAR sensor has been removed as well.

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I am curious as to what interest in this product be. I'd actually like to get it right and sell the design to someone else (I want to make movies, not hardware).

Bob
 
I'm bumping this post to remind everyone that we may have alternatives to the Birger remote and focus knob. I wonder how quickly Bob can get this up and running.
 
Seriously. With such pent-up demand, why hasn't someone else produced a Canon mount by now? Is it really that complicated?

-shooter
 
Well, sorry to say like this but maybe we need something more than one guy who mounting their product in a garage in their free time?

v*
 
P+S are not exactly operating out of a garage. They have won a series of awards, including a technical Oscar.

Neither is Birger for that matter. They have NASA as their customer.

Andy is maybe the closest you get to a garage shop, but he has had the most open ears to his customers.
 
I was not speaking about IMS.. Andy is certainly talented and respectful about his customer but he maybe reach a point that it's difficult to respond the demand in his situation?

I just wish we could find a solution as soon as possible and then if we all put a little more pression on this, maybe it could happen in less than 6 month times maybe?
 
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