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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 :)

RACK FOCUS

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... hehehe, jarred, love your canon epic in L style grey.

this is really dope. to have an epic - or several- for each mount in a different color. :) What will the nikon mount epic be? Yellow :D

Patrick
 
Tim Morten said:
Thanks for telling it like it is - do you think we'll be looking at end of year for Nikon, or even later? Will there be a dumb mount in the interim?
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Likely in August.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Would be fun to throw up an [A] & point on the touchscreen and then be able to slide your finger between the two and rack back and forth based on where your finger was between the two.

Not where the A/B points were in frame. Just as a big slider.
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the rocker is a good button to use for that as it is pressure sensitive.. so you can vary your speed going back and forth and ease out and in to each point.
 
cool thing.... so I don't need to add a duration option to the wishlist :)
 
ummmm, jarred would you mind sharing the settings of the scarlet in that shot with us? the DOF looks really great. what stop was that?
 
Jarred Land said:
the rocker is a good button to use for that as it is pressure sensitive.. so you can vary your speed going back and forth and ease out and in to each point.
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That's really funky. I can remember lost of situations where that would have made life way easier and would have permitted smaller f-stops.

I still deeply hope for a traditional wheel for Steadicam though, and just for ace focus pullers who have been doing this the same way superbly for 15 years - wireless with a marking ring. Maybe I am requesting what is obvious and has already been done. Any word on that?
 
Patrick Grossien said:
ummmm, jarred would you mind sharing the settings of the scarlet in that shot with us? the DOF looks really great. what stop was that?
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I saw the Scarlet in person at NAB - that built-on lens really seems to be a remarkable piece of glass. You'd expect to pay 12K just for superb 2/3rds glass like that, let alone for any kind of camera.
 
Rob Ruffo said:
I still deeply hope for a traditional wheel for Steadicam though, and just for ace focus pullers who have been doing this the same way superbly for 15 years - wireless with a marking ring. been done. ?
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Isn't that exactly what the Redmote Pro will provide?
 
Hello. This is super exciting. This will improve our shooting experience in many ways. Still lenses are hard to rack focus with. Does the Nikon Mount will have the same functionality as the canon mount, or it will have some limitations, since both focusing systems are different from each other? Thank you.
 
Jarred Land said:
the rocker is a good button to use for that as it is pressure sensitive.. so you can vary your speed going back and forth and ease out and in to each point.
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Cool. Does the Ease-In/Ease-Out operate on top of the rocker? In other words will it take the edge off of the start and stop if you just crank on the rocker or will it do a hard start/stop?
 
Could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure Jarred was referring to manually easing off and on finger pressure on the rocker switch to create the soft start/stops. Not a programmed thing.
 
Yep, sounds like a manual thing. Looks like ease in/out could potentially come as a programmed function at a later date when they have time to add more bells and whistles... At least based on Jarred's response to my question a ways back.

Either way, this all looks great! Can't wait. Canon mount will be nice, but I have a lot more Nikon glass. I'm thinking the 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200 zooms will make a killer 3-lens combo that fits with Epic in a backpack. Woohoo!
 
I started the follwing thread on DVXUSER back in 2006:

"Wouldn't it be nice if you could focus on one subject, store that number, then change focus to the next subject further away, store that number, then toggle between the two? Can this be done? If not, why not?"
 
nope.. no motors in them.
 
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