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Equipment & Techniques => Motion & Video => Topic started by: fredjeang on July 03, 2010, 10:58:05 am

Title: In search of Zacuto holy grail
Post by: fredjeang on July 03, 2010, 10:58:05 am

Hi.

I just started to use a dslr for making "serious" video=   +  +  

It is just the most anti-usable device that I've seen in my entire life, so calling the joker: zacuto's accessories.

There are many interesting things exept one thing that I would like to get somewhere and I do not see it in their catalog.
It's a sort of ring for focussing manually with accuracy with the primes.

A pic of the beast is better than my bad English:

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See the "joystick"? well, I wonder if such an accessory is available to emulate that and adaptable to different diameters of the proper lens focus ring.

Thank you.

Title: In search of Zacuto holy grail
Post by: K.C. on July 03, 2010, 09:26:34 pm

Well if your going to jump in to the 5D video frustration, or I mean production, then you need to become a regular here:

http://www.cinema5d.com/ (http://www.cinema5d.com/)

Zacuto products will all be heavily discounted next year when Sony and Panasonic introduce their new large sensor prosumer cameras. They showed mockups/prototypes at NAB this year.

Title: In search of Zacuto holy grail
Post by: feppe on July 04, 2010, 01:27:15 pm

Looks like primitive follow-focus aid. Zacuto and numerous other companies sell those to retrofit still lenses with follow-focus.

Title: In search of Zacuto holy grail
Post by: bvalente on July 06, 2010, 05:25:17 pm

It looks like the Redrock Micro nano focus

(http://www.redrockmicro.com/assets/images/microZoomHandle_02.jpg)
(http://www.redrockmicro.com/assets/images/microZoomHandle_01.jpg)


Cheers

Brian

Title: In search of Zacuto holy grail
Post by: bvalente on July 06, 2010, 06:07:46 pm

Quote from: John-S

Brian,

Cool. That would work great for zooming, better than focusing in my opinion. Price and availability?

actually it works great for either. ETA is a week or two  -  the nano lever is estimated at $34.50 plus a lens gear (works with an existing RR lens gear if you already have one).



Cheers

Brian