DSLR video shooters wanted here

13677857:rcarry said:
Sorry not sure what happened there but this one should workhttps://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9AfvZcdipNSYpql
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Went and did the survey. And no way in hell would I pay 50 bucks for that. This will literally make it into WalMart if that, cool idea but with new dslrs motion tracking most of them do not need focus assist. Let alone if you're filming non amateur work you should never be using auto focus while recording. This will only be suitable for absolute beginners that don't understand infinity focus, trap focus, or follow focus. All of which that product wouldn't help with. Let alone how will you be implementating the signal into camera, firmware on an sd card? Have you done testing it wont brick part of The cameras, would it conflict with magic lantern running at the same time? Seems like a gimmicky toy to me. Although put your tracking idea into a motorized gimbal and you have a million dollar follow cam design.
 
13678160:Hoodliving said:
Went and did the survey. And no way in hell would I pay 50 bucks for that. This will literally make it into WalMart if that, cool idea but with new dslrs motion tracking most of them do not need focus assist. Let alone if you're filming non amateur work you should never be using auto focus while recording. This will only be suitable for absolute beginners that don't understand infinity focus, trap focus, or follow focus. All of which that product wouldn't help with. Let alone how will you be implementating the signal into camera, firmware on an sd card? Have you done testing it wont brick part of The cameras, would it conflict with magic lantern running at the same time? Seems like a gimmicky toy to me. Although put your tracking idea into a motorized gimbal and you have a million dollar follow cam design.
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this. It doesn't make all that much sense to me. If you needed an autofocus, its already in the lens/camera. If your camera/lens doesn't have autofocus, then you're probably much more experienced and would be manual anyway. For me, this product just doesn't make sense, even if it was for $20
 
13678205:GrantLewisIsDNTM said:
this. It doesn't make all that much sense to me. If you needed an autofocus, its already in the lens/camera. If your camera/lens doesn't have autofocus, then you're probably much more experienced and would be manual anyway. For me, this product just doesn't make sense, even if it was for $20
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not to mention if you're shooting over f4 most likely everything will be in focus from 3ft to infinity so its still pointless even for bloggers in their homes its nothing that a cameras built in tracking won't handle. Some things people invent if they put that time into learning aspects of film i don't think they would of invented this
 
13678205:GrantLewisIsDNTM said:
this. It doesn't make all that much sense to me. If you needed an autofocus, its already in the lens/camera. If your camera/lens doesn't have autofocus, then you're probably much more experienced and would be manual anyway. For me, this product just doesn't make sense, even if it was for $20
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not to mention if you're shooting over f4 most likely everything will be in focus from 3ft to infinity so its still pointless even for bloggers in their homes its nothing that a cameras built in tracking won't handle. Some things people invent if they put that time into learning aspects of film i don't think they would of invented this
 
13678160:Hoodliving said:
Went and did the survey. And no way in hell would I pay 50 bucks for that. This will literally make it into WalMart if that, cool idea but with new dslrs motion tracking most of them do not need focus assist. Let alone if you're filming non amateur work you should never be using auto focus while recording. This will only be suitable for absolute beginners that don't understand infinity focus, trap focus, or follow focus. All of which that product wouldn't help with. Let alone how will you be implementating the signal into camera, firmware on an sd card? Have you done testing it wont brick part of The cameras, would it conflict with magic lantern running at the same time? Seems like a gimmicky toy to me. Although put your tracking idea into a motorized gimbal and you have a million dollar follow cam design.
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The original idea behind the concept was that independent filmers using either glidecams or gimbals would be able to utilize an f stop closer to 1.8 without assistance from a secondary user with a remote follow focus. We had initially planned for our product to be a manual follow focus with a built in motor that could also track remotely through Bluetooth which would remove problems with firmware integration. Unfortunately most of our class doesn't understand what goes into dslr film making so we had to slightly dumb our concept down to the more Walmart-ish product you see now.
 
13678267:rcarry said:
The original idea behind the concept was that independent filmers using either glidecams or gimbals would be able to utilize an f stop closer to 1.8 without assistance from a secondary user with a remote follow focus. We had initially planned for our product to be a manual follow focus with a built in motor that could also track remotely through Bluetooth which would remove problems with firmware integration. Unfortunately most of our class doesn't understand what goes into dslr film making so we had to slightly dumb our concept down to the more Walmart-ish product you see now.
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that makes a little more sense.. But if you're making an advanced product for the advanced user, don't dumb it down for the typical consumer, because then it becomes a selfie stick
 
13678267:rcarry said:
The original idea behind the concept was that independent filmers using either glidecams or gimbals would be able to utilize an f stop closer to 1.8 without assistance from a secondary user with a remote follow focus. We had initially planned for our product to be a manual follow focus with a built in motor that could also track remotely through Bluetooth which would remove problems with firmware integration. Unfortunately most of our class doesn't understand what goes into dslr film making so we had to slightly dumb our concept down to the more Walmart-ish product you see now.
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Magic lantern has that covered as a free download on your SD card its about as good as it will get next to having a dedicated focus puller. If you have your focus distances taped out you'd be using a secondary puller on a dolly setup, glidecams would not be able to use a second person as it would move the framing on the camera, hence the in body follow ML offers, you choose your start and end points and can set a delay before it goes through the focus steps its smooth doesn't fail and doesn't cost anything.

13678306:GrantLewisIsDNTM said:
that makes a little more sense.. But if you're making an advanced product for the advanced user, don't dumb it down for the typical consumer, because then it becomes a selfie stick
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I completely agree
 
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