3D sync for AF100

[bruceallen]

So...

1. How do you get two AF100s to record frames at the exact same time?
a) genlock?
b) the old hacked startup / record remote method?

2. How do you get two AF100s' lenses to match in focus / zoom?
a) I notice a camera remote input for focus / iris. Could we hook up one remote to 2 cameras? Potentially this remote would have to be quite smart and compensate for variations between the two cameras' lenses / backfocus.
b) Birger with Canon EOS lens?
c) RedRock?

Of course you could do C-Motion etc but it makes little sense IMHO to use lens control that costs more than the camera.

That USB connection can't help us out in any way, could it? It'd be so awesome if you could just hook it up, designate a "master camera" and have the other one follow it...

Anyway, 48fps 1080p 3D for under $9000 for 2 cameras sounds awfully nice.

I was assuming that I'd have to go with a pair of Scarlet 2/3rds fixed cams at minimum for this - their whole modular, fly-by-wire remotes thing, metadata recording, etc seems made for stereo (if they enable everything, unlike the whole /i thing which took ages to implement) - but I owe it to myself to check out the AF100 as well methinks!

Also, how wide is the AF100? To me some of the detachable-ness of the handgrips seems designed with mounting side-by-side in mind.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[bruceallen]

Ouch. Nobody?

So I'm the only guy crazy enough to want to shoot 3D with an AF100? It seems the perfect mirror rig camera - 1/2 the weight of Scarlet, good low-light sensitivity, 1080p at 48fps or 60fps etc.

The lack of 3D sync mystifies me considering how much Panasonic is pushing 3D.

Jan, if you have some kind of secret code we key in to sync up / genlock two of these cameras, can you PM me please? I promise to buy some 3D Panasonic TVs :)

Otherwise, AF100a feature request? Although I might have bought two Scarlet 2/3rds by then.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Birger]

2. How do you get two AF100s' lenses to match in focus / zoom?
b) Birger with Canon EOS lens?


Since you asked... Probably going to be more than one way to do this... Birger solution will support stereo.

We ran out of memory on the RED product, so we do a simple master/slave with the 3D rigs. We will have axis matching with arbitrary curves on the new platform. This can be used for all kinds of setups, i.e. adjust zoom with focus, or control two unmatched lenses on different cameras.

The AF100 will offer some really interesting possibilities for control and calibration of 3D rigs, and setting up the curves.