Cinevate's Follow Focus - Patent Pending :-)

It's a toss up. The XH-A1 has nearly perfect edge to edge sharpness, and it's chromatic aberration properties get cleaned up when using our flip adapter. Because it's CCD based, there is no rolling shutter to worrry about. Alternatively, the EX1 workflow in the studio and for same/day edits is more efficient with no tape capture to worry about. It's a stop or so more light efficient but suffers from some imaging issues that are not present on the Canon unit. It does have higher resolution capabilities so combined with our Zeiss lenses, there is nothing sharper.

I just spent the morning with a fellow from a well known snowboarding production company who has decided to integrate several XH-A1/Brevis MP.1 to combinations to mix with their 16mm mainstay footage. Their equipment needs to fit in a fairly light backpack subjected to extreme cold and physical abuse so a laptop etc for storage is out of the question. For tape workflow in HD, the XH-A1 would be my number one choice too. When I look at the Canon HD footage on our 42" panel, it still holds up extremely well against the EX1.
 
Look at freshDV's FF reviews. Our target was to be better than the Chroziel rig (about $1900 CAD). Our FF movement has less play and about 70% less resistance than the Chroziel, as well as a much more usable gear ratio for film/SLR lenses.
 
Cool Dennis. What's the current lead time for shipping?

PS: No video as of yet. Keep getting a 404 error...
 
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Sweet all metal FF !! however, the focus ring design is pretty much the same as the sgpro design. Unfortunately using the metal/stainless screw to hold the ring to the focus wheel would scar the focus barrel on the lens (especially the Zeiss lenses that have metal focus ring). I remember others having this same issue on the sgpro ring.
 
The SGPro ring originates from the Cinevate design. Cinevate has had these focus rings for quite some time. I think their design was the first seamless design of its type. For Zeiss ZF lenses... I really like the "clip gear" design. Too bad P&S Technik charges 200 per lens or something ridiculous like that. Not worth the money!
 
Yes, there's a post around here somewhere where I'd mentioned I was a bit disappointing with the SG pro "borrowing" Dan Diaconu's design pretty much exactly. The difference is that ours are not plastic. You can use rubber tipped fasteners instead of the stainless we provide...although we've had zero complaints on the rings marking anything.
 
Dragging up an old thread - just ordered the Durus FF. So I guess its wait til arrives time.

Just quickly, people who already have it. Hows it working out?
 
The highly anticipated 19mm version of our follow focus will be up in the Cinevate Catalog tomorrow. For those already using the 15mm version, the interchangeabe 19mm mount will also be up so you can use both 15mm and 19mm rails system.

Cheers,
Dennis.
 
aaaahhhhhh finally. I have been waiting for mine since october/november! WOOHOO!!!!!!! :thumbsup:
 
Dennis,

The video from your first post doesn't play smoothly. I enjoy using and watching Quicktime movies, so I'm glad you chose it. But, Mr. Follow Focus in the video isn't exactly dancing around, so the 2300 bitrate may be overkill. I suggest 1400 or less for this content to be watchable.

Best,
Andrew

Dennis Wood said:
We're trying out flash H264 encodes so let us know if you see any issues.

Cheers,
Dennis.
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Thanks Andrew. We've been playing around with encoding with a growing collection of tips and feedback from folks like yourself.

We've been using H264 almost exclusively and at least on the PCs, VLC (videolan.org) does a better job of playing the clips than the latest quicktime..which is the default player for most people's browser. The other thing we've seen is that contrast is better on VLC over quicktime too. Another stinker is the H264 spec from Adobe, namely f4v format. It seems that older hardware struggles with these.

One of these days we'll get it perfect...as long as folks keep sending us those nice emails and comments like this with feedback on their experience with various platforms, browsers and OS's. The latest wierd one is a report that our iPod encodes work on iPhones, but not iPods....sigh.
 
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