Birger Mount

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eagle_eye said:
One big omission in your post .You forgot that the Redrock mount will not control auto-focus. Also you only get 20 hours of battery life on a nine volt. You'll need either multiple rechargables, or a lot of 9v's...A costly propostion that makes the price difference negligible.
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Your point about auto focus is a good one. However, way back when Birger announced the adapter, he said it would control auto focus and even IS on Canon EOS lenses. Then as time progressed and we saw a few demos here and there of the Birger mount, I never saw anything relating to auto focus nor IS. It was all demos of iris control and electronically controlled repeatable focus points via follow focus. Then (after all the controversy) Birger went radio silence on us. So in all honesty, I am wondering if the Birger mount (as it ships in first iteration) is going to control auto focus or IS on Canon lenses.

Truthfully, I am afraid what we are going to see in the Birger mount is iris control and electronic focus control (with either wireless or wired follow focus). But, that's just me. I hope I am wrong.

Regards,

G.
 
ProAmateur said:
Your point about auto focus is a good one. However, way back when Birger announced the adapter, he said it would control auto focus and even IS on Canon EOS lenses. Then as time progressed and we saw a few demos here and there of the Birger mount, I never saw anything relating to auto focus nor IS. It was all demos of iris control and electronically controlled repeatable focus points via follow focus. Then (after all the controversy) Birger went radio silence on us. So in all honesty, I am wondering if the Birger mount (as it ships in first iteration) is going to control auto focus or IS on Canon lenses.

Truthfully, I am afraid what we are going to see in the Birger mount is iris control and electronic focus control (with either wireless or wired follow focus). But, that's just me. I hope I am wrong.

Regards,

G.
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Thanks for your insight. I will be pretty bummed out if your fears are confirmed. I will call my dealer tomorrow and see if I can verify. In reality tv, which is my mainstay, the Af100 is as good as a boat anchor in some situations without auto-focus. Clearly, the Af100 team at Panasonic has aligned itself with Birger thus far. I would hope that is because full communication with Canon lenses is possible with the birger mount, as they have advertised. If not, I will feel majorly burned by Birger and Panasonic. Suffice to say, in my case, this would not be the first time with Panasonic.
 
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dcloud said:
"On 27 September, we will send out dealer package, open for dealer orders, and announce ship dates for AF100, F3, FS100 and Focus Wheel.""Ship dates for AF100, F3 and Focus Wheel will be spread through Oct/Nov. FS100 early Dec. More detailed info on Tuesday. Please share."1 more day!
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just received this from cvp

Hi Suresh,
I have just received an email from Birger Engineering to inform me that the mount for the Panasonic AG-AF100 / AG-AF101 is due to be released in November.
As soon as we have any more precise information I will be in contact with you again.
Kind Regards,
Emily
 
sofresh said:
just received this from cvp

Hi Suresh,
I have just received an email from Birger Engineering to inform me that the mount for the Panasonic AG-AF100 / AG-AF101 is due to be released in November.
As soon as we have any more precise information I will be in contact with you again.
Kind Regards,
Emily
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Wow, now November?
They are sure doing their darndest to test their product and its potential customers resilience, specially against Canon upcoming new product marketing machinery. And pretty pictures and beautiful adverb words easily distract fools like me.
Well, at least you got an email. That is a lot more than I got in the last five or six months from either Birger or my dealer.
 
Mitch, are you going to contact the people in Abel's waiting/interest so we can place in order for first shipment?
 
Tuesday comes and goes without the "dealer package" details announcement. Deceptive as a used car salesman at an iron lot. I bought this camera in March, with the intention of buying the mount soon after NAB upon it's expected release. I spent $200 as a stop gap measure on the Kipon, and then waited, and waited. Let me be clear. I definitely put some of the blame on Panasonic. There is no question that they boosted there marketing strategy with the benefits of the Birger mount to those of us vested in Canon glass. To those of you who feel this is whining, you have your right to your opinion. My opinion is that the "Canon base" has been toyed with to sell a product that they would have had much more trouble selling without this mount. If it is released tomorrow would I still buy it? The answer is yes, but if Jan 1, 2012 arrives and a fully functional Birger mount has not, I will give up on this product. My apologies to Mkfotos; it seems you were correct about one thing. This guys word means nothing.
 
I just went ahead and bought the Redrock adapter. I had enough of the Kipon. It's nice to use the RR with my $15,000 worth of canon glass and adjust iris and no vignetting.
 
I am with you in this one. We have lots of money invested in Canon glass and we purchased these cameras under the same impression that Birger was to deliver in what we though would be a much earlier deadline. But after many months of wait we have now grown weary and distrustful of this company’s announcements on announcements.
I have to disagree on the blame part. I only blame myself, and my department agrees with me that I am the one to blame. Every time they are force to use the Kipon my name seems to come up and not in flowering terms.
What is more, we end up spending more than just the $200 per Kipon adapter. Once we realized that the Kipon was not going to cut it, I had to purchase a boatload of other lenses, Nikons, Voigtlanders, Tokinas, Rokinons, on and on. Lenses that we already had cover with the Canon L glass.
 
dustylense said:
I just went ahead and bought the Redrock adapter. I had enough of the Kipon. It's nice to use the RR with my $15,000 worth of canon glass and adjust iris and no vignetting.
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That is what we are going to do also.
Just got an update about the Birger mount from my dealer and it looks like at least two months out. Don't know what was Erik BS last week about dealer packages, but my dealer had no info on pricing, shipping or much of anything else. They would not even entertain at this point a waiting list order.
Correlating this information with Erik's tweets and one could conclude that their priorities for this mount may have shifted to a different camera. When that mount is out, they may return to the AF100. By then we either will be happy with the Redrock adapter or will start looking into the Canon S35
 
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