NEW wireless follow focus under testing..

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DallasZhen

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looks like redrock micro wireless but with built in LCD.

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price unset, don't know delivery date yet.
 
Who do you think is probably making the redrock system?

Someone in a Chinese Speaking country. These guys got smart and decided - hey who needs Redrock and who needs to add an iphone to make it usable - let's do the whole thing ourselves.

I want to try one!
 
It'll be interesting to see if whoever is making this is actually coming out with a worthy contender to the Bartech or the Hocus Focus, perhaps with a few fancy-looking features related to that LCD. However, it matters a whole lot more how smooth it is, how responsive the motor is, what kind of torque it all produces, and so on.

Personally, I'd just love it if one of these companies would make a motor that's compatible with a standard analog Bartech, or even a standard digital motor control (like on the Preston). Even a used Heden analog motor costs about $1000, so there's certainly a market there for a lower-cost option. If you could buy a cheaper system, and eventually move up in terms of controllers when your needs grew, that could be a great system. I doubt it'd happen, but hey, I can dream!
 
Who do you think is probably making the redrock system? Someone in a Chinese Speaking country.
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Nope - we make it ourselves here in Texas, USA. This is obviously an attempt to knock off the microRemote. It doesn't take much to look at our online pictures and product videos and fake something up, but the actual Redrock microRemote is miles ahead of this in every respect. It's too bad there's an industry like this that only attempts to steal original designs instead of making their own.

@tomthemacman - the microRemote is compatible with analog motors from Bartech (more specifically they use mOne motors from Palomar) and digital motors from Heden, as well as the Redrock Torque motors. Lots of options for the microRemote


Brian
 
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It's too bad no one at Redrock or Mysterious Chinese Follow Focus Factory decided "Maybe we should put a handgrip on the left so your left hand isn't in a 100% ergonomically retarded position while working." Here's to hoping that someone decides to think about ergonomics before they actually ship anything.

And, since Mr. Valente has entered the thread I would like to pose the following question:

Mr. Valente, are you claiming that -All- of your products are:
A. Manufactured in the USA
B. Assembled in the USA
or
C. Designed in the USA?

Just curious, since as an American, I like to buy American when the quality of the product warrants my purchase. Of course I still buy designed in America built overseas products like Apple, and Red - but manufacturing and economies of scale are of an increasing interest to me.
 
well if you think that an usb wheel mecanism can be stripped out of a $1 chinese mouse and you can do the same from a chinese smartphone, the total cost to
build such device should be very low (most of the feature being into the software). Meanwhile, it is still useless if you do not have the motor, that is the most expensive part, since there is no (for instance)
cheap motor. But these chinese guy could just make one from an arduino processor ($15) and a cheap RC servo (another $15).
for sure it would be just sh*t, but at least very cheap.
after all you can buy today a full RC helicopter that incorporate many hitech parts for less than $400.
for sure if you take design from scratch and choose the part as per your need , your cost are high.
On the contrary if you build on what is avaible (mouse controller chip, nintendo DS or smartphone LCD screen) you can
get nice prices with this mass producted parts.
 
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@Dan_Kanes

We do have a handgrip (sort of a 'nub') for the left hand which makes it very comfortable to use - I've only heard positive responses from people who have tried it out. It's also flippable so you can use it left or right handed - you flop it over and the iPhone/iPod rotates the screen and the grip can be used with the right hand. If you want more than that, we also have a 1/4" 20 tap on the back you can attach an additional handgrip and position it wherever you wish. It's possibly overkill for that, but if you want a centered handgrip that would do the trick.


Regarding buying American, thanks for pointing out that we make our gear here in Texas, USA. Yes to all three: we are A. manufactured in the USA, B. assembled in the USA, and C. Designed in the USA. Technically, there are some minor parts we source elsewhere (such as screws, washers, etc.) that are non-unique elements and don't make sense for us to reinvent.


Hope that helps


Brian
 
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@Dan_Kanes

Regarding buying American, thanks for pointing out that we make our gear here in Texas, USA. Yes to all three: we are A. manufactured in the USA, B. assembled in the USA, and C. Designed in the USA. Technically, there are some minor parts we source elsewhere (such as screws, washers, etc.) that are non-unique elements and don't make sense for us to reinvent.


Hope that helps


Brian
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That's fantastic to hear Brian. I think the Made in the USA stamp holds so much more value today than it ever has. I don't think enough people know this about you guys.
 
We haven't released final pricing but we did discuss preliminary through the couple of online videos. the microRemote is a system with a good number of choices for how to configure. You can do something as simple as a motor, basestation, and fingerwheel (for eng-style focus pulling), or the full monty with microRemote, iPod/iPhone software, microTape, etc. the whole works. We'll have several different pre-configured bundles available, and of course you can purchase items a la carte

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