wireless remote control focus for AF100???

[Nicholas Natteau]

Does a wireless remote control focus exist for the AF100?

I'm filming myself using Reflecmedia's setup and I need to be at least 5 feet away from my camera. So I would need some kind of remote control setup to be able to focus my AF100 properly from a distance.

Thanks in advance.

 

[heavyG]

What kind of lenses are you using? Have you looked at the 'Hocus Focus'?

G.

 

[mkfotos.com]

Jag35 has something similar, but cheaper... and unfortunately out of stock for the moment as they prepare their V2: http://jag35.com/store.php/products/followfocus.html

 

[Shooter]

Be easier to have an AC behind the camera. Cant imagine how you will pull focus on your self.

 

[groveChuck]

Well, since you don't have an AC, and as you said are by yourself, first you would need a big enough monitor to see/set focus on from at least 5 ft away.
And it seems you only need to set focus, not actually pull it.

You could go old school one man band news style- set up a light stand at your height, with a knob where your face will be, focus on it.
Then stand with your face where the knob is, record a few seconds, check it out on playback to a monitor.
If it looks sharp, go back to the position and record yourself.

Primitive, yet cost-effective.

 

[Paul Hudson]

Jag35 has something similar, but cheaper... and unfortunately out of stock for the moment as they prepare their V2: http://jag35.com/store.php/products/followfocus.html

I have been trying to get one of these for one of our jibs. They have been out of stock for weeks.

 

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi everyone and thanks for all your feedback. No unfortunately, I really am a one man band so to speak. For monitoring I have a Flanders Scientific 17" monitor that I'm using to help me focus. But yes, I'm looking for a wireless solution for remote control focusing.

My prime lenses are Canon 35mm, 24mm, 70-200mm, and Zeiss ZF 85mm, 50mm, and 35mm. I also have the micro four-thirds stock 14-140mm lens that came with my GH1, the pancake 20mm f/1.7 and the super low-light 25mm Voigtlander 0.95.

Thanks again.

 

[lrtv]

Do you HAVE to have wireless? With this http://www.bebob.de/produkte/index.php?product=7950&lang=en (Foxi-DVX-HD) there are extension cables if needed. This works with 14-140mm. I mean, if green screen you don't really need/want short dof.

 

[David W. Jones]

Why not go old school here? Set your mark then use a tape measure to set distance for your focus, or place an object on the mark set focus on the object then remove the object once your focus is set.

 

[DJRon]

i have seen it buy the hocus focus

 

[Inveresk]

There's one for sale in the marketplace.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?287687-Selling-Wireless-Follow-Focus-System-Hocus-Focus

 

[David W. Jones]

i have seen it buy the hocus focus

Have the frequencies been approved for use in the US?

Also the motors are too weak for use with real cine lenses if that is your intended use.

 

[nothing]

Set it and forget it.

If you aren't moving around, you can just set focus to where you will be and leave it there. If you are moving around, well you aren't going to be able to pull focus and perform at the same time if you truly are a one-man-band.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I see no need here for remote focus.

 

[jmarkham]

What about the new RedRock microRemote?

 

[David W. Jones]

What about the new RedRock microRemote?

I think it will be around $2400 when it ships.

 

[little bobby]

No way you can get a friend/family member to stand-in for you while you get a focus and then excuse them? That's what I've done when I had to record myself and didn't want anyone else in the room when I recorded.