Tagged with varavon - Personal View Talks

Repeatable Focus Moves with Focus By Wire lenses

bheath — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:22:35 +0000

Here is my little contribution to PV. These focus by wire lenses are maddening. So, I've been trying to finda way to manage repeatable focus moves. Here's where I'm at: Physically superimposed marks on the LCD or monitor. (Stick on) I first tried camera tape strips with pen marks. Not bad but ugly. Also grease pencil and so forth. What I came up with (and could be improved is this: (see photo) screen protectors for cameras and Iphones havee a little scale for cutting with precision, I just cut off the scale and stuck it over where the distance slider appears when you manually focus an auto lens. It's transluscent with marks and numbers. Then I used the focus chart and tape measure and memorized distance for each auto lens. (sort of) It could work for your focus puller, or piss her off. But i like it for hitting a couple of marks without spazzing out on the focus ring. It's something. With the 12-35 pana, it could be promising eh? Photo taken with camera phone looking into the varavon loupe diopter, mounted on gh2... Good Loupe! Thanks Vitaly Let's get 'er in focus dammit!

Varavon "cranes" and new S sliders thoughts

jodydb — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:44:47 +0000

I have the lite, which works fine, but am interested in the crane and the longer version. They also have little wheels that attack to the bottom of the crane that made me giggle... want them too...

does anyone have any tips on how to get steady speed on sliders with out crank other then handpush.pull? I've been using rubber bands with my lite slider and gh2, rokinon 35mm and loupe gets good results most of the time

maybe a future deal on here? eh

Varavon Loupe Ex-Supporter

khoumphonh — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:00:00 +0000

I was wondering if anyone has yet to test this out?

I'm really curious about mounting this on a shoulder rig without an offset adapter for the shoulder mount and just the screen flipped out instead.