DIY Follow Focus

[Leo Mandy]

Gev,

Are you going to sell your item? Any chance of a look-see inside?

[Jun Tang]

Bump this...

Nice job Gev....very nice.

So when are you going to mass produce that?

[Leo Mandy]

I too would love to see this on the market!

[Gev Babit]

I dont think I will mass produce guys, it was very hard to just get this one. I will try to get some pictures of the iside if I can. I'm working on a short film, so if I have time I'll try to get the iside pics up!

-Gev

[Brett A. Noe]

If I may be so bold, where did you find the gearbox?

[Jun Tang]

Brett,

Anyword on the Indifocus?

[Nate Weaver]

Originally Posted by Martin Munthe

Adding to that - the focus puller is usually positioned on the other side of the camera. Very nice design but the focus puller should be on the right side of the camera so that the operator has the freedom to operate.

Actually, no. As an assistant cameraman for more than a couple years, usually the job is done from camera left side, as that's where all the other important camera controls that the assistant cameraman deals with are.

[Ben Whitley]

Originally Posted by Riley Stearns

I'm excited about redrock micro's version coming out later this year, but Gev, if I had your resourcefulness, your design looks great.

I would figure another 2 months of them just talking about it (and catching up on Micro35 orders), 3 months for them to finalize a design and release it, 2 months of waiting for the first batch to complete because of a design error or supplier error, another month for the re-design and 4 months for them to actually ship your focus unit. That's (calculating.....) another year before you would actually get it. You will probably be able to buy a real one by then.

[M. Krishna Babu]

Originally Posted by Brett A. Noe

If I may be so bold, where did you find the gearbox?

bret,
check this link. i remember someone using this gear to make a followfocus.


krishna.