The Brevis35 Imaging System
 

I'm firing up a new thread here as the name of my device has changed, as well as the web site. The site will be going through a major facelift over the next few days, compliments of a graphically talented tester, however the product forum is there and links to sample footage. I have a tester group that will be receiving the devices in a few weeks.

Expect a world class follow focus, flip module, jib, and dolly system to follow shortly. Thanks for looking.

Id like a follow focus, jib, and dolly system.. do you ship to new brunswick? :)

Andrew, the FF, dolly and jib items will likely be months as I'm completely focused on getting the Brevis into final production. Unfortunately, the site depics the prototype still...but that will be fixed in about two weeks.

The footage looks good. I didn't see an estimated price on the website. Also, will it possibly work with a higher end camera with 72mm threads, like the FX1?

Robert, there's a fleet of them heading out in about 3 weeks to users with just about every camera out there. It works fine on the XL1s I tested with 72mm threads. The product forum will have sections for each camera so you'll know what to expect. The production version will use 58mm threads so you'd need a 72 to 58 step down (provided). Final price isn't posted yet as I've yet to receive a bill from the machine shop doing the CNC work on the parts. The initial testing group paid $530, but I know that I cannot sustain this price. If I was using ABS, and hot glue yes, but the chassis is custom mandrelled carbon fibre tube, and the entire parts list done by CNC. The diffuser is being engineered to order as well...and therefore not cheap. Having rechargeable internal power/external power capabilities and providing a "world" power charging system adds a bit more to the cost.

My guess is the $700 range for the adapter/charger/case. There'll be a pre-order mailing list up in a day or so.

cant wait to see some footage from some more cams. i like the power supply alot.

The cinevate and the cinemek website are very similar...very similar.
Not trying to rain on anyone's parade here just pointing out the similarities in the two site.
Is this Brevis supposed to be in direct competition with the Guerilla35?
If so you just might beat them to the punch seeing as how the G35 is being redesigned at the moment and it's really quiet over there on their message boards.
Good luck with the Brevis35.

Erik, Cinevate = Cinema + Innovate. It was hard finding something not taken, or not for sale for $4000. One of the beta testers is doing up a great new site which should be up on a few days.

this is the guskers35 redesigned

I guess you could say that Andrew, but really the Brevis is a completely different approach...oscillator vs spinner. The spinner is still my preference in some respects but I just couldn't live with the light loss.

Ah.
Well I can't wait to hear more about it and check out the new site design.
Consider me intrigued.
Thanks Dennis.

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Thank you Dylan.

Thanks Dylan.

$700, eh?

Might I hope...$700...Canadian?

All the best, Dennis.

sincerely,


ian

Well, given the value of the canuck buck these days, it might as well be 700 CAN :-) I could strip it down to pair off 100 or so, but then you'd lose the power options, charger, and the rather hip "shipping" container.

The tree hugger in me doesn't want to see folks turfing disposable batteries ... and with a confirmed 20 hour runtime I think the power system will be popular with the unit's owners. David Suzuki would approve.

My concern with the built in batteries would be the "what if" scenarios...

For example: What if you shoot a 14 hour day...and the camera assistant forgets to plug in the adapter to charge for the next day? (or , less likely, the power goes out overnight)

I would at least like to have some other option to continue shooting. Is there a way to run it while it is plugged in maybe?

Good question Jason. There are three power options: internal, charger as AC adapter (1.5 hour full charge while unit is running), or an external battery pack. Four NiMh AAs would provide in excess of 150 hours runtime.

Just curious -- have you looked into the life cycle of the power cells you're using? How many charges are you expecting to get out of the power cells?

Yes Jim. Providing users follow the directions for care and feeding of their power system, and use the provided hardware to charge, they will see ~700 to a max of ~1000 charge cycles. To answer your next question, they can easily be replaced :-)

Works for me! :)

Ah, cool. Does that mean a user could replace them without a hex key or something specialised?

I ask because personally I'd prefer to be able to change out batteries on the fly and was just wondering if your design accomodates both that and charging...

Jim, see post 18 ....