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Dave Gosley
June 29th, 2016, 05:32 AM
Hi

I have put my FS5 onto a rig plate and attached a focus wheel.

I am having trouble identifying the teeth size / pitch on the lens in order to get the correct wheel made up.

Anyone know what it is please?

I'd consider an alternative gear belt method but I think they will cause problems where the belt in joined as the lens has no hard stops. Am I wrong in thinking that?

Thanks...

Piotr Wozniacki
June 29th, 2016, 05:59 AM
When close to the belt joint, just a single "jerky" short turn of the follow focus wheel will change the lens focus wheel range for you...

Ray Lee
June 29th, 2016, 11:02 AM
Follow focus systems are not really very useful on Sony lenses (speed sensitive so you will never hit the same mark twice) but having said that I do use them once in while for shoulder mounting) and got custom rings from followfocusgears.com $35

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Hi

I have put my FS5 onto a rig plate and attached a focus wheel.

I am having trouble identifying the teeth size / pitch on the lens in order to get the correct wheel made up.

Anyone know what it is please?

I'd consider an alternative gear belt method but I think they will cause problems where the belt in joined as the lens has no hard stops. Am I wrong in thinking that?

Thanks...