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Mabou2 Posted at 10-31 07:33
Hi Mindy, I'm not really sure what I would show in a video. It's a "feel" thing for something that is personal. Many people might think that the focus wheel is perfect as is, but those of us who have used either manual focus pulling or third party focus by wire will understand. Your engineers made decisions as to how the focus knob on the ronin should ramp, and they did a fine job, but the software/firmware should allow the users to dig deeper and customize the functionality, just like you do for how the motors respond on the actual gimbal where you allow us to personalize the motor ramping, speed, dead-band, etc and save the settings for three separate setups.
Just give us access to a friendly UI that allows us to customize the action of the focus wheel too? Sometimes I might want the focus to move quickly, other times I might want really slow moves, etc. There are a lot of lenses out there, and they each act a little differently, it woud be great to be able to customize the functionality of the focus pull to better match a lens and need.
The reason why the customization menu/function is not provided is because the control protocol we received from Panasonic is not giving us too many option in the manual focus adjustment. If you connect a GH5 or a GH5s to the official Panasonic Lumix Tether program, you will see that the focus adjustment section simply provide 2 step values, fast, or slow. It's not like they provide a range of speed from 0 to 255 or 0 to 65535 that we can utilize any value in between. Also, the fire by wire mechanism for focus pulling has its own limitations as you pointed out but we're not the one that can change that with limited access to camera control protocol.
Of course we could also provide a more accurate and linear feel with the new focus motor set which will be released soon. It's an addon, connects to the Ronin-S through a CAN Bus cable included in the motor set, and allowing A-B endpoint calibration, etc. |
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