Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by anigbrowl on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:22PM
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Blackmagic make video cameras for a specific niche and they're great (I want one myself). But most of their customers buy into the Micro 4/3 mount system. PL mount type cine lenses have never had autofocus and likely never will. The job of the focus puller is not just to keep things in focus but to adjust in harmony with the mood and pace of the scene. There are separate remote lens control systems for when a camera is mounted on a gantry and so on. Framing and focus are treated as distinct jobs on a large set.
Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by frostburg on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:42PM
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Cine lenses don't have camera-operated controls, so it wouldn't work.
You could control the aperture of some 'interesting for cinema' lenses (Zeiss Otus for Canon mount, for example) from the camera, but this would require unwarranted amount of reverse engineering.
Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by se6astian on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:20AM
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Active lens mounts are on the road-map: https://www.apertus.org/axiom-beta-status but it will indeed require a serious amount of reverse engineering for each different lens system:
https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Lens_mounts
Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by SpliffnCola on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:50PM
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Agreed on all points. Due to the modular design, and I'm assuming here, it seems wireless (and on camera) focus pulling could be added onto the cam.
Something like http://www.rtmotion.com/lens-control-system or https://cinegears.com/product/cinegears-single-axis-wireless...
Not sure about aperture adjustment from the cam body itself; usually, not always though, cine lenses are constant aperture primes or zooms.
Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by frostburg on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:40PM
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Cine lenses almost universally have variable aperture. When a zoom is "constant aperture" what is means is that the maximum aperture is the same across the entire focal range, not that you cannot close it down when needed.
Re:Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and ...
by SpliffnCola on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:29PM
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Thanks for the correction. That aspect slipped my mind.
Having an API for the lens and aperture would have opened it up for developers to use these creatively, such as focusing on one point in the frame and then zipping focus to another point using easing functions.