Can LiDAR beat Autofocus??

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[SamHolland]

Would you use LiDAR? Where do you see it going? 🎥

[andrewkemp]

LiDAR has been an absolute GAME CHANGER for my wedding videography. I can one-man cinema lenses in a run and gun setup. It’s nuts man.

[khalilmadovi.]

I'm SO glad I've finally seen someone else with this problem of the motor gear slipping off when calibrating. Couldn't figure out for the life of me what it was, but turns out it is to do with how you rig the rod that the motor is attached to. Has to be super tight and firm!

[handsomeforlaw]

The lidars strength is the ability to focus in the dark.

[MichaelHalsell]

Yes, the product has so much potential. The DJI implementation is not quite refined enough for production. Ideally, if the solution could be separated from the gimbal to make it more versatile. Also, if a secondary container box could be available to prioritize the tracked subject. As you mentioned, the tech is in its infancy. Thanks for the content.

[Drayman]

Using this with an older film cameras and manual lenses would be interesting

[RealWorldReview]

To fix the focus motor calibration issue, you can actually send the end points manually. Perfect for lenses that don’t have hard stops

[CaydenLasher]

As soon as I played the video, I instantly was like "he's sick, isn't he" - hope you feel 100% soon! And another great video as always :)

[kawasakimouse]

If got my mate printing me a custom mount for the LiDAR that just slides onto the Smallrig Mini Matte Box. Its an awesome little print what makes this so more easy to use <3

[SebastianReick]

On a somewhat related topic: I've read somewhere that due to the collaboration between dji and lumix, that with certain dji gimbals the camera video can directly be used for tracking. Have you tried this? I still have an old dji gimbal where you had to mount your phone to the camera hotshoe to use the dji app for tracking. This works great for solo filming to film myself walking around the countryside, but it is very difficult to balance and limits the gimbal range.

[quickdry]

lidar has the advantage when it comes to focus in dark places, yes you want light for the video, but imagine a moving shot through dark and into light, it'll track in the dark well, and already be dialled in as subject moves into light - rather than being "kinda" there and then breathing/snapping on when it finds the target properly and can use the phase/contrast focus.

[zechenwei]

I really like the colors of the outdoor shots! looks nice :P

[pingbookent]

position the focus gear under the lens and try to push the lens upward when you set it up. it will prevent gear slipping.

[versusforward]

Thanks for the informative video as usual Sam, and feel better. I recently had my S5 Mk1 stolen and had to go back to using the G7 and ...god I miss it. It'll be a while before I can afford a new mk2. :(

[REMY.C.]

For that gear grinding maybe you can use a double carbon fiber rods set-up. Smallrig makes one, there's a bottom plate that goes under the camera and a lens support that goes, well, under the lens and the rods go through both on each side, it should give you plenty of rigidity and support for both follow focus and lens.
The whole system is pretty cheap, it's like 50 with the carbon fibers rods.

[DanielPryde]

There's a great Lidar mounting bracket from CheckSix that attaches right to the front of the baseplate, giving you the same perspective as your lens. far better than mounting on top.

[ingobuhrow]

1:44 / Hi Sam, thanks for the very informative video. A short addition. You have shown that the gimbal tracks the person by pressing the front button. This also works without lidar with the S5 II and the S5. At least on my RS3 Mini when it is connected to the gimbal by cable. But apparently not as good as with the lidar. Stay healthy.

[bothhemispheresphotography]

Pierce will be pleased you used "Streets ahead". Other than that egregious error (ha ha), this was a really useful video. Excellent point about the low-lighting focussing capabilities of LIDAR, I'm regretting getting the RS3, instead of the Pro (especially also because I'm shooting with a Z8 now).

[vividstudio]

My experience with filming and auto-focus has been a series of washouts and anxiety as the camera wandered off on its own, getting confused and looking like a robot was hunting for targets. Add to this some of the logical inconsistencies with IBIS – I gave up on the in camera magic.

I am super interested in matching lidar with stabilised manual lenses on cameras without IBIS.

[Nicadeddu]

probably a second version of this lidar could be awesome!