31Aug DIY A/B Hard Stops for Follow Focus
Here’s a genius little way to add hard stops to a follow focus. While working on his AMC Contest Video (seen here), Chris Weiss decided to remove the white marking disc from a Gini Follow Focus (as seen here) and added a couple of cheap binder clips. As you can see, it’s fully adjustable hard stops so you don’t over/under pull. Great tip. [Thanks Chris]
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September 1st, 2012 at 5:13 am
Cool idea if you don’t have an assistant to pull focus for you. I’ll try it out sometime and see if it’s worth dealing with as a full-time solution.
September 1st, 2012 at 6:17 am
Brilliantly DIY and cheap!
September 1st, 2012 at 7:22 am
If this were a movie from the ’80s, someone would have to say “It’s so crazy, it just might work.”
September 1st, 2012 at 7:44 am
Brilliant.
September 1st, 2012 at 8:40 am
Wow, This is Freaky! I went to bed thinking about ways to come up with my own Hard Stops for my RJ Follow Focus after seeing your post on the new Fotga DP500II… I spend a while searching for the parts seeing if I could buy them, then I thought I would DIY… Now this… So Cool!
Emm I LOVE YOUR SITE! IT ROCKS!
September 1st, 2012 at 10:49 am
I’ve been using them for a while on my d|focus ff. I gaff tape ‘em to be sure they don’t slide of pop off from the smooth marking ring.
September 1st, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Nice! I’ve totally been doing this for awhile, works good for my nikkor g lenses. I usually have a handfull of those little clips attached to one of my little filter bags at all time.
September 1st, 2012 at 8:31 pm
So simple but yet so innovative, See this is one of the many reasons why you tune into CheesayCam on a consistent basis!!!
September 2nd, 2012 at 12:43 am
F******ING GENIUS!
September 2nd, 2012 at 3:56 am
God, I love Cheesycam. I was considering the new fotga because of the hardstops, but why dish out $160 when I can add hardstops to my gini for $1.
Thanks Chris for being brilliant enough to come up with this, and thanks Emm for sharing.
September 3rd, 2012 at 8:50 am
Does anybody know what size the clips are?
Also, I noticed that he was using a follow focus on a pico flex dolly.
I wonder how difficult it is to do that?
I’d think you’d wanna use a wireless follow focus for pico dolly shots.
September 4th, 2012 at 9:34 am
Another possibly cheaper option would be cable clamps like the following: http://www.drillspot.com/products/351349/Panduit_CCS50-S8-C_Cable_Clamp?s=1&gclid=CP62z8SrnLICFahAMgodvjAAQw
I have a Fotga follow focus, and large nylon versions of these clamps seemed to fit the Fotga better than the binder clips.