GET AUTOFOCUS ON ANY CAMERA // PDMovie LIDAR AF

[@TroyMairs]

Great review! What really interests me is having a battery operated follow focus! (For whatever reason, I hate cables lol). So having a unit that doesn’t need a seperate power source is awesome, I’ll have to check this out for myself. Thanks for the vid!

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks Troy. Yeah it’s definitely a great system. And I agree sometimes it’s great to have something battery powered.

[@JJ_Khailha]

Advert.

[@pauleporterdp]

? What do you mean?

[@DrWasim]

Where can I buy this?

[@pauleporterdp]

Where are you based?

[@DrWasim]

@@pauleporterdp Norway

[@pauleporterdp]

I’m not sure if there is already a distributor for Norway. There are a little slow to bring it in to the European market. If you can’t find it online in Norway I would reach out to pdmovie and ask.

[@einfilm]

​@@DrWasim There is an Italian shop which is shipping the PDMovie Lire Air 3 Smart to Europe. I,ve got mine a few days ago.

[@DrWasim]

@@einfilm Great! Do you have the name of the shop?

[@avoloskov]

how its works with zoom lens like a sigma 18-35? when you colabr.. on wide 18mm and do it zoom to 35mm do you need colabrt. again or its will be works?

[@pauleporterdp]

Hello, thanks for watching :) so is the zoom Lens is parfocal then you just need to calibrate it for one focal length and you’re good to go. If not you need to do it for every focal length in the range of your lens. But I’ve seen that it works just with one calibration on the sigma.

[@avoloskov]

@@pauleporterdp okey thx you very much

[@pauleporterdp]

You’re welcome

[@АлександрС-ж8щ]

Does autofocus work only in the center or at the side points too? If yes, how to choose them? What is the autofocus area?

[@pauleporterdp]

It is mostly in the Center so the direction the sensor is pointing to.

[@АлександрС-ж8щ]

@@pauleporterdp thank you

[@pauleporterdp]

You’re welcome. Unfortunately you can’t see what the AF area is. But from my experience it’s not too narrow so even if you’re a little away from the middle it works fine

[@АлександрС-ж8щ]

@@pauleporterdp one more question - how loud is it? Can you hear it on shotgun mic on camera?

[@pauleporterdp]

The motor itself is not it depends on the lens

[@kris_thecrisp]

what's the difference between Live Air 3 Smart and Live Air 3 Smart Mini?

[@pauleporterdp]

What I have in the video is the Live Air 3. From my understanding the mini has a smaller motor

[@wadfasfsdfdsfsf]

How's The torque? Esp with harder gears

[@pauleporterdp]

Good question. It could be harder but for me it worked well.

[@MineMarvCraft]

Gute Erläuterung, danke für das Video. Ich überlege mittlerweile seit fast einem halben Jahr mir es für mein Canon EOS M Rig mit Magic Lantern RAW (Crop mood) zu holen, da beim fortlaufenden aufnehmen, bei Bewegung es schwer ist, das Bild immer in Fokus zu halten.. die Sache ist, das ich bei vielen Objektiven eine variable Brennweite habe.

[@pauleporterdp]

Danke fürs zuschauen. Ja mit einer variablen Brennweite ist das natürlich schwierig. Das funktioniert nur mit Zoom objektiven die Parfokal sind

[@MineMarvCraft]

@@pauleporterdp Parfokal ich denke ein sigma 18-35mm f1.8 EF fällt nicht darunter ?

[@pauleporterdp]

Also es gibt zumindest Videos wo Leute das mit dem 18-35 nutzen und es funktioniert wohl hervorragend.

[@KevinvanDiest]

Does it work with anamorphic? Did you try it?

[@pauleporterdp]

No I didn’t but it should work since it’s not different mechanically to a spherical lens

[@KevinvanDiest]

@@pauleporterdp okay ..just curious because anamorphic is usually more difficult to focus manually ..so I guess it more depends on the calibration of the lens.

[@pauleporterdp]

Yes I think once it is calibrated it works fine

[@hoodflicks3390]

Will this work with a gh5s?

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for watching. Yes It works on every camera

[@charlesalexander4156]

Great video! Does this work on a speedbooster ?

[@pauleporterdp]

Yes it does. I use the canon speed booster

[@ricardopedrosa452]

does it works with matte box on the front?

[@pauleporterdp]

No I also explain and show that in the video.

[@lenhister]

Thanks for the vid! What lens did you use at 3:00?

[@pauleporterdp]

You’re welcome. It’s the Helios 44-2 ;)

[@redumbrella4218]

Thank you so much! Great job!

[@pauleporterdp]

Thank you I’m glad that you liked it

[@MONEYVAL9]

i can see issues with mounting this.

[@pauleporterdp]

Yes this can be tricky

[@aram.v]

I can never get the collaboration correct. I'm stupid

[@pauleporterdp]

What is the issue?

[@bijanbah]

Hi Paul Coole Videos! Ich hätte eine Frage die mir PD Movie nicht wirklich beantworten konnte. Was passiert wenn man während der AF an ist mit dem Wheel eingreifen will um den Focus zu ändern? Ist das möglich oder geht nur rein Manuel oder rein AF.

[@pauleporterdp]

Danke dir ☺️ ich hoffe du hast aufs Abo gehauen 🫶 Ja wenn du währenddessen das handwheel drehst hört der AF auf. Zumindest bei meiner Unit

[@hasimhalim5016]

you can try use dummy battery for LI42B battery for power solution ;)

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks, will check that :)

[@RuScatt]

Получается, если на расстоянии пяти метров ничего нет, то он не сфокусируется на бесконечность без посторонней помощи?

[@pauleporterdp]

Sorry do you speak English?

[@RuScatt]

@@pauleporterdp Sorry, I have an automatic translation of comments in the KZbin app. My question is what happens if objects closer than five meters do not fall into the lidar field of view. Does the lens focus to infinity or does it stay at five meters?

[@pauleporterdp]

It then goes to infinity yes

[@christopherjahn8559]

That looks absolutely promising. How does it work with a photo lens that has no hard stops

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for watching. You can adjust it for photo lenses manually. So it can be used with every lens

[@JJ_Khailha]

This, from PDMovie when I emailed… If the lens itself has no hard stop limit and no depth-of-field scale frame, I am sorry that the autofocus function cannot be compatible with this type of lens. Best regards Jacob

[@tecno8335]

Dji new auto focus is INSANE

[@pauleporterdp]

That’s true, thanks for watching

[@greentokyo]

Aw man, no infinity focus? That’s a dealbreaker for me. Thanks for pointing this out! Great review!

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for watching :)

[@pavel.zakharov]

You can switch it to manual focus and set infinity at any time if needed.

[@dr.nathaliepruschenk7256]

This is Great. But I Need a Cage on my Camera am I right?

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for watching. Not necessarily. You get a fixture that you can mount to the cold shoe as well

[@arrangearrange]

WILD

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for watching 👀

[@florinbalaican7419]

You put canon red black magic but if you didn’t put arri your video is incomplete.

[@pauleporterdp]

Thanks for your support

[@dimitrimoonlight]

It's only focus the center the frame😅

[@pauleporterdp]

Not only also a bit of the surrounding

[@MyMarketingGuy101]

Even if it did, isn’t that better than no AF at all? You people kill me 😂

[@dimitrimoonlight]

@@MyMarketingGuy101 I have my god fingers can focus any manual lenses 😼

[@MyMarketingGuy101]

@@dimitrimoonlightok, so make a video and show everyone on KZbin how to use your “God finger” technique 😂….. and even if you are good at it you will never be as good and precise as lidar. It’s just impossible.

[@OSKVIDCreativemedia]

@@dimitrimoonlightYea show me at run n gun situation including you follow subject at same time!