Stokestack
12-04-2008, 03:58 PM
Hi all.
I figure the electronic interconnection between two Scarlets is an obvious requirement. The cameras will need to share frame sync and all other setup info (shutter speed/angle, ISO tagging, what have you), with one camera being the master and the other the slave.
But what about the manual-focus lenses? Will there be come kind of mechanical linkage between the focusing rings? And then there's zoom.
Trying to use SLR lenses does present the problem of excessive space between them, but it does raise the interesting possibility of syncing their focus by using their built-in focusing motors. Keep the master camera's lens on manual focus and the slave on auto; Scarlet continuously monitors focusing-ring position and transmits it to the slave camera. It would remain to be seen if the lenses' encoders and motors are fast and accurate enough to make this viable, but I'd think that they are.
I figure the electronic interconnection between two Scarlets is an obvious requirement. The cameras will need to share frame sync and all other setup info (shutter speed/angle, ISO tagging, what have you), with one camera being the master and the other the slave.
But what about the manual-focus lenses? Will there be come kind of mechanical linkage between the focusing rings? And then there's zoom.
Trying to use SLR lenses does present the problem of excessive space between them, but it does raise the interesting possibility of syncing their focus by using their built-in focusing motors. Keep the master camera's lens on manual focus and the slave on auto; Scarlet continuously monitors focusing-ring position and transmits it to the slave camera. It would remain to be seen if the lenses' encoders and motors are fast and accurate enough to make this viable, but I'd think that they are.