Focus Puller

A tiny build I did to go on motion control. power for the camera and control cable for the Nucleus came from the robot (🤖 took my job focusing) so thats literally the full build.

This is my camera, we used it for B-cam on a commercial recently. I had to pull focus and zoom while rolling so I hooked up one of my Nucleus-M handles to the camera and used it like a Preston Microforce. Not the most optimal setup, but it worked for what we needed.

This is for some social media ads done for a very large potato chip brand doing a collab with another big time athlete

Little messy cause I had to find places for all the sounds stuff to fit that we normally don't have to deal with, but it ended up working out pretty well.

Love having all my tools nearby and accessible at all times.

Another view in the light:

A and B cam builds for a 3 day series of national commercials I worked on recently.

Always there in case I forget what my job isi

Music Video with the DP on steadicam running around the beach on vintage Lomos. It was actually tough because the focus throw was so crazy. You basically wouldn't need to adjust focus from 30+ feet down to 6 feet, and then after that you'd have to crank it quick. Then we threw a diopter on them...boy oh boy

My back left tire exploded on the freeway on the way to this gig and I had to get towed to the dealership then Uber to set. I was 2 hours late but made it just before they started shooting.

My setup was a little janky for this one, it's more refined now lol

I was 2nd ACing this feature and this was my 1st's cart, but I just got my own YaegerPro as well. Best camera cart in the business, built like a tank and modular enough for any situation.

Anamorphic lenses with lots of crazy lighting and flares. Movie isn't out yet, we'll see how it turns out.

This thing is awesome. For reference (probably it's most recognizable use), that's how they did some of the shots in Kendrick's "Humble" music video. They literally control it with a look-alike Xbox 360 controller.

This was also a really easy day for me to 1st AC because the focus pulls are also programmable so I basically just did lens and filter swaps.

This thing is a beast! Lot of improvements, some new features that were "meh" (mainly the burnt-in noise textures, why not just do that in post with more flexibility?) The operator-side menu is a nice addition. Really wish they'd give us internal ND 0.3 already though.

I 1st AC'd a Chris Brown music video a few months later and we had the 35 as A-Cam on a technocrane with a Mini as B-Cam. That was fun, the camera is nice of course and performed well, though it took us about 25 minutes to find the only D-tap port located on the bottom of the camera.

It worked, I rolled around with my pelicans, we got our shots and went home.

We had fun playing with this Cartoni Lambda 25. It lets you spin the camera around quickly and easily using a wheel and momentum. Mounts to any mitchell receiver.

Condensation is a bitch. These were spherical Lomos. Old Russian lenses. Luckily water didn't get inside the glass elements, so we wiped them down and let them dry and went on with our day.

Setup from a feature I 1st AC'd last year in Los Angeles. The grips brought their trunks.

A minimalist build I did recently for a fast-moving doc I 1st AC'd in Chicago.