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Re: 49 Awesome Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects

Christopher R Field — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:46:25 -0000

There is a project for you. Project Chronos, it is a DIY Timelapse rail that will beat out any other timelapse rail on the market period. :) There have already been dozens of builds.

Re: A Time Lapse Rail Made With 3D Printed Parts

Christopher R Field — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:05:26 -0000

Hi Folks, I am Chris from The Chronos Project. Tom built his system off our plans, he designed and printed all the 3d modeled parts, however on our website we have the instruction manuals, schematics, plans, code, and detailed step by step instructions for assembling your own system. Toms parts can be purchased from shapways, we do offer machined brackets for the system as well. The entire thing is open source and this is certainly one of our favorite builds!

For more information check us out at www.Thechronosproject.com

Re: This Device Will Make Follow Focus and Moving Timelapses a Piece of Cake

Christopher R Field — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:14:16 -0000

James I always have and always will be an advocate for you.

It was never my intention to try to insult you, or try to ride on any credit. Our design is very much our own design, and as you said others have made these as well. We were just the first to use it with a read mounted stepper motor via belt drive and include suspension, and the first to try a campaign on kickstarter. And while that is nothing incredible, it does solve several issues i have seen from just about every other manufacturer. One of the big ones is the difficulty in perfectly centering the Cinevate rings. If they are not perfectly centered it can move the lens. Our design solves that problem and also removes possible backlash between the gear and lens.

The real heart of the Lens Apparatus is the control system. As you know we have been working on The Chronos Project for a couple years now, and I really did put in a lot of time and thought to give as much control as possible. I had to spend quite a bit of time optimizing the code, and rewrote a substantial amount of it in order to offer as much flexibility as possible to control it. I learned a lot in this, not all lenses work the same. The fly by wire lenses have all sorts of strange behaviors i did not expect, it was a very large effort to figure out the ways to counter these problems and I'm very please with how well it all works.

In my view the only revolutionary thing about our design is our approach to controlling it with a mixture of keyframing and live ramping to make sure it will work with any lens.

I don't know exactly what "problems" you feel there are with the design, obviously this is not a design you would have chosen. However we do have pre-production units out, they have been tested by a variety of users on a variety of lenses. They do work and they work extremely well. We would not simply slap something together without testing it fully and sell it. That is not the way we work. You have not used our design, you do not have one of our pre-production units, and I do not feel it is fair for you to come on here and start making claims of "problems" that you can not verify or validate in an attempt to undermine all the hard work we have done.

Anyway we wish you luck in your endeavors.

-Chris
The Chronos Project.

Re: This Device Will Make Follow Focus and Moving Timelapses a Piece of Cake

Christopher R Field — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:36:20 -0000

Thanks Brett. I hope everything is working well for you. James and i very much do see eye to eye when it comes to interacting with the customers. We do have online ordering up on the website now, but i prefer to exchange a few emails to make sure whatever we have will in fact be a good fit for the client. Several times i have referred people to competitors because i knew their system would be a better fit for the specific application. That is my favorite part of The Chronos Project.

We do have a video on our Vimeo channel that does showcase one of James's lens motors, I did plug him, and provided the information for his controller, we still have his email linked on our facebook page in a gallery dedicated to his Lens motors.

Re: This Device Will Make Follow Focus and Moving Timelapses a Piece of Cake

Christopher R Field — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:46:59 -0000

James like i said i have always been an advocate for you, and always will.

I would always be more than happy to plug anything you do on our website because i know you put a lot of effort and care in your craft, and you do not half-ass anything.

Re: 10 Tips On How To NOT Get Hired Again As A Production Assistant

Christopher R Field — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:18:03 -0000

Sounds like somebody got fired. hahahaha

Re: Students Use 3-D Printer To Produce Prosthetic Arm

Christopher R Field — Fri, 09 May 2014 17:00:52 -0000

There is no cure for cancer, or the cold. The fact is if anyone did create a cure for cancer it would be regarded as the most important medical breakthrough since vaccinations. The scientists/chemists/bioligists would be able to write their ticket because anybody would provide them whatever funding for any project they ever wanted to do, they would receive nobel prizes, and go down in the history books as the people who cured cancer.
Any company that managed to create the cure would literally become a multi billion dollar company overnight.

Sure the medical world makes money off Chemo. But not nearly what they would if they could cure it. Say Company X gets the cure. Now EVERY cancer patient would want company X. And unless we manage to figure out how to prevent cancer in the first place, there will ALWAYS be new patients coming in.

Re: Two ways to fix the d-pad buttons on your Fujifilm X-T1

Christopher R Field — Wed, 28 May 2014 08:17:16 -0000

Major problem?.... if you say so.... mine has the light leak, but unless you are flashing a high power flashlight into the open port on the camera during high iso long exposures it is 100% completely irrelevant.
As for the buttons, that has nothing to do with quality control. That is just the product, it seems they may have started shipping them with better buttons, but that does not mean the other buttons were operating incorrectly.
Considering the kind of crap we would get from Nikon or Canon, these are very minor issues.

Re: Two ways to fix the d-pad buttons on your Fujifilm X-T1

Christopher R Field — Wed, 28 May 2014 09:31:34 -0000

No, im not wrong. Just because you got one with a bunk wheel does not mean thier QC is garbage, if you rate everything off that ridiculous metric then every company on the planet has garbage QC, and if that is the case, then fuji is actually pretty good against the competition. You probably either dont know how to use it, broke it yourself, or, dont even have one and are just trolling the boards. :)

As for management, Nikons answer for the D600 oil splatter fest answer was to release a new camera (D610) and tell people to buy the D610. You call that proper management?

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, but your remarks hardly do anything to show poor QC. It just shows that believe it or not, sometimes something has to be returned.

Go buy a sony or something

Re: Two ways to fix the d-pad buttons on your Fujifilm X-T1

Christopher R Field — Wed, 28 May 2014 10:40:57 -0000

Are you drunk? or are you just an idiot? I never anywhere at any time said Nikon cameras are shit, so you can take that straw man and shove it in the port where the sun does not shine. :)
Dont forget, every single camera you listed is more expensive than the FUji XT-1.
Its amazing how many people just want to jump in and stomp on Fuji. If you are so insecure about your Nikon camera system, then go shop around.

Re: X-T1 with hardware upgrade coming soon?

Christopher R Field — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:00:16 -0000

+1
Haters gonna hate.

Re: Photokina, what else could come? New Flashes, silver X-T1… and X-T1 “limited edition” rumors are back!

Christopher R Field — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:16:50 -0000

I think you are putting way too much thought into these rumors... How is the X-T1 or any of the glass lagging behind in the market? Canon, Nikon, Pentax, m43, non of them have anything that compete very well against the X-t1 (Edit.. let me specify in the mirrorless market), and the only thing sony's a7 has over the X-t1 is a larger sensor... Sensors are improving steadily, however Fuji seems to be the only one who spends much time with control and ergonomics.

Re: Photokina, what else could come? New Flashes, silver X-T1… and X-T1 “limited edition” rumors are back!

Christopher R Field — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:05:39 -0000

Im gonna edit this and tone it down a notch, your post really irritate me, so let me do this a little less "irate"

I clearly mentioned that i was talking about mirrorless cameras. I never made any comparisons that claimed the X-trans 2 sensor is better than any full frame sensor.
I never made any comparisons about the Fuji Xt-1, or any of its glass, against any DSLR or pro canikon glass.
I never made any of the points you are referring to. SO your entire reply makes no sense, maybe you were making an attempt to reply to somebody else. That is the only conclusion i can come to at this point because your reply to my post makes no sense whatsoever.

All my points were clearly discussing the Mirrorless market, and all of my points stand true within that scope, if you want to open that to encompass the pro DSLR market, that is an entirely different conversation to be had, and your reply severely misrepresents anything i would have said in such a conversation.

If you WERE responding to me, and actually read my post, then i dont appreciate such a thin attempt at building straw man arguements. I did not make any comments that would warrant any of your comments. The only one tht is even remotely on target would be the comment about ergonomics, i have a FUjiXE-1, and XM-1 that i use for studio timelapse, and you are bang on with that comment, i use a FUji X-T1 which i use for general phography and your ergonomic comment does not hold up against that particular camera, i cannot comment on the Pro-1 or 1A. However considering the other options in the mirrorless world, the X-t1 would easily be a contender for the best ergonomics.

The one thing i can not reconcile on your post is you mentioned that Fuji is the worst contender on the serious market, right after you claim to have been shooting with it for 3 years. If they have been such a miserable experience, why stick with it for 3 years? I can only assume at this point you are trolling.

Have a nice day

Re: Microsoft acknowledges Surface Book, Surface 4 Pro problems, has no timetable for fixes

Christopher R Field — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:55:28 -0000

The MS Book had quite a few issues at launch. I have one, and they have all been completely resolved by the last couple software patches. The only issue that remains is the sleep issue, but this article severely overstates it. I did quite a bit of testing and found it would drop about 5% per hours while in sleep mode (however if running certain apps it seems to increase this)
However by setting the device to go into hibernate an hour after it goes to sleep while on battery, it seems to drain on an open/close basis, rather than an over all time basis. Meaning if you shut the lid and come back the next day, it has lost about 2-3% in batter life, whereas if i open and shut it 3 times in 5 hours, it would have dropped closer to 10-12%.
This in my view is not really crippling. It wakes from sleep in about 5-6 seconds, where as it wakes from hibernate in about 15 seconds.
I would like to see the sleep issue fixed, but i hardly consider this a big problem. If an addidional 10 seconds after it is closed for an hour+ is too much for somebody to handle, then well.. i dont know what to tell you.
Aside from that, since the last update my Surface Book has been rock solid. Even before they fixed the bugs, it was still completely usable.
And the "No timetable for fixes" Microsoft has repeatedly said it expects to have this resolved in the first quarter of 2016. This article even speaks to this.

I get the impression "Extreme Tech" is either sort of an apple fanboy rag, or, it is trying to boost clicks to its lame site by hyper-sensationalizing this issue.

Re: Bend is Where Old People Go to Retire

Christopher R Field — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:36:07 -0000

The photographer that you stole that photo from seems pretty upset that you would use it without permission, and then not answer his emails on the matter.

Re: New Sony A7rIV tests and reviews

Christopher R Field — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:47:51 -0000

Go f yourselves. Lol