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Thats very kind of you to say.

I tell you what, considering that rumour of them doing a ToF AF system came out the very day after I teased the first video of mine, I unplugged my Amazon Alexa pretty sharpish!
What you are seeing now (and I stress now) is single point, nearest object you point it at and continuous.  I keep droning on about it being part of a more comprehensive focus system but the rest of it does provide more context in terms of an overall solution and how the operational modes dovetail.
Again, this is the jumping off point and what it does NOW isn't the end of what it will do when its production ready.
When I'm back from this trip, I will do something about the overall controller (the wheeled thing with the wires hanging out of it) that will flesh this out a bit more.
With regard to the emitter, it won't cause any issue to anyone's sensor. 
It will blind a human of course but your camera will be fine

Through the smart one, yes.
Its a tricky question as there are a couple of factors that can influence it quite a lot depending on some choices I make design wise.
It will be price appropriate to the price of the cameras it is designed for is about all I can say for now.
No one likes AF enough to pay more than the cost of their camera to improve it!
 

They should consider hiring you tbh

Because there is no hunting involved by the lens and its told to go directly to a specific position without passing go or collecting £200 then any speed differences that there may be are far less apparent if visible at all.
Yes it could target the zoom operation equally as it could focus but I don't know how familiar you are with MFT powered zooms but the bumpy violence with which they move to positions would make your shot look like a shark attack shot from Jaws rather than the beach scene with Brody.
He needs to contribute a bit more then as I'm currently doing all the graft while he's clearly sloping off every afternoon to play golf or get a pedicure.

I'm pretty convinced its doable for them.

I don't own a bmpcc 4k, but I would definitely contribute to this Kickstarter (1) in hopes that the tech eventually makes it's way over to Panasonic cameras and (2) even if it doesn't, I'd love to just say thanks for the gx85 cinelikeD hack.

I'm pretty convinced its doable for them.

It is continuous but we were just moving between two targets.
If the man had come over to steal the plant it would have tracked him and ditto if the plant had come to eat us.
It tracks nearest point but is driveable.
Take what it is that you see it doing now as a jumping off point for what is possible as more info and nuance will be released over the coming months.
I'll keep it out of this thread now and in the main one so normal Pocket4K discussions can be resumed.

I've probably said it before but whoever makes an HDMI input version of this tiltable EVF will make a fortune.

 

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I've run out of gaffer tape making this one so that integration will have to wait for a while.
 

Thanks for the positive feedback.
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I've run out of gaffer tape making this one so that integration will have to wait for a while.
 

The true context of that clip can now be revealed
 
 

Thanks for the positive feedback.
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I've run out of gaffer tape making this one so that integration will have to wait for a while.
 

Thanks for the positive feedback.
Much appreciated.
Please buy it
I've run out of gaffer tape making this one so that integration will have to wait for a while.
 

Funnily enough this is a reasonably easy port to the Micro. 
Which, as I have one, might well happen!
It calibrates the lens to distance so works with all of them in terms of that level of accuracy. There are variances in lenses depending on how much "dead space" there (a lens we were using yesterday had about 40% of the possible positions unused before and after its minimum/maximum focus positions). That doesn't mean it doesn't focus accurately it just means the range of steps between focus points isn't as granular as other lenses. Basically if the camera can focus it so can the adapter.
I'll give some more info regarding point selection at a later time. 
Take this as a first step for now
Thanks. 
No additional motors, it talks directly to the camera's focus control via BLE.
Yes, it does indeed do it continuously.

Funnily enough this is a reasonably easy port to the Micro. 
Which, as I have one, might well happen!
It calibrates the lens to distance so works with all of them in terms of that level of accuracy. There are variances in lenses depending on how much "dead space" there (a lens we were using yesterday had about 40% of the possible positions unused before and after its minimum/maximum focus positions). That doesn't mean it doesn't focus accurately it just means the range of steps between focus points isn't as granular as other lenses. Basically if the camera can focus it so can the adapter.
I'll give some more info regarding point selection at a later time. 
Take this as a first step for now
Thanks. 
No additional motors, it talks directly to the camera's focus control via BLE.
Yes, it does indeed do it continuously.

I knew you were going to say that

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Wow, what a development!  Does the unit have a follow-focus gear to integrate with manual focus lenses or does it only work with Panasonic/Leica lenses?

This is truly amazing work. You should also share the article on the BMD forums.

I knew you were going to say that

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Time of Flight / LiDAR continuous autofocus is really quite remarkable technology. There are rumours Panasonic will implement it on future cameras like the GH6. Don’t you wish the current autofocus-challenged cameras like the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K or GH5 could have amazingly smooth Dual Pixel AF-like performance?
Well, you could soon be in luck. Time of Flight Autofocus is a reality and I’ve seen it working.
With this prototype add-on, a Time of Flight sensor sits in the hotshoe and talks wirelessly to the Pocket 4K. The autofocus motors in the Micro Four Thirds lens are commandeered based on real-time depth sensing information from the LiDAR beam.
I met up with CDA-TEK’s Ian (BTM_Pix on the forum) this week in Manchester to take a look at what he’s been working on.
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