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Can't get focus scale to show on Arri wcu4


Ryan Spearman

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Yes I have been through this recently. You have to manually program the values into the SD card in the camera. Even though they are showing up on the handset you still have to manually input around a dozen points. Once you do that the depth of field gauge and other cool features will pop up. It took me about two days of prep to figure this out.

 

The manual input is on the camera side. You have to make a new profile for every lens and then manually switch the lens profile when you change lenses. It only takes a few seconds so it's not as a big of a hassle as it seems. My focus puller loved the system once we figured it out.

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It's actually the arri version of the cinetape that came in the kit from the rental house, the UDM-1. It had a cable that connects directly to the camera. I don't exactly remember how it all hooked up but it all worked once I got everything plugged in correctly and made the custom lens profiles. You would think it would be able to work with just the lens data from the Cookes. But it doesn't seem to work that way. Maybe in a future firmware update.

 

The good news is this would actually work with any lens even non LDS lenses. Just manually enter the lens values, store them in the SD card, and the camera remembers it.

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It's really easy to map your own lenses in prep, might be overkill to be downloading them from elsewhere.

Plus every serial number could be just that slight bit different- so best to do it for each job individually. Eventually you'll build up a list so thorough, you might just have every lens

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It's really easy to map your own lenses in prep, might be overkill to be downloading them from elsewhere.

Plus every serial number could be just that slight bit different- so best to do it for each job individually. Eventually you'll build up a list so thorough, you might just have every lens

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