Nucleus Nano II Follow Focus Wireless Lens Control System WLC-T05

This is a great motor, and a great controller. The Original Nano has a reputation of being a bit under powered and it isn't really up to focusing the Sigma 18-35mm this Motor is a lot stronger. If you have Tiltas advanced ring controller, it has a mode switch to switch between dji and tilta motor control and this motor will pair with it. This gives a whole range of rigging options that you can use with your cameras. The motors will daisy chain so you can use up to 4 motors. I think tiltas control system works with its other motors. I've only just got this today so my first option was to rig it with my bmpcc original. I have a Tilta battery plate for a sony npf battery this has 12v and 8v outputs, but no USB C, Tilta has a new version which has usb C and i think A as well. It's around twice the price of the one I have. I already use the 12v for camera and the 8V for a portkeys viewfinder (model LEYE) It takes a range of dc but also has a USB A port marked input but I wondered could I use that for the motor? The answer was yes. with a USB A to USB C cable i connected that port to the motor and it works. So just one battery powering the view finder motor and camera. The motor is very good value in its self , the hand wheel is pretty decent supporting bluetooth 2.4 wifi and lanc. I did find the manual a bit too basic, its more a list of screens and functions. It doesn't appear to even tell you how to pair and calibrate fortunately Tilta have a pretty good video on their website that you will probably want to refer too even just to connect. Although the pairing is essentially double click on the motor button to put it in pairing mode select connect and searchthen click the motor button to select the mode e.g focus which is purple. I can't really go far into the controls as i'm still learning how to do stuff. The nato connection has 6 pins which i think work with the RS2 and RS3 gimbals and a lever to lock the plate. You will probably want to buy a bolt on nato rail. E.g my BMPCC cage has a nato rail on the right but i cant use it for the hand wheel because of the way it fastens. I have a nato rail on the top of the cage it fits but the display is side ways on. I think changing the display orientation should be part of the firmware, it may be in a menu somewhere but if not it really should be added as a firmware update. If I had been able to mount the wheel on the side of the cage it would have been upside down (not an issue if you are bolting on another nato rail but still). Over all its a pretty good product but the firmware is still in development , Tilta are in the process of adding more camera support and I don't know if you can automatically rack focus A-B and set travel speed. you can set A and B points and there is haptic feed back. So it's useable as is but it could be better. Right now I think i'm looking for a couple of small nato rails to give me a few more locations for the hand wheel. but yes worth buying. If you have a tilta controller you could just buy the motor to start with if you can find one. No regrets getting the handwheel controller, way better than the original nano.

I had this product for roughly three days before I started to think about returning it. As I write this I still haven't come to a final decision. The things that made this product stand out for me were the screen on the control wheel and the redesigned motor with higher torque. The screen holds the promise of increased functionality, with camera integration and lens profiles that add real distance data to the focus display. Unfortunately, as of writing, very little of this functionality actually exists in any form, or in a form that meets the expectations of a commercial product. My camera was not supported so I could not try the camera screen. This is fine. I'm the camera operator. I know what the settings are on the camera. A dedicated focus puller would delight at this new data, but I rarely use an asisstant, because I'm a lone gunner, apparently a key demograpohic in the design of this product. I understand that very few cameras are supported as this is all very new technology and only the latest DLSRs share exposure setting date. There is also a screen that allows you to select your lens and view actual distance data as you turn the wheel. Amazing. Except the only lens supported right now is called Test and is a generic 50mm profile that will not give any useful data about my own lens and is basically just a part of an elaborate page holder for a feature that might be finished one day. You might say that's harsh, because the wheel gives the option of entering your own lens data. Sort of. Officially (so sayeth the website) this feature isn't meant to be on the wheel because it's not finished but it is because, without it, there aren't really a lot of features that do work. The feature is therefore unfinished, undocumented and yet available (see photo). One day it might work, and we'll rue that day, because unless they realease an app, we'll be stuck inputting data with unreliable touch buttons barely big enough for a baby's pinky. So two of the three screens on the wheel barely work at this time, and certainly not flawlessly. The main screen, which just shows three pull parameters, a progress bar and some info readouts, has problems with the touch activation of the A/B feature which is incredibly unreliable. Placing points is hit and miss. Okay, so perhaps the screens are still in development but the rest of the device basically does the job? I thought this for a while. Then I discovered that the motor doesn't realease when doing a manual calibration and I had to fight against the torque to set up my lens. It took ages. The feel of the haptic feedback for markers and a/b points is loose, long and not particularly positive. Changing between your focus and zoom motors, potentially very easy with a screen, is buried is mentus. You would think a double tap on that parameter on the screen would make for a quick changeover. Not implemented. Thinking about all this, the unfinished nature of the wheel software, the system gateway, is the biggest failure of the Nano 2 for me. Much is promised in the marketing, but I would argue that what you actually get (writing this six months after release) is a pretty bare focus pull with even the core functionality lacking attention to detail in its implementation. I tested the motor at 5V by mistake (in fact this runs on the 16.8V USB-C Power Delivery protocol) and it still managed to turn most of my dslr lenses easily. At 15V it had no major problems as long as you don't ask it to do anything too fast and complicated, in which case you have to wait for it to catch up. I applaud Tilta for championing reasonably-priced cine products and just for thinking about how to innovate in this space, but I can't help thinking this is not the device for me. Tilta talk about how they support lone gunners, but this tech feels like it has both its feet firmly in the era of film and big production teams. It doesn't do enough to make zoom, focus and iris control simpler than simply reaching for the lens, or to make it simpler to do by one person. My biggest disappointment is the lack of automation. Sure, I can't think of a focus unit that currently supports this in this price range. And yet it's pretty obvious. I do endless identical linear zoom movements. And I always have to redo them because they're not smooth enough. Meanwhile here is a high accuracy positioning motor and linked controller with low latency, basically just acting as a glorified remote. What a waste of hardware! Yes, they promise much more in the future. But I've already paid for the product and I need it to start paying for itself. And for the software to be like this six months after release does not bode well. I wasn't prepared to wait indefinitely for Tesla to add full self-drive, and I'm not prepared to wait for these problems to be fixed, or for Tilta to even give us a timetable of fixes.

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Connected and used it once. Worked fine BEFORE I updated the firmware. Then after update; missing lens list and camera lists, system reboot doesn't work, connected once to motor then stopped connecting entirely, every time I updated motor firmware it finished, rebooted and needed to update again. I had visual glitches, one time the screen went white and wherever i pressed it little dots appeared, another time I started it up none of the buttons worked so I couldn't turn it off. Had to let it run out of charge. Can't go back to original firmware settings no matter how hard i try. Scoured the internet for feedback on this and seems other people had a similar issue. Mechanically it seems to work but the software inside seems fundamentally broken. Had nano i 2 years and that worked well till the focus wheel just didn't turn on. Might be time to switch brands methinks. Motors work fine though.

que es perfecto un poco complicado confirar

Ich habe schon länger den Nucleus Nano I im Einsatz und war bis auf einige kleine, etwas nervige Dinge immer sehr zufrieden damit. Ich habe mich aber dennoch sehr auf den neuen Nucleus Nano II gefreut, da er sehr viele unglaublich nützliche neue Features hat und gewisse Funktionen, die man sonst nur bei dem teureren Nucleus M findet. Das Systemmenü ist selbst erklärend und das Touchdisplay funktioniert erstaunlich gut, selbst bei kleinen Auswahlpunkten wie dem Ziffernblock. Ziffernblock? Ja, den benötigt man, um den Nano II mit dem Wifi zu verbinden, um Updates zu installieren. Gut oder schlecht, man muss jedes mal das Wifi Passwort neu eingeben, was ich aber eher nicht als großen Nachteil sondern eher als positiv für die Sicherheit des eigenen Netzwerks empfinde. Generell ist es schon eine super Sache, wenn man das Gerät updaten kann, denn in Zukunft soll die Kompatibilität mit verschiedenen Geräten und Kameramodellen erweitert werden. Ich konnte die Verbindung mit einer BMPCC 6K Pro testen und es funktioniert echt super. Wichtige Parameter können via Bluetooth mit dem Nano II gesteuert werden. Genial und hier muss man natürlich nicht immer wieder neu das Bluetooth einrichten. Hat man mehrere Motoren, können diese hintereinander geschaltet werden und alle über das eine Handwheel gesteuert werden. Da der Motor 2 USB-C Abschüsse hat, kann man alle Motoren mit nur einer Stromquelle versorgen. Wobei aber nur Port 1 einen Ein- und Ausgang besitzt. Der fest verbaute Akku hält so sehr lange hält und super schnell geladen ist. Ein weiterer großer Vorteil gegenüber dem Nano I. Für den Zoom gibt es noch zusätzlich ein Steuerelement an der Seite des Nucleus N II. Selbst die Motorparameter können im Menu eingestellt werden, denn die Motoren sind im Vergleich zum Nano I deutlich stärker und wirken nicht nur durch das Design deutlich robuster. Doch das Wichtigste bei einem Wireless Follow Focussystem ist doch die Verbindung und die Präzision? An beidem gibt es absolut nichts auszusetzen. Die Verbindung ist stabil und die Präzision steht dem Nucleus M in nichts nach. Das setzten einer Range oder von Marken, die dann mit Vibration gemeldet werden, ist kinderleicht und geht super schnell. Selbst die stärke der Vibration ist einstellbar. Aber die Liste von neuen und coolen Features ist lang und würde diese Rezension sprengen. Das Tilta die Kundenmeinungen enorm wichtig sind merkt man immer wieder daran, wie die Produkte den Bedürfnissen der Benutzer angepasst werden und genau so sollte es sein. Fazit?Was man hier für sein Geld bekommt ist einfach unschlagbar. Definitiv fünf Sterne!