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Only took half a dozen posts to get on to AF......or lack thereof 🤦‍♂️ High end cinema cameras don't really need AF. For a start, there aren't many lenses out there used in cinema that have internal focus motors. Secondly, there is a thing called a 1st AC or 'Focus Puller' that is usually on set when a camera of this calibre is used. Thirdly, there are plenty of manufacturers such as Arri, CineRT, Teradek RT, Preston etc etc that are working on and already provide AF in their lens control systems that CAN be used with manual cine lenses. Pulling focus is part of the narrative, until a lens or AF System can read a script, I don't thing AF will be common in Cinema. Lastly, Imagine watching a film on the big screen.......I would MUCH prefer to see the organic way a Focus puller finds focus to how many AF systems occasionally hunt and snap into focus. It would look awful on the big screen and extremely distracting. I'm not against AF all together.....it has a time and a place but in a camera like this? I don't think so. An autofocus system on a true cinema camera can be used to complement the Focus Puller and used in certain cases. It is part of the focus pullers tool kit and therefore I believe, that it should be incorporated into the lens control system rather than the camera itself.

Hello, yes it is still my jewel 😛 Some pictures in the past days and... weeks, months did with the NX1.