Chrosziel Full Servo Drive Unit for the Fujinon Premista. Picture: Chrosziel
Chrosziel Full Servo Drive Unit for the Fujinon Premista. Picture: Chrosziel

Chrosziel Presents its new Full Servo Drive Unit for Fujinon Premista Lenses

2021-01-29
2 mins read

Chrosziel announces its new Full Servo Drive Unit developed exclusively for the new Fujinon Premista lens series. The Servo Unit facilitates the large zoom cinema lens operation and thus, allows the privilege of using the Premistas in Run N’ Gun ENG shooting scenarios. Read its highlights below.

Chrosziel Servo Drive Unit. Picture: Chrosziel
Chrosziel Servo Drive Unit. Picture: Chrosziel

Premista Servo

Zoom cinema lenses are bulky and heavy and were designed for utilization in professional productions, rather than sole-operator situations. Thus, Servo units facilitate lens operation especially when shooting in uncontrolled environments, Run N’ Gun, documentary, limited budget, and small crews. Now, when the complete Fujinon Premista is ready for action, a servo solution is more than welcome.

The Fujinon Premista large format zoom lenses
The Fujinon Premista large-format zoom lenses

Chrosziel Full Servo Drive Unit

Chrosziel has just announced that a full servo drive unit is in development. As stated by Chrosziel: “This completely new, compact and ergonomic design allows you to integrate the ‘Cine Style’ Fujinon Premista lens into your ‘Broadcast’ workflow in a very simple way, because you have all components in one housing!”. The Servo Drive was developed for all three Premista lenses: 28-100mm/T2.9, 80-250mm/T2.9-3.5, and the newly announced 19-45mm/T2.9.

The Chrosziel Full Servo Drive Unit for the Fujinon Premista. Picture: Chrosziel
The Chrosziel Full Servo Drive Unit for the Fujinon Premista. Picture: Chrosziel

This completely new, compact, and ergonomic design allows you to integrate the ‘Cine Style’ Fujinon Premista lens into your ‘Broadcast’ workflow in a very simple way because you have all components in one housing. 

Chrosziel

Chrosziel Premista Servo highlights

Technical Specifications

  • Common servo drive interfaces
  • Demand Input Focus (analog/digital)
  • Demand Input zoom (analog/digital)
  • Lensport- Interface with common features like motor position feedback, VTR-signal, analog Iris signal, serial TTL Interface, etc.
  • Fujinon Remote socked

List of connectors

  • Power: Lemo 0B.305
  • Lens-Port: 12 Pin Hirose reverse
  • Focus-Demand 12 Pin Hirose Socket (Fujinon standard – Pinout)
  • Zoom- Demand 12 Pin Hirose Socket (Fujinon standard – Pinout)
  • Remote (Hirose 20 pin)

Features

  • Three powerful internal compact motors with 0.8 gears, strong enough for cine lenses
  • Engage/Disengage mechanics for every motor (allowing a free run of lens gears).
  • Mini USB-Port for software updates
  • Handling of the metadata provided by the lens (Cooke /i-data) and transfer them to broadcast compatible data formatting.
  • Zoom rocker
  • Power supply 12V-30V DC @ 3A
  • Motor positions stored to ensure a fast operational readiness after lens change or power failure.
The Chrosziel Servo Drive Unit. Picture: Chrosziel
The Chrosziel Servo Drive Unit. Picture: Chrosziel

Price and availability

The price and availability of the Chrosziel Premista Servo yet to be announced. We’ll keep you posted when it will.

Summary

As explained, the servo solution allows the privilege of reducing and facilitating the challenges and muddles that occurred when using large cinema zoom lenses in the field, especially in sole operation scenarios. We’ll update the article when more info on the Premista Servo comes out, so stay tuned.

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Yossy is a filmmaker who specializes mainly in action sports cinematography. Yossy also lectures about the art of independent filmmaking in leading educational institutes, academic programs, and festivals, and his independent films have garnered international awards and recognition.
Yossy is the founder of Y.M.Cinema Magazine.

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