Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today we're going to take a quick look at this nifty
little servo zoom controller from Crozier so this is specifically designed
for the Fuji MK lenses and these have been such popular lenses they're
absolutely brilliant they're one of my favorite lenses for the Sony e-mount
cameras so if you're only an FS 7 or an FS 5 or even maybe an f5 and f55 with
the right adapter these are lovely little affordable cinema small light
zooms but they're fully manual and so if you want to do a servo zoom like you can
on sort of Fugees higher-end lenses you need this little gadget from cradle
because these are such light lenses anyway you really don't want anything
adding too much bulk or weight to your setup which is why I'm so pleased that
this little zoom controller it's only 220 grams and that includes the cables
so it's really not gonna you're not going to notice it hanging on the side
of your lens at all it's so lightweight it uses Sony's own server rockers from
their hand grip or you can use any lank controller because it's simply taking a
light port from the camera into this and then another light port out of this into
the controller and that can actually pass camera communications through it as
well so you still get all the functionality of your Sony grip
including menu control your joysticks your user buttons and your record start
and stop trigger which is absolutely brilliant so they built what they're
calling three different modes into this so they call it silent mode documentary
mode and then live slash hard cut mode and effectively what these are is three
different speed settings for three different types of work so silent mode
is gonna when you push the zoom rocker all the way down it's just going to
slowly and silently creep forwards or backwards documentary is going to act as
normal like most servo rockers do and then live
slash Chanukah is going to zoom in and out really fast so you can really
quickly go from telephoto to wide and this of course only affects the max
speed if you just eat forward on their server control you're going to be able
to do slow moves in any of these modes but it's going to be mean that you can
really quickly change between each of those three modes on the fly it did take
me a while to be honest to figure out how to change the modes it's not exactly
intuitive but basically the way you do it is you hold the server rocker down to
zoom in all the way until it gets to the end and then just keep holding it for
about 10 seconds and that should change the mode so if you do that and then you
zoom in and out you should see that it's going a lot faster or a lot slower than
it previously was so you of course need to power the unit it takes a five-pin
lemo 0b style connector and they do a variety of different cables which will
allow you to use different power options because it can take anywhere between 10
and 30 volts so it's very flexible on the power front the most common one is
probably this one which is a d tapped style cable and so if you're using your
FS 7 rigged out like this that and that's nice and easy you probably have
DTaP ports and you're probably using batteries like v locks that sort of
thing and so details are really easy for you to do if you're trying to keep it in
a bit more more of a minimal setup though you might need something like
switz on camera batteries that replaces the
Sony Star ones it's a bit cheaper than Sony ones are and it gives you a DTaP
output so powering something like this makes a lot of sense for the Swit ones
if you're interesting those batteries they're in the link to a link to the
marine in the description down below so make sure you check those out they also
do a variety of different cables so they do two pin lemo in case you have that
power option they do a special one to go into the f5 in the f55 straight into the
camera body and then ones to work with things like Steadicam so for pin XLR
things like that so it's really flexible on the power front overall I think these
are really nice little servo controllers if you own a set of Fuji MKS you know
that they're parfocal and they're brilliant for sort of
cinematic style work but because they're part focal you can actually really
easily than for documentary and for live work
and things like that and so having a servo rocker is so so useful and this is
a fantastic little way of doing it but let me know what you think of them
in the comment section down below do you like to use servo rockers or do you
prefer to zoom manually let me know thanks for watching if you want to buy
any of these of course you can get in touch with our sales team or the links
to all the products which I've mentioned here will be in the description down
below thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one