Danke Du!

No it wasn't nice, was a bit of a hurry. We even forget to activate the glass 'shaker' on these first shots! (Others Letus users mentioned that too!)

Michael have you still got pics of that? and I believe it was your invention to balance two Xactis on a Merlin, one with wide angle and one without! You take them on your coming trip to A'dam?

Let us know! (eh... Letus know) Wonder or reason why they gave it that name.

A long stick (boom or rope) in between actor and cameraman? I will experiment with that also! Please keep us informed.

a rope between the actor and the camera: what for? i'm not sure to understand your strategy here, can you explain?

what i'm trying to do is the following:

-> I have a 50mm canon lens and it has an autofocus feature. The problem is that when it's mounted on the Letus Mini, there's no way for the lens to get the signals from the cam's DSLR, therefore the autofocus can't work on the lens.

The idea we had is to connect the lens to the DSLR 'as if' the lens was directly connected to the camera. To do that, we need to understand how the connection works and hack it. There would be a simple wire connecting the lens to the DSLR and it would run along the Letus length taped on its side.

If that works, then problem solves: we'd be able to use the DOF adapter with no longer problems caused by current manual focus. Not to mention the ease of use in case of Steadicam mount or Dolly moves.

Let's cross our fingers.

Sounds ideal please keep us informed. The rope trick is a suggestion when you use one distance and ant to keep it.

You have to look for it at Ebay follow up is the Merlin (B&H)