This is the kind of video I personally am most interested in; ones that show the potential problems with a piece of kit. I know all the good stuff it can do already, but I'm far more interested in any issues or problems with the system. For me, knowing those things influences my purchasing decision more than anything else. Thanks for this video!

Cowboy Cam here! Haha thank you guys for covering all of this. This new system is simple yet insanely complex as you start running into quirks. For programming the lens profiles and if things get shifted and throws the calibration off.. the lidar unit most likely has been shifted. That’s what the lidar distance setting is for. If you go in and remeasure and re input the distance, it should fix it. At least that is what I found for my personal unit. Kondorblue and I are working on some rigging solutions as well ;) Another annoying quirk with the HDMI pass through with the DJI monitor is while it does display the lidar image, you don’t get all the touch controls that you do on the Focus Grip. I hope the next gen fixes that. Overall the DJI Lidar stuff, while having some few quirks, has truly been a game changer for me. Comfortably allowing me to use anamorphics on shoots I would have never even attempted to do so.

This is VERY helpful to those of us that are thinking of buying one

Lots of good criticisms to consider 👍

Finally!!!! A review worthy of watching as it actually covers the tool after being used in the field. Reviews like this are why I'm subbed to your channel, keep up the quality content!

I'll wait for the updated one.. Thanks for the honest review.

Great honest "review"! I have no intention of getting the Focus Pro but I still enjoyed this video a lot. Take my like and my view please.

Whoa! Shout out to the Nitecore primes. Almost bought a set a while ago. Absolutely love them

Amazing review. That's how all reviews should be, focused on the limitations of the gear in real world scenarios, not just reading the spec sheet! You just earned a new subscriber.

i use the smallrig rod clamp to mount the lidar just underneath the lens. Remove the cold shoe mount from the lidar and screw the lidar onto the rod clamp. Works perfectly!

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Thanks for this. I've used the motor and hand grip with great success, but have held off on the LIDAR until a review like this came out. Understanding the quirks gave me the reassurance to bring purchase. Looking forward to some AF ability on my Milvus lineup!

Thanks for pointing out these issues!

Without your video I would have plugged the batteries from my DJI RS2 and RS3 Pro in the Dji Focus Pro... A big thank you to you for avoiding me this tragic mistake.

Thank you so much! I was seriously considering this mostly for gimbal use, but i might wait until they add the extra option to not track the persons movement too. Overall, learnt alot of new things no one else is talking about, thanks again

Hello great video. Unfortunately I have a problem. I have my setup as follows: dji RS4 Pro, Lidar Pro, focus motor pro on a Fuji xh2s with an Irix Cine lens on a cage I have calibrated the focus motor. In manual mode the lights on the lidar and motor are permanently red and I can focus with the gimbal wheel. However, when I switch to automatic mode, the lidar lights up green and the motor yellow. Although I have already calibrated. What could be the problem? I look forward to your feedback. Also from the community BR Tim from Germany

I would say it's shocking the amount of crappy connectors that are out there, but it's not. I'm curious about this, but feel it's a luxury in my case. Though, who knows. I've seen other vids complaining about lidar mounting. Makes one wonder how much testing these companies do. Great review!

DJI REALLY need to change a few things for the next version. Whatever needs to happen in order to integrate the “hub” and “brains” all into the sensor unit needs to be sorted. That one unit should support all the functionality and operation of the system, with other parts of the system being solely for control input, and then obviously the motors. They need to switch to LEMO, it’s really that simple, and they need motors with daisy-chain. And the whole thing should be able to power over LEMO too. Pre-marked disks are an easy software thing they should add, as well as a diopter mode. I really wish they’d worked with Tilta on this, jumping off from the Nucleus-M.

anyone know where the creator or all in one combo are in stock in the US?

Great video. There's a little hidden 1/4 20 on the cold shoe mount, just unscrew the cold shoe... I know that this doesn't answer the problem of attaching the actual lidar unit in a lower config but it is very handy for more securely attaching it to the top of a cage or straight into the top of one of the Blackmagic pocket cameras :)

Another problem I run into is the lack of possibilities to adjust te FOV of the lidar camera, specially on longer focal lengths the difference is way to big

Great info .yes ! Transfer focus box ghost onto atomos ninja v that doesnt show in recording!It says the lidar pro can replace lidar rs on ronin rs 3?. If you covered this in this video i will be saving as reference.Great accesories!Thank You

Great video guys!

That was weird hearing Cam and seeing myself 😂 Great work, doing up my long term video soon 🔥🙏🏾

what about 20cm close focus lenses? Lidar detect this short distance?

Great video. Thanks. And I will tell you what i noticed while shooting. when you are in a room full of haze, lidar can't work at medium and far distances. that's what you need to be prepared for

has anything changed since the release of this video? Did DJI push some updates that solve integration with Ronin RS 4 Pro?

Wow for just a second i thought it was a great option and can do a perfect things right away , but seen this info makes me thinking twice before buying it.

Drop that 3D print file please!! Would love a link for me to print it

Quick one, what 90 degree hdmi adapter are you using?

Great review but you didn't address the main issue: you can't buy it anywhere. In Europe is not in stock in any web or shop. Do you know anything about this?

Would be possible to provide stl of cover and rod clamp?

There is a way to have auto focus without auto panning and tilting, you hit the trigger once in the front to turn it off and on

So the RS4 Pro battery is not compatible?? I thought I read yesterday that it was?? Man - I hope I didn’t hurt anything by using it. When I got the system yesterday the shipped batt was dead - so I used the Ronin 4 batt after I thought I read that it would work. Everything powered on correctly??? Wow! That is not cool. There should be very apparent warnings about that!

will it works with Ronin2?

Taylor did in fact let the tracking get me.

I don’t know how you bought it because it’s not available anywhere here in Canada or the US including from DJI so????

Sounds like it's better to use the focus motor with Panasonic cameras and skip the lidar unit..

That battery issue is concerning!

Clearly, I won't EVER trust any youtubers doing "early reviews" of product. I own a Focus Pro that has loads of qwirks and problem, glitches that were never ever mentionned by any of them. The double check and glitch of calibration is a real pain and a software non sense. Some you seems to not have experienced are problem when shooting someone close to lens (2-3 meters) while loads of people are behind. The Lidar just freaks out and can't lock onto the person in front. Focus Pro can't focus on faces only and freaks out when you have someone among cars or people or both. A s for the Battery solution, this shows how much the RS4 Pro is a joke as the RS3 Pro is exactly what the RS4 Pro does. And the retrocompatibility of previous lidar with the RS4 PRO is not properly working either... It feels like a preprod unit. The Lidar is so power hungry that it shows that a new Ronin system with interchable battery without needing to break down the set up is needed without going to an R2. RS2/RS3/RS4 are just little step upgrades without much added to them. A fresh up is needed for bigger Ronin setup than the typical FX3 / G Master configuration without getting a heavy and expensive R2. On the plus side, the hand grip when set up to control Zoom with one motor is freaking great, the haptic feedback change the feel of the wheel to act as a "broadcast like" zoom rocker. It feels million times better than a Tilta Nucleus M.

Better say "sorry about you being in the video" guys hahaha wth

waaaaaaaiiiiit!!!! so if you shoot solo, when you connect the lidar to the RS4, as a solo shooter you can't operate the RS4 anymore? the lidar is the unit that control the ronin? if so, thats just a no no. so you can only use the ronin when you have a focus puller? then you can just hire a focus puller instead of using the lidar. soooooooo as a solo shooter the handheld unit is what you need otherwise the lidar is useless?

There are much, much more issues than this review has, like loosing stored profiles and having to re-calibrate each battery swap when being powered from d-tap or v-mount, to name a rather big one. Wrong readings when using zoom on calibration is another one. It does seem like the demand for this one is huge, but it's a rather under-developed product firmware-wise. Also, the cable clusterfuck reminds me of macbook dongles in 2018. I wish they open the system to use other motors and focus systems with the lidar, but unfortunately DJI is not the company to expect an open system from. It's an Apple of the camera world, where each product will limit you to use their own line-up of products.

Thanx a lot! No one of Chinese never said about these issues ! Thank you !!! You just saved me a couple of thousand dollars!