Remote control device for a motion picture camera

A remote control device for a motion picture camera which has a lens and at least one lens focus setting motor for setting a focus distance of the lens and with which at least one distance measurement device for determining a distance measurement signal is associated,

• said remote control device comprising a portable operating unit, wherein the operating unit has:
• a base part,
• a first operating element that is movable relative to the base part into a continuously variable setting position, and
• a second operating element,
• wherein the remote control device has a control device that is configured to determine a manual focus setting value for the lens focus setting motor in dependence on the continuously variable setting position of the first operating element and to output the manual focus setting value in a manual focus operating mode;
• wherein the control device is further configured, in dependence on an actuation of the second operating element of the operating unit, to cause the lens focus setting motor in a focus transition operating mode to set the focus distance in accordance with a sequence of a plurality of different intermediate focus setting values that converge to a second desired value of the focus distance starting from a first desired value of the focus distance, wherein the first desired value or the second desired value of the focus distance corresponds to the distance measurement signal of the distance measurement device;
• and
• wherein the control device is configured to adopt the focus transition operating mode in response to the actuation of the second operating element of the operating unit, wherein the control device is configured to cause the lens focus setting motor in the focus transition operating mode to set the focus distance in accordance with the sequence of a plurality of different intermediate focus setting values in a predetermined course of the transition between the first desired value of the focus distance and the second desired value of the focus distance.

A remote control device for a motion picture camera which has a lens and at least one lens focus setting motor for setting a focus distance of the lens and with which at least one distance measurement device for determining a distance measurement signal is associated,

• said remote control device comprising a portable operating unit, wherein the operating unit has:
• a base part,
• a first operating element that is movable relative to the base part into a continuously variable setting position, and
• a second operating element,
• wherein the remote control device has a control device that is configured to determine a manual focus setting value for the lens focus setting motor in dependence on the continuously variable setting position of the first operating element and to output the manual focus setting value in a manual focus operating mode;
• wherein the control device is further configured, in dependence on an actuation of the second operating element of the operating unit, to cause the lens focus setting motor in a focus transition operating mode to set the focus distance in accordance with a sequence of a plurality of different intermediate focus setting values that converge to a second desired value of the focus distance starting from a first desired value of the focus distance, wherein the first desired value or the second desired value of the focus distance corresponds to the distance measurement signal of the distance measurement device;
• wherein the second operating element is movable relative to the base part of the operating unit between a first control position and a second control position into continuously variable intermediate positions, wherein the control device is configured to determine a respective transition setting value in dependence on the respective intermediate position of the second operating element, wherein the intermediate focus setting values depend on the respective transition setting value;
• and
• wherein the second operating element is linearly movable relative to the base part.