Video mode!

[Alex]

After playing around with the Polaris, I could not believe it. There is no possibility to shoot video, not even basic functions!
While the camera (Canon R5) is set to Video:

- no possibility to move left/right and up/down
- no possibility to start / stop recording
- no possibility to set focus point

Benro Polaris Team: Please add this function. It is one of my main use cases!

[Sockeye]

And here it is

BUT, quite useless:
- without "tap to focus". This litte focus point in the center does not really help. We need to tap on the screen to focus on the area we tapped on.

- without smooth panning / tilting. With the current "fine adjustment" setting it is too slow. In normal mode, just moving the joysticks marginally produces a somewhat "good" speed, but is not constant, when going higher the movement gets smoother but too fast. In any way it is not reproducible.

It would be perfect to have the "fine adjustment" setting with speed presets. e.g. 1x, 2x 3x 4x together with an accelerate in and out...

I made a little video for demonstration:

[BJN2]

I doubt we'll ever see more than center autofocus camera control in the Polaris app. Since Benro is using an open source library to communicate with their range of camera makes and models, the limitations of that library will limit what can be implemented in the app. HDMI support may provide an alternative to get live view in the app while using camera controls or a separate camera control app via another device. Perhaps with enough pressure, Benro would put some resources into expanding AF controls. Video can't be started at all on my Nikon Z6.

[dskars@online.no]

Hi I am loking forward to use the video mode. I get error message "Shoot failed" when I try start recording in Video mode. I have a Nikon D850. What to do?

[Sockeye]

I am not sure about the Nikon, but I need to set my Canon to "video" first.