DJI Focus Pro LiDAR

Limitations that no youtube reviews speak of.

Overall I want to say it works like a charm, if the camera and lens flange are calibrated and your main goal is shooting people, especially faces. It does glitch sometimes, but 90% of the time it works much better than an average 1AC (non A-list guy) does. The issues are mostly connected with the user-friendly, or say - non user friendly UI and UX. First off, the maximum distance one can set the lidar from sensor plane is 300mm, or 30cm. Ideally, you want to place the lidar as close to the front of the lens, as close to the optical axis as possible. But you can't do so because of this UI limitation - on such lenses as Atlas Orion, Cooke 2x Anamorphic, Hawk V-Lite, Arri Allura 18-80, Fujinon 18-90, Red Pro Zoom 18-85 etc. They all are around 25-40cm themself, which means you can place the lidar just shy before the mattebox, which makes the lidar placement too high or too low. I could understand if one could adjust the angle using magic arm, but the lidar mounting isn't capable to be used with magic arms, at least not so easy. Second, the supplied cables are short, and the port placement is... weird. The lidar ports are located on the right side, but the handgrip is supplied as a left handgrip. Left one makes sense totally for bigger setups, but the already short cable has to be bent several times to stick from pro handrip to the lidar, making usable length even shorter (it's a 30cm cable). One can use usb-c extension cables, which is silly, because DJI doesn't make, produce or sell a longer compatible cable. Nato adapter from the rosette-style adjustment can't be removed, at least not designed to do so. Which means you're stuck with nato rails, and can't adapt to the handgrips or shoulder mounts without a hassle. Overall, the main issue is - short cables (can be resolved) and limited UI on the pro grip to set a bigger distance from sensor (also obviously can be resolved). I really wish DJI would study the potential customer better next time, because this thing is a beast, but the rigging and other user-side things are made horrible, limiting everyone to only one use-case scenario, whereas no other accessories exist. Please, add a proper mounting point to the lidar - like 1/4 thread with arri locating pins, like you somewhy have them on the pro grip.