@Hunter5117 another thank you!

@Hunter5117

another thank you! please keep us updated if there are larger gears available or not.

I just received my Fotga DP500 MkII follow focus unit today. Extremely happy. All aluminum or steel other than the gears. The gearbox tension adjustment works well, loosened off all the way the focus wheel turns very easily with just a bit of backlash (< 1mm) but tighten it up a bit and the wheel becomes very fluid feeling and the backlash virtually disappears.

One feature I really like is that the marking ring index pointer/hard stop can be moved to where you want, not locked at the top of the marker disk. If you are shooting alone with the camera on your shoulder or at head-height, you can rotate the index pointer 90deg to the back of the unit, in line with your eyes. Shooting below waist level, rotate it to the top, always in plain sight. Also has a magnetic marker disk that is cheap and easy to replace.

Ordered mine with the optional quick release rod clamp, still very solid but much faster to install and remove when you have a mattebox or other items on your rig that you can't easily slide off.

All in all, seems like extremely good value vs Lanparte and Tilta at half the price.

One note that I assume is not only for this unit. The gear is relatively small and when using the large diameter lenses the hard stops interfere with full close to infinity focus travel. On my Canon FD 35-105 zoom it come within about 2 degrees of full travel. Not that this is a big issue but I am going to ask if they offer any larger gears. Otherwise would need to remove stops which always presents problem of losing them.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev: Good to know. How much is the Tilta one?

@Vitaliy_Kiselev: I see TrusMT has one under development: http://www.trusmt.com/en/proview.asp?id=113

@RatLabProductions I was so impressed with the build on the Fotga rails I wanted to try the FF too. It looks like it's built just as well.

D|Focus v2 is disappointing.

Non China manufacturers now compete only in studio FF range.
Full studio grade FF with double sides are still rare, only Tilta makes one as I know.

@svart I just ordered one. I'll let you know if they've fixed it.

I really like my original DP500 but I need dual sided gears, like this one. The only real complaint I had on the first version was that the marking ring doesn't erase very well when you use whiteboard markers. I wonder if they fixed that in this version?

They have version without hard stops

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/562/special-deals-matteboxes-hoods-and-follow-focus

Ouch, that a progress within just one year.