Indie4K has a great post up on the benefits of the Birger electronic lens mount for Canon EOS SLR lenses in concert with Red’s Digital Cinema camera.

“…for the price of just a Red 18-50mm zoom, we can get the Birger mount, plus several primes and zooms. For the price of the 18-50mm zoom + the price of the 50-150 zoom, we can buy practically every current-model EOS lens we can ever imagine wanting to shoot with.”

“…the Birger mount can control focus as well as aperture, using the built-in focusing motors of EOS lenses.”

“Birger’s system will be controllable via Bluetooth. Imagine figuring out your focus marks using Red’s “magic focus assistâ€?, and then programing them into a laptop and cueing them at the appropriate times with a couple of key presses. Or imagine a “smartâ€? autofocus system based around range-finding equipment, which could rack focus to track an object through space far better than any human focus puller…”

I believe the Birger mount project started out aimed at 35mm adapter users who wished to use EOS lenses. Now it seems it’s been repurposed to interface with one of the hottest digital cinema cameras on the market. Options are a good thing for filmmakers, and it will be interested to see how this product develops. You can reserve a Birger mount here.