ARRI WCU-4 Integrated Wireless Lens Control System (Optional UMC-4 brain)

Integrated ARRI Wireless Lens Control system dedicated for ARRI Alexa Plus, Alexa XT Plus and Alexa Mini, allowing wireless control of zoom, focus and iris. Requires 15mm or 19mm bar system.  

Note that you can hire the ARRI UMC-4 brain/receiver to make this compatible with Alexa Classic or any other camera system.

The Arri Wireless Lens Control System WLCS - is an easy-to-use remote control system for camera lenses. A compact, modular system that can be expanded from simple zoom control to a complete remote-control system for zoom, focus and iris.  Uses CLM2/3 motors.

An important advantage of the system is the Lens Data Display can instantly show all respective data on a comfortable display e.g. the respective depth of field. Non LDS - lenses can be equipped with the Lens Data Mount to integrate with the system.

The system can only work natively with an ARRI Alexa Plus camera model unless the additional UMC-4 box is requested to make this universally compatible with all cameras.

Integrated ARRI Wireless Lens Control system dedicated for ARRI Alexa Plus, allowing wireless control of zoom, focus and iris. Requires 15mm or 19mm bar system.

Optional UMC-4 brain/receiver option to make this universally compatible with all cameras at no additional charge.

Please read VMI's article: WLCS Systems, All you need to know to explore the question of how to choose between the various systems and to introduce the range of WLCS systems which VMI arguably considers the best in their field and explain why we think that they work very well in given scenarios.

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• Rate:
  £300/day £900/week

• UMC-4 controller for WCU-4 - for universal camera compatibility
  £0/day £0/week

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ARRI Wireless Lens Control Information