James Halterman
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Awesome, thanks for the response! That’s great news, considering I just read Bob Zelin’s article about building a broadcast studio. In that article, he mentions building his set-up with BMD Studio cameras that don’t have internal recording capabilities (at least from what I understand).
Knowing this means the difference between saving and spending upwards of $4,000 on unnecessary equipment, so thank you once again.
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That’s all well and good, but this guy wasn’t even asking about dealing with a cinema camera — just a basic XF100 camcorder. I use 3-4 of these in multi-cam productions all the time. Each cam op is using them handheld to record concerts…i.e. very dynamic shooting that requires extensive zooms for close-ups and focus pulling.
For a Canon cinema camera, yeah, I can see the need for an accurate focus pull. But with those cameras you also get the luxury of lens selection and the preciseness that only comes with a controlled, multi-take, (usually) single-camera production environment. I mean, I wouldn’t dare use a C-100 or a C-300 in my case because it’s so above my budget for one, but also above my needs as a run-and-gun videographer.
But now we’re entering a completely different topic; I just think it’s weird that someone would actually consider needing a focus puller for a 3 lb. entry level camera haha. BE the focus puller…envision it in your mind. You can do it!
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Why wouldn’t you just pull focus yourself? It’s not a beast of a camera, all you have to do is grab the focus ring and turn it to the right…presto!
TL;DR never use autofocus