Ryan Elder
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Oh I thought you said you haven’t used the follow focus before in one of your previous posts.
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Oh sorry for the confusion. Basically my question is, is which type of follow focus is better, the one that controls the electronic focus in the camera, or the one that actually turns the lens ring? I read mixed opinions on both, so is there actually one that is better over the other?
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Sorry about that. Sometimes I think of things to add to my replies later, but this site will not allow me to edit my replies.
You said that “if your tools can’t do it better, and you can’t afford better tools, that I will have to think outside the box”.
But I CAN afford better tools, I was just asking which type of focusing tool is the better one. I didn’t say I couldn’t afford it though. I totally can, which is why I was asking.
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What’s so wrong about wanting to advance and not do the same thing over and over?
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The last shoot I did the actors were in one place the whole time and I would like more movement to tell the story.
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Well I’m tired of acting standing in one place the whole time, as it gets boring. They should move around once in a while to do something different.
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The last shoot for a short film I did, went so much better in my opinion, cause the gimbal was able to move along with the actor for longer amounts of time, and I didn’t have to do a lot more shot sets up in comparison, if I went with static shots.
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Oh I was just asking what the best type of focusing system would be for a gimbal, I am not dead set on it, I would say. I actually think that a gimbal would make the shoots easier, because it requires less shot set ups and less shoot time, if I can move from one point to another, rather than having to cut, and do a new set up.
Like let’s say I have a seen of two people walking down the street and talking for like say… three minutes. With a gimbal you can nail it all in one shot, and do a few takes cause I am moving with them.
If the camera was static, then the two people would walk in out of frame for several shots, and I would have to keep cutting to new shots, and that could be like five more shot set ups compared to a gimbal.
So things like a gimbal can actually make a shoot easier and more efficient and that is what I am aiming for.
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As for the recommendation to keep people the same distance from the camera all the time, I can’t do that in every type of scene shoot though. Some shots actually call for an actor to change distance, and it would actually complicate some shots more, if I were to keep them at the same distance the whole time.
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I also like to not have everything in focus as I too feel it looks more cinematic.
The most trouble I have is when I want to do a push in to the face on an actor. I want to shoot those on 85mm lenses so the faces don’t have barrel distortion during the push in. The 85mm looks best for close ups anyway. But when the gimbal operator does the push in, the autofocus, cannot pull focus in time, and is late in responding.