Camera Assistant 101: How To Set Up a Focus Monitor

How should you effectively set up your focus monitor? What color options should you consider for your peaking levels? 1st AC Derek Edwards guides you through how he begins to set up his focus monitor and why he uses the color green for his peaking levels.
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[@bhornrn]

Medically scientifically speaking, green is the brain’s easiest color to see and process.

[@BfoSHIZnats]

Also use an OLED monitor if you're filming in sub zero temperatures. They have better pixel response times and don't suffer like an LCD's shutters moving slower in the cold causing smearing while you're trying to pull.

[@LaceyFilm]

OLEDs are too dim and soft for focus pulling.

[@antdx316]

Review the DJI Ronin 4D soon? Would be nice to know how it compares to the best.

[@luman_kim]

🔥

[@antdx316]

Around 6:22, if that focus is that narrow with the subject going in and out the shot is done. Depth of field should be determined by how much the subjects are going closer and further.

[@BlackenBurg]

No, Depth of field should be determined by what the story demands. Just get a better focus puller

[@mikamediatechnology]

@@BlackenBurg well if the subject is so close that by every little move it goes out of focus u could consider to close the aputure a bit to help the focus puller because it doesnt really affect the look of the picture because the background will still have a nice bokeh.

[@benugdsen75]

That monitor goes to eleven. 😂🎉

[@HalloweenTelevision]

Works until they start to move too much or the camera starts to move and the motion blur at 1/48 shutter speed causes the peaking to turn off for a second and suddenly you are blind to where the focus is and you think you went soft so you try to correct it and Bam, you buzzed.

[@rohithkumar2086]

Can anyone answer this?
1. FOCUS LATITUDE is what - range of area that focuses on a subject @ physical objects
2. DOF is dependent on Focus Latitude?
3. Coming from photography background,
If sensitibity is 1 to 5, we get less sharpness. if its 7 to 15 we get more sharpness.
But what about T stop? how this affects the Focus Latitude?