Follow Focus Tips for Mirrorless Users
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- A follow focus is an invaluable tool for easily pulling focus, even if you're not working on a blockbuster production. However, using one with a modern mirrorless hybrid camera, or rather modern mirrorless lenses, can be a bit of a handful.
In this video we'll look at the 3 different types of lenses you'll some across these days and how to configure your camera to work best with them and a follow focus.
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00:00 Intro
01:08 Follow Focus Features
05:32 Lens Types
06:12 Directly Coupled Lenses (MF Lenses)
07:28 Semi Directly Coupled Lenses (SLR Full-Time Manual AF Lenses)
11:04 Electronically Coupled Lenses (Mirrorless AF lenses)
Very informative video! I learned a lot.
Great advise about the Retract Lens setting, On Canon R5 it does it with all lenses! When your camera is on a tripod, focused on something, then you switch off the camera to change battery, and after turning it on again, the focus is gone!! Now, no more, thanks to your video! Thank you!
I was wondering what this setting does I bought 100 mm macro and I took it off the camera and it started rattling a little bit. I was wondering if I needed to put on that setting.
No, what you're hearing with the 100mm macro is the floating image stabilization elements moving.
For whatever reason, Canon doesn't lock the IS group in place when their lenses are powered off. This isn't new, and it's not specific to that lens either. They've been doing it that way for close to 20 years at this point. And no, it doesn't seem to have any adverse impact on the lens's or negative impacts when transporting it.
@@PointsInFocus wow that is really interesting because my 24th to 70 2.8 doesn't really have noticeable wobbling sound. I guess I won't worry then lol
Super obvious statement, different lenses are different....
Placement of the stabilizer elements in the lens, the size and mass of the stabilizing group, the type of IS system and how much that group has to move will all affect how loud they will be when they're moving.
In any event, the retract lens setting only affects the focusing elements, not the IS elements, so it wouldn't have any effect anyway.
@@PointsInFocus No I totally understand, I was just stating that. I did look it up about the 100 mm macro and I heard a few people on Reddit posting thinking they broke their lens. Lol
I saw an interesting video on focus pullers in the movie industry. Sometimes called a camera assistant you have the camera operator and sitting side on is the focus puller with his own monitor.
The example I saw was two actors walking down a corridor towards the camera and the focus puller keeps them in focus.
I don’t record videos so haven’t contemplated if auto focus works properly if the subject is walking or running towards the camera such as an animal or child.
AF systems can absolutely handle something like that. And at a fundamental technical level can do so better than a person - computers are much better than we are at measuring things and doing the associated math quickly. And as we get more compute power in camera, the more capable the camera's can be on their own. However, at the same time AF system is just fancy measurement in a feedback loop. It lacks broader knowledge of the scene and what the actors in it are going to do.
That said, this isn't a one size fits all situation and there's good reasons for doing things different ways in different situations.
As a solo shooter, I want as much automation and intelligence in my camera as possible. However, I'm not playing with the same kind of stakes where a messed up take literally costs 5, 6 or 7 figures when you look at the costs of everyone on set. When the stakes are that high, having a skilled person focused only on composition and another focused on on focus is potentially more reliable than having one person trying to do everything (even with computer assistance). Both of which know how the scene is supposed to play out, where the actors are supposed to move and when, and so on, makes a lot of sense.
@@PointsInFocus Thank you for the reply.
I got a flash trigger from godox to review and I dropped one of my flashes in the water. So now I have one on camera flash and an assortment of video lights. I think I may need to get a high power strobe for outdoors. Any suggestions?
Sorry, can't help you there, I almost never shoot with a flash anymore, and haven't looked at the market since the Canon 600Ex-Rt (the first version) was new, so it's been over a decade since I've been in that market.
Hey, I’m having this problem idk if you can help me. But every time I take a photo with my R5 and go look at the image it will blink black in the bright spots of the image. Do you know how to take that setting off ?
That's the highlight clipping warning, it indicates that those areas of the photo are clipping (they're pure white, and there's no recoverable data in them).
To turn it off, head to the Play5 menu and disable the "Highlight Alert" setting.
@@PointsInFocus Thank you so much!!!!