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Focusing with a Cinema Camera

Focusing with a Cinema Camera

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Focusing with a Cinema Camera

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So one of the things that's a bit hard with any type of cinema camera is focusing. But you gotta couple of options here that are nice. >> Yeah, we do. And we've said this what maybe a thousand million, bagillion times. >> Practice, practice, practice? >> Well, not that one. >> Focus is hard? >> Not that one either. >> That everything looks good on the back of a camera LCD. >> Yeah. >> These are not precision monitoring devices, right? >> But that one is. >> Yeah, but we have a much bigger screen there which really helps. However, the cinema cameras have actually a couple of really neat features to make manual focusing pretty easy. On this camera, I actually just have a focus button. And because it's a full manual lens that I have on this camera. And I have, this particular camera is the NFT version of the Black Magic cinema camera. It's not an active mount. So it means it doesn't communicate at all with a lens. Even if I had…

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