From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Using a macro lens
- On the camera body here, Kevin, we've attached a macro lens. A macro lens is a specialty lens for certain situations. When might you choose to use one? - Macro lenses allow you to focus on things that are very small at very close distances to the front of the glass, which is something you can't do with a normal lens. - Yeah. We can get really close here. And so, in fact, if we just walk the camera up, right onto our subject, this is a 60-millimeter lens, and we'll just turn that in and sort of frame up the shot. We want to shoot across the bridge of the guitar. And feel free to manually tweak a little bit, but we can go down, in this case, to an aperture on this lens of 3.2. Let's just move that focus point, and I'll engage that for an autofocus, let it set. There we go. On the bridge. That's nice shallow depth of field. We've got the front of the guitar so now the bridge is in focus and everything out of the guitar has fallen out of focus. Now, that was 3.2. You might not shoot a…
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