From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Using a prime lens
Okay, so Rob, we've got a whole collection of gear here. Let's start. We usually do. Yes. : Yes. Let's start with that prime ingredient for getting shallow depth of field, the Bokeh, the Bokeh, whatever you want to call it. And that is actually a prime lens makes this a lot easier, right? Well, right. I mean you, we talked about when we, you know, did our overview of the subject was that, you know, the one of the distinguishing things about a rack focus is changing the viewers attention, right. And one of the most distinguishing factors of prime lenses is that they have very wider, keep, possibly very wide fixed aperture. And what that allows you to do is create the very nice sort of soft background border that you talked about Rich. And when you combine that with moving the focus plane, you can quickly focus the viewers attention, creating nice smooth and subtle rack focus techniques. Yeah, and what we have here is a collection of prime lenses. And I just want to sort of give you an…
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