From the course: Corporate Event Video: Producing Company Meetings and Presentations

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Cameras: Technical direction

Cameras: Technical direction

From the course: Corporate Event Video: Producing Company Meetings and Presentations

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Cameras: Technical direction

one of my favorite things to do, but this conversation may be a little bit different than you might think. Because most of us are using large sensor cameras nowadays. We're doing that because, from a production standpoint, we get really good control over selective focus, nice shallow depth of field, if we want it, in relatively small spaces. There's a reason that we use these broadcast style cameras in spaces like this. The big reason is, that we get lots of throw, with a relatively small lens size. If you wanted to reach that stage behind me with a super 35 millimeter or a full frame sensor camera system, the lens would be ginormous. So, we want to reach that stage. And we're lighting it, which we're going to be talking about later in the course. So that's not a problem, and we can do that very easily with camera systems like this. They also give us some things that generally we have to build out on a more digital cinema style camera system. We have usually a zoom rocker. We can feed…

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