Yep. That's why thin DOF adapters are popular with young moviemakers. They can take a small sensor video camera and still get that professional look. I picked up an EnCinema 35 with something else that I was purchasing. It is an adapter that accepts a Canon EOS lens on one end and has a small glass screen at the focal plane of that lens. You put this on the front of the video camera with close focus filters and essentially record that glass screen. The results are pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHwFipV7Po8
The other part of professional TV/movie work is not just thin DOF but the way the focus SNAPS from one point to another (as in the faces of two people in conversation). Here's a neat story on the job of "focus pulling": http://www.npr.org/2014/02/28/283461599/keen-eyes-uncanny-instincts-keep-films-in-sharp-focus More on the intricacies of the job: http://www.theblackandblue.com/pulling-focus/ On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Malcolm Smith wrote: > >> >> I'd be very interested to know how you get on with video Darren. >> >> I've not really had any use of the cameras(s) that have video >> capabilities, as I've had no real interest. However, this morning, a 'phone >> call from friend suggested making a short video on the changes in my area >> over the last 25 years (basically since he left my area), which although he >> mentioned as a joke, it's something I'd like a go at. >> >> As the function is there, I should at least give it a try. Our family was >> not much into home movies; I've got a dozen or so 8mm films from the late >> 60's my father made (not seen since I was a teenager) and two mini Betamax >> video cassettes from a camera which probably had one hour of use in the time >> my parents had it. > > > The first time I tried video on a DSLR I realized something. I was > photographing a musician on my Kx with my 77/1.8, so it was a rather shallow > depth of field. I realized that "home movies", whether super 8, camcorder, > or cell phone have always been done on small sensor systems, which give a > lot of depth of field. Everything I'd ever seen with shallow depth of field > was professional, either movies or TV, so just by having shallow depth of > field my mind associated it with "professional quality". > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
