Movie camera gear

[tigerburnie]

Just won a follow focus kit from fotga, with a view to getting more into manual focussing rather than using auto focus. There's a couple of reasons for this, the first and most important is I am seeing more and more instances of wildlife subjects reacting to the infra-red from my lenses when the lens is adjusting the focus automatically, Adders in particular, but also some bird species, vanish the moment you point a lens at them. I have the focus on my dslr set at a single centre point that I usually aim at the eye of the subject.................................and there it was gone, so I now focus away from the head, get a focus and then move to the desired position on the subject, now this works most of the time, but I have lost some important shots due to auto focus. Taking this forward to using the C100 mkii and I notice my ef camera lens do "hunt" when moving the camera, bound to it's keeping in focus, but it is flailing around infra-red light beams potentially causing subjects to scarper not unlike like a light saber from Star Wars, so more manual focus is required and with a follow focus unit I won't be moving my hands/arms about finding the focus ring. I will have the follow focus handle in my hand, one less movement to frighten off skittish animals like Beavers, Otters and birds like Jays when I'm sat in hides.

[tigerburnie]

For those who might contemplate using a digital movie camera or using the function on a dslr or mirrorless, have a look at DaVinci Resolve editing suite, not only is a very comprehensive tool, but there is a version that is free to download and does everything I seem to need and more.