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Pro aim follow focus for free#
To help support our reporting work, and to continue our ability to provide this content for free to our readers, we receive compensation from the companies that advertise on the Forbes Advisor site. Filming Stop/Eject with a minimal rig.The Forbes Advisor editorial team is independent and objective. With a decent counterweight it will massively improve your handheld shots, and the rest of the bits will come in handy too – just don’t expect to use all of them all of the time. I’d definitely advise having this rig in your arsenal, assuming you can’t afford one of the better quality options. You’ve got to do whatever’s going to get the job done right. Aside from looking impressive, the ease with which you can flag off stray light is brilliant – no more gaffer-taping bits of cardboard to your camera.īut I was surprised to find on Stop/Eject that I was often bypassing the rig altogether and slapping the camera straight on the tripod. I have to say that the most effective parts of the rig are the matte box and sunshades.
I believe Cine City have now released a version two of their follow focus, so perhaps this is an improvement. Result? I had to pull the focus on that master shot by eye.Ĭol got skilled enough by the end of the shoot to compensate for this play, but it still caused us problems from time to time. Shooting at f1.8 on my 20mm Sigma lens for a big wide – such as the master shot of the basement – that single millimetre can represent 20 metres of focal distance. You can turn the focus knob about a millimetre before the focus ring of the lens starts to rotate. Well, no amount of screw tightening has done the job there is still play. On Stop/Eject, Rick Goldsmith operates camera while Colin Smith pulls focus. But I also knew that better quality follow focus units were out of my price range, and that some reviewers reported being able to reduce or remove the play by tightening a screw.
I knew before I bought the rig that many reviewers had complained about the gears having a little play in them. And I’m afraid the verdict here is not good. So the follow focus was the main part of the rig to get used. On Stop/Eject there was no time to have unnecessary accessories getting in our way, so I fitted only the follow focus, adding the matte box and sunshades very occasionally to flag a bit of backlight or use a graduated ND filter. Whenever I had to pick the camera up while still on the tripod, I regretted not fitting the top handle, but I never found time to put it on. (Sadly most jobs I do lack the budget for a focus puller, and I don’t find the follow focus useful when pulling by eye.) To be perfectly honest, I did this mainly to make the camera look bigger and more impressive – particularly important on corporate jobs! Shooting for Astute Graphics. Prior to Stop/Eject, I generally fitted everything bar the follow focus whenever I used the camera.
Last July when I bought my Canon 600D (Rebel T3i) DSLR I also invested in a Proaim shoulder rig from Cine City.
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