Sony V1 - Camera Analysis

During this lesson the wondrous technician Ashley, taught 13JPR how to use the camera we have been experimenting with for the past year. Sadly, I was not present as I had university business to attend to in the dark, exiting, cold city that is Leeds, therefore, courtesy of Heidi Mitchell, I have included her annotations of the camera within my blog. Big thanks to Heidi!

However, I was present for Ashley’s workshop on Pull Focus. This was a camera technique I have always wanted to achieve within my work, but never really experimented with it as, honestly, I was too scared. But, thanks to magnificent Ashley we are now all knowledgeable on how to use Pull Focus, here is a step by step guide:

1) Arrange the two subjects you want to bring in and out of focus, one in the foreground, and one in the background.

2) Focus on the subject in the foreground first using the focus ring, make a note of the distance that appears on the screen.

3) Now focus on the subject in the background and make a note of the distance.

4) Now you can pull focus between the two subjects, pulling the focus ring until it hits the distance of the desired object. For example, to focus on the background subject pull the focus ring until it hits 0.6 meters (example of distance), then to pull it back to the foreground subject pull the focus ring until it hits 0.1 meters.