Pmw F5 & F55

Nate Weaver said:
He's an AC. He's supposed to pull focus without looking at a monitor.
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yup!

Liam Hall said:
Yes, I know that. My point, is that an F5 operator wont need an AC to set focus on an elephant's backside if the EVF is as good as Sony claim...
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nope. That's not how it usually works on most film sets. Even with focus assist, peaking, and the sharpest monitor known to mankind, the operator does not typically pull focus. They are busy operating. Doesn't mean operators can't, as they do often on videography gigs... it just means that this is the typical cine scenario, thus we cannot and should not make any assessments or presumptions about the equipment based on the way they work. They are doing it the classicly proven cinema way.
 
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Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
yup!



nope. That's not how it usually works on most film sets. Even with focus assist, peaking, and the sharpest monitor known to mankind, the operator does not typically pull focus. They are busy operating. Doesn't mean operators can't, as they do often on videography gigs... it just means that this is the typical cine scenario, thus we cannot and should not make any assessments or presumptions about the equipment based on the way they work. They are doing it the classicly proven cinema way.
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Exactly correct!

On film sets the operator pans, tilts, and possibly operates handheld. This all happens as the AC's, DIT's, and DP's do the hard work. Very challenging to frame a choreographed subject while being able to go at it again if you screw it up.

Wankers
 
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