Soft Screen DOF Trick
- Thread starter jaket
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I don't know... it looks too much like a screen of some kind to me. No falloff, no bokeh. It would probably work better if there were more distance between the subject and the screen, maybe if it were a little less intense. But it is interesting, I'd never really thought about that. And it doesn't look bad, just not a direct emulation of shallow DOF. I like the concept.
jaket
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I agree, I had a couple of people tell me it looked like he was on a green screen, The major give away is the contrast level between the person infront of the screen and the stuff behind the screen, everything looks a little milky, The lack of falloff doesn't concern me so much, and for $25 I can't complain.
jaket
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I agree, I bought the screen from Home Depot and returned it the next day, I wanted to try it out after reading some old posts about this subject.
Honestly I have owned 2 different Lens adapters, a Letus and a Brevis. I like the look you can get with them, but after shooting a 40 min film for a local director, where we did not use the adapter for time constraint reasons, I was shocked how much I liked the native lens on my camera. I look at the adapter more as a tool opposed to a cure all. I try to find ways around using a lens adapter whenever possible.
Right now one of the easiest ways to spot a hobbiest or an ameture is to look for over use of a lens adapter, it's funny to talk to people who have just started using a lens adapter and they show you how "awesome" it is that they can focus on someones nose and the ears are out of focus. Of course there is a time and a place for those kind of shots, but when everyone who picks up a 35mm lens adapter is opening their lens all the way and trying to have Shallow DOF on every shot, it frankly get's quite anoying to watch many short films.
This wasn't going to be such a long post, but I guess I had more to say than originally intended.
Honestly I have owned 2 different Lens adapters, a Letus and a Brevis. I like the look you can get with them, but after shooting a 40 min film for a local director, where we did not use the adapter for time constraint reasons, I was shocked how much I liked the native lens on my camera. I look at the adapter more as a tool opposed to a cure all. I try to find ways around using a lens adapter whenever possible.
Right now one of the easiest ways to spot a hobbiest or an ameture is to look for over use of a lens adapter, it's funny to talk to people who have just started using a lens adapter and they show you how "awesome" it is that they can focus on someones nose and the ears are out of focus. Of course there is a time and a place for those kind of shots, but when everyone who picks up a 35mm lens adapter is opening their lens all the way and trying to have Shallow DOF on every shot, it frankly get's quite anoying to watch many short films.
This wasn't going to be such a long post, but I guess I had more to say than originally intended.
Derkoi
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That was kinda pointless if you dislike shallow depth of field.
jaket
Well-known member
On the contrary, I said I like the look you can get, but I do dislike the overuse or misuse of Shallow DOF. And even as I type this I realize that many things are subjective in the world of art and movies, and this is just one of my pet peeves and personal preference.
Spartacus
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Don´t ask how I digged up this old threat, but I remember there was a commercial out-of-focus screen available a couple of years ago, that did exactly this - anyone know what I´m talking about?
Maybe they have gotten cheaper, now that REAL DoF has become that much cheaper with VDSLRs...
Maybe they have gotten cheaper, now that REAL DoF has become that much cheaper with VDSLRs...
Not too bad looking. I used an HF S20 and got a shallow depth of field on these shots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEjr9NRs8C4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEjr9NRs8C4