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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 141542" data-attributes="member: 134">To me, denying yourself the opportunity to catch and cradle the ball is akin to a pool player not measuring angles this his cue, or a golfer not looking at the green before putting. Sure it can be done, but why would you avoid it?I'm a camera assistant for TV and Film. The 1st AC (assistant camera) is responsible for "pulling" focus. What that means is, he is turning a knob that affects the distance of where the lens is focusing. Actor is 10 feet away, the 1st turns the know to 10'. Actor walks away to 20', the 1st must change the focus as they walk, always keeping them tack sharp. The trick is, we do this without actually looking through the eyepiece, as that's where the camera operator is. Prior to digital shoots, you'd see AC's with onboard monitors used as a reference, to see who the camera is actually pointing at. The prevalence of digital cameras though has made for a much tougher job of pulling focus (for reasons I won't go into here), and there are many who now look at a monitor and pull focus staring at that instead of where the actor is actually standing in relation to the distance from the camera.It is a huge debate among old school and new school AC's, but a common thread that can be heard is, so long as the shot is in focus, who cares what method I use to get it? There is certainly a macho bravado that goes with going sans monitor, but I've seen those same people lose the job because of it. That being said, I think people that don't learn how to pull focus the old school way are also doing themselves a great disservice.My point is, you have a tool box. Why limit yourself to using only half the tools? Because you like to make the job hard? I say, don't work hard, work smart. Otherwise why not play with only one hand, or use your feet, or cross your arms so the left is on the right flipper and the right is on the left?BTW...did our podcast by any chance inspire this thread? We had a nice discussion about it there.</blockquote>

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