From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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How to set focus before recording
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
How to set focus before recording
Robbie Carman: Okay, so Rich, we basically said that using the back of a camera not the greatest for getting critical focus. Richard Harrington: Nope. Robbie Carman: We might often want to pipe the signal out to say an electronic viewfinder or an external monitor, or maybe use an attached loop, but often times you know we might not have those available to us and we still need to check focus on the back of the camera using the camera LCD. And there is a tried-and-true method for sort of setting focus before we actually start shooting. Richard Harrington: Yeah, and what it's really called is take a picture. You put your camera into auto-focus mode if you're working with a lens that supports that and then you can just hold down the plunger and let it sort of find the exposure, and as you see there, it locked. It went from red to green. Robbie Carman: Right, and on your camera that little box there represents the area that it's looking at to try to focus and we can move that around the…
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