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Proper focus with a loupe

Proper focus with a loupe

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Proper focus with a loupe

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Rich Harrington: All right Rob! So you and I both know the dangers of soft focus. You see this all the time as professional colorist, people get pretty disappointed, right? Robbie Carman: Yeah. And as much as I love these cameras, they are responsible not 100%. Rich Harrington: You should love them a lot. They make lots of work for you. Robbie Carman: This is true! They are responsible for the proliferation of soft focus. Now of course there is more to do with soft focus than just monitoring and we'll talk about loupes here in a second, things like shallow depth-of-field and the lenses and that kind of stuff. But I am seeing a lot more out of focus footage. Again, we'll say this probably for the fourth or fifth time is that everything looks good on the back of the camera LCD, and because when you're not being critical about the focus, guess what? Little differences. That ever so slight softness tends to creep into the image. Rich Harrington: Well, what I like to recommend is make sure…

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