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Male 1:When critical focus is in play, there's lots of different pieces that you might need to integrate into your kit and into your technique. But one of my favorite techniques for getting critical focus, Rich, is actually probably the most simple. And that's simply zooming in on the sensor so I get a one to one pixel display back here on my LCD or back out to my external monitor. Rich: Now if you've used professional video lenses, you're kind of used to zooming in the lens, setting focus and zooming back out Male 1: Right. Rich: But that doesn't really work on DSR lenses right? Male 1: Right and so a lot of cameras are going to have a zoom function, again what this allows you to do. Is sort of crop in to the sensor, so you're going to get a much, well, more zoomed in view, a more one to one pixel view, and that's going to help you set critical focus. Let me show you what I mean. So here on the shot, we have it sort of set normally, right, it's kind of a medium close up. But I want…

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