From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Setting focus

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- In order for this to work, you need to use the lasers to adjust the sight. Now, we're going to point some lasers at you. Not a bad idea to warn somebody before you put a little red dot on them that you're pointing lasers. - Yep. All right, so we'll push the laser button on the side here. And it's about right, but if we move this forward and backwards gently, you'll see that those lasers move either further apart or closer together. And what you ultimately want to get is for them to be be sort of in a straight up line with each other. - Absolutely, and it has a sort of optimal distance of about five, six feet. You go more than that you're going to find the dots sort of separate or you go too close, they'll separate as well. So, just keep that in mind in the set up that you're in and sort of how much room you have to deal with. The optimal range is about six feet. - And what's happening here is as it moves along the curved track, it's keeping the same distance. So, as the camera gets…

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