From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
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Zooming in
Rich Harrington: You get the lens attached, you have framed up the shot, you have focused by eye, and you think you have it. Robbie Carman: Everything is perfect. Rich: But you probably don't, right? Robbie: No, I mean, focus is one of those things that unless you're paying perfect attention to it and testing it and checking it, your gut instinct about something being in focus is usually going to be wrong. So what we want to talk about today in this episode is a couple of different ways of checking your focus. We're going to begin with sort of a method that I learned way back when, when I was in school in sort of learning how to film and that kind of stuff, was the idea of punching in or zooming into your subject. Now this is a practical technique that can be used for any object, a person, something sitting on a table, or whatever. The basic idea is that you're going to zoom into the object as close as you can get and then adjust your focus to that object, maybe the point of…
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