I use a sony dv camera and having trouble with my manual focus. I'm trying to make it so a subject relatively close to the foreground is out of focus and something futher back is in focus. For example two people talking. But for my camera to get things out of focus the two objects have to be very far apart.
To get something out of focus in the foreground I set the focus bar as far foreground as it can go but the object has to be like 2cm away from the lense for it to be out of focus.
How can I do this, or how do professional films do this
Rob - UK
Rob - UK
All I can think of is a split filter or if you shoot each one seperately then in post production you can splice them together.
is this the sort of effect used in the film 'the last castle'
The only thing that would get you desirable results is a 35mm adapter.
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The way professionals do this is by using a much better lens than the
one on your DV camera.
One option for a DV camera with a fixed lens is to move the camera far
away from the subject and zoom in. This will give you the shallow depth
of field you're looking for.
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