As the camera is the main equipment for shooting film and my role is cameraman, knowing all the controllers on it will help us to a better understand and utilise of this equipment. According to what I have learned from the lesson and my experience as a cameraman in last semester (Ghost in UTS), the ability to manually focus the camera is a critical skill at any level of video production. Professional cameras which we will use in our project usually have a manual focus ring near the front of the lens housing. Consumer-level cameras usually have a small dial (Note: we need to select "manual focus" from the menu).
After we make sure the camera is set to manual focus, we have to zoom in as tight as we can on the subject we wish to focus on, then adjust the focus ring until the picture is sharp and turn the ring clockwise for closer focus, anti-clockwise for more distant focus. After all, zoom out to the required framing, the picture should stay nice and sharp. These basic steps to control the focus on camera will be our first consideration on real filming days.
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