When you watch a movie and see those perfect focus switches or zooms, the chances are you’re not seeing the result of the cameraman or focus operator manually moving the lens controls. Instead, they ...

There’s almost nothing you can’t build with the right set of Lego parts. [Rigjob] built up a Lego-based wireless remote follow-focus system that’ll give professional systems a run for their money. Now ...

Essentially just a steel circular spring with a handle, it simply grips the focus ring's finger grooves, allowing the ring to be turned by raising or lowering the handle. This does introduce a "human ...

Replay: Imagine you're a focus puller who finds yourself focus pulling on a feature using a large sensor camera with a sub f/1 lens. And then you wake up and find that the nightmare is real. It’s more ...

Time now to Roll Credits! This is our quest to find out about all those kooky-sounding jobs in the film industry, that you see in the end credits of movies. Last week we went to the workshop of a Key ...

Guillaume Couche, a Masters student at the Royal College of Art in London with a background in mechanical engineering, has created a prototype for what he calls “Show-Focus.” Designed to facilitate ...