Response to Pulling Focus

I've had the xl-1 for about three months so I can say a little about it. We have used it on a few jobs and it is one of those camera's you have to get your hands on for a little while. As for the pulling focus, this is one way it can work. Start the shot in manual focus. As your subject moves you can use the Push AF button. As long as the lighting is fair and the subject is some what in the center of the shot, you should be able to keep up with it. I was doing a two shot the other day with poor indoor lighting. I had a girl that was walking across the room from about 10 feet to 3 feet to kiss the other actor. I had the talent hold for just a split second before she bent over to kiss the guy and at that time hit the auto focus For a close up you could not get it any sharper. Will not work every time but be creative. We plan to do a short in a couple of months and have started working with Canon. I have already started doing some testing and hope to have a lot of the problems solved by the time we start to shoot. GenesisDV Rusty

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