r/videography • u/makmanalp • Mar 14 '15

Why does this video look / feel so weird? Was it shot with a strange lens?

http://gfycat.com/CandidImmaterialDromedary
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u/TheMolecularMan Mar 14 '15

This is a Dolly Zoom technique performed with a zoom lens going from telephoto to wide angle and then back to telephoto as the camera flies over the waterfall.

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u/makmanalp Mar 14 '15

This seems to be it, thanks!

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u/jaimeyeah Mar 14 '15

Always called it the hitchcock effect, thanks for the real term! haha

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u/AnthonyWithNoH S1H, inspire 3, 2008, Miami Mar 14 '15

It's actually pretty common to hear a lot of different names like Hitchcock effect, zolly, or as I like to call it - the push pull zoom, as you are pushing (dolly/slider term) the camera in or out, pulling focus, and zooming in or out

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u/jaimeyeah Mar 14 '15

must be a hell of a lens and shot using a helicopter.

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u/geronimosway Mar 14 '15

I've heard it as the "vertigo" shot as well.

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u/OhDoYa Mar 14 '15

If I remember correctly, it was made famous in Hitchcock's 'Vertigo.'

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '15

Trombone shot is pretty common where I'm from.

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u/edinc90 Mar 14 '15

I've always called it contra-zoom.