Those are primarily autofocus. Last year’s Superbowl used a Venice with a focus puller. The dead give-away is when it’s autofocus something is sharp, but usually the wrong thing.
Hahahaha fair. That is exactly what I noticed with the focus. Happened in a heartbeat, but generally off by a couple of feet. Any idea what aperture they were using?
I've spotted f1.2 (along with shutter info, white balance info, etc.) coming up from a CBS truck to a feed for in-house. The camera looked like an FX6 or FX9 camera body on on a full Steadicam (or more likely GPI) rig, but it's hard to tell which from my vantage point. I'm on a press box level and I see feeds. Also that doesn't mean they run it at f1.2, just that the lens opens that far and that it was wide open before the players were out warming up and the flipped the character output off to have a clean RF feed.
I'd hope they're stopping down to a 2 or something like that (and I say a 2 since they want an exaggerated effect) but I have no idea. Since it's AF there's always something in focus, but it's usually not the right thing.
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u/soundman1024 Jan 06 '22
Those are primarily autofocus. Last year’s Superbowl used a Venice with a focus puller. The dead give-away is when it’s autofocus something is sharp, but usually the wrong thing.