Kit Adds Clever Movie-Making Follow-Focus Functions to Your DSLR

The DSLR Follow Focus kit is a simple, lightweight, cheap and downright ingenious way to add pro follow focussing and racking to your movie-making setup. It costs just $60, and fits into a pocket. Here's how it works.

First up is the focus lever. This is a sprung loop of steel with two handles. Squeeze these handles and the loop expands. Slip it over your lens, let go and it clamps into position, offering a lever to more accurately turn the focusing ring.

Next, clip the little pointed marker onto this ring, and then loop the included Velcro strap around the lens, just behind the focus ring. Focus on your first subject and stick a little metal marker onto this strap. Do the same for your other focus points and you're ready to shoot. The markers let you quickly snap your lens to focus on the preset points.

You could combine two together, racking the zoom whilst moving the camera whilst following focus for that great Alfred Hitchcock-style OMFG effect (I'm pretty sure that's what Hitchcock actually called it).

The size and ease-of-use here are the clear winners. I'm sure big, locking follow-focus rigs are more accurate time after time, but they also turn your camera setup into some thing the size of a cinderblock.

Available now.

DSLR Follow Focus product page [DSLR Solutions via PetaPixel]

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