![]() It’s a technique used by camera and monitor manufacturers to highlight the areas of an image that are in sharp focus. Unless you’ve got an amazing eye and a massive monitor, gaining pin-sharp focus without some form of digital assistance is practically impossible. So, if he can do it… Focus peaking and the importance of a monitor ![]() Sure, he has a sizeable team now, but for many years, that guy manually focused his a-roll. He uses RED camera bodies, which are only marginally less expensive than my house but are also, resolutely, manual focus. YouTube superstar MKBHD doesn’t have an autofocus camera. Learning from the bestĪ quick point of reference, which I always used to keep in the back of my mind while fiddling with the focus ring. Here’s how to manually focus your vlogs and a-roll sessions. Like me, you might have a camera that needs manually focusing before you hit the ‘record’ button. But you may not have one of those devices. Thankfully, most cameras and smartphones have brilliant autofocus for video these days. But that didn’t stop me from building an audience of over 30,000 after my first year on the platform. Some armchair YouTube commentators helpfully pointed out that I wasn’t quite in focus. Sometimes, that wasn’t the case my face would be as soft as a cushion.ĭid it matter? No. Often, I got it spot on my eyeballs were as pin-sharp as I’d hoped they’d be when the footage was eventually loaded into Final Cut Pro. So, for those first, incredibly important steps into the world of YouTube, I had to manually focus myself. The Sony had a form of autofocus, but it was dreadful. The first 80 videos on my YouTube channel were shot on either the Canon 5D Mark III or the Sony A7S II.
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