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Originally Posted by Cherry7
This things come and go. Shallow DOF is popular as with small format cameras the DOF is large. When films were shot on slow filmstocks deep DOF was the fashion...
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Citizen Kane
?deep-focus shots with incredible depth-of field and focus from extreme foreground to extreme background (also found in Toland's earlier work in Dead End (1937), John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940), and Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940)) that emphasize mise-en-scene; also in-camera matte shots
In a few years everyone will be sick of watching shots with half the actors out of focus and it will swing back.
I think the really interesting development is the drop in prices of data recorders. This means that the cheap cameras like the Sony EX1 which records at only 35 Mbps can be used to record at 100 Mbps 4.2.2 using the SDI output.
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One of my favorite deep focus shots was definitely in Citizen Kane when he's seated at the type writer and dood shows in the background. so many great shots in that movie.
But depth DOF stuff is really hard to pull in adult because we mostly do not lock our cameras on tripods. Most of us shoot gonzo style, and that does not really work well with persistent focus or follow focus for that matter.