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  • Timelapse Workshop

    Timelapse Workshop

    http://www.forest.zerok.tv/blog/timelapse-workshop/

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  • Camera Test – Kessler Pocket Jib Traveler

    Camera Test – Kessler Pocket Jib Traveler

      The arrival of the Kessler Pocket Jib traveler from across the Atlantic was a moment of excitement at the possibility of a new piece of kit to open up some of the creative cinemagraphic potential of the Forest film – particularly as the land evolves into the moving energy of Spring. Perhaps partially tarnished by the substantial duty that has to be handed over at the point of delivery although the object itself is certainly a product of beauty […]

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  • Using a Focus Shifter

    Using a Focus Shifter

    This lever system from a USA based company http://www.focusshifter.com seems like a great way smoothly pull focus – unlike a few of the other ones I looked at it works with lenses of any diameter – really great for this Nikon 55mm 2.8 MACRO AIS although there didn’t seem to be an immediately obvious way of attaching the guides on this 1960s wonder and working in macro on this rotting tree trunk magnified any juddery focus changes.

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