KrillianRed Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Just wanted to know; did a search on Google and found very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted May 12, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 12, 2007 I haven't heard that term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Mulder Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Maybe its yet another term for the vertgo/dolly zoom ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted May 12, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 12, 2007 It's a film-scholar term for hiding a zoom in a camera move. I learned it while trying to correct a professor who confused "changing focal length" and "focusing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Mulder Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 I learned it while trying to correct a professor who confused "changing focal length" and "focusing". Ah ok - 'nested zoom' I sorta get that but 'lens morph' ? A professor confused a zoom with a focus ? eh ! ?? I've been away from uni for a while - dropped out of both Engineering (mechanical+electrical for 2.25 years) and Architecture (3.5 years) due to various illnesses and work opportunities - or is it various work and illness opportunities .. not so sure anymore. But I'm thinking of going back to Architecture as the engineering to a certain extent can be learned by oneself - and a BArch would help in many ways with a career in production design (with an integrated technical aspect in mind) But honestly sometimes I think university can stick it up its ass with its trumped up terminology and film speak ... Its just plain old marketing - make it arcane enough to maintain an aura of the elite - self important ^&%# Mind you "lens morph" is pretty tame compared to most of the stuff I'm confronted with... sheesh - cant wait to go back! yeehaw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted May 13, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 13, 2007 Ah ok - 'nested zoom' I sorta get that but 'lens morph' ? I have no clue about lens morph. I guess I could see that for a vertigo move since it does make the space "morph" in a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Luke Prendergast Posted May 13, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 13, 2007 I've always understood a nested zoom to be multiple zoom shots in a seamless cut, to make a longer range zoom shot than the lens is capable of, ie., zoom wide to narrow, move camera closer, zoom wide to narrow, cut together as one long zoom in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted May 13, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 13, 2007 I've always understood a nested zoom to be multiple zoom shots in a seamless cut, to make a longer range zoom shot than the lens is capable of, ie., zoom wide to narrow, move camera closer, zoom wide to narrow, cut together as one long zoom in. That doesn't work, though. Every one of those cuts would have a wierd angle of view and perspective shift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Joyce Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 That doesn't work, though. Every one of those cuts would have a wierd angle of view and perspective shift. Perhaps that's why they threw in the word morph. Because someone thought it looked like some weird morph was going on in there :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted May 13, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted May 13, 2007 Perhaps that's why they threw in the word morph. Because someone thought it looked like some weird morph was going on in there :P Who knows. I've never understood why film scholars can't use the same terms as filmmakers. Surely if we can describe something well enough to do it, it's good enough to use when you talk about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Vincent Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Those who can, DO Those who can't, TEACH :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Regan Posted August 19, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted August 19, 2007 Makes me think of the artificial zooms in 300, where they used several cameras of multiple focal lengths, taken from the same angle on a shot, and then combined these in post to achieve a zoom. I think in the article they actually used the word morph. Who knows perhaps its related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling Silva Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Those who can, DO Those who can't, TEACH :blink: "Those who can't teach, teach gym." -Jack Black School of Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Anthony Vale Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 "Those who can't teach, teach gym."-Jack Black School of Rock Who was quoting Woody Allen in 'Annie Hall'. Even then I suspect it's an older aphorism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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