Hallo to everybody!
I'like to know if this ever happen to you?
I was shooting s16 stock with an Arri sr3 s16, we were recording the video assist on computer (but also on tape), I had the camera on a crane on a scorpio 2 axis remote head with preston remote focus. I was shooting a a take starting a 10 feet from the actress and ending up at 2 feet going sideface and pulling up tod and table shoot with the camera at 90 degrees down.
The lens was a 12mm.
When I saw the footage the comming forward of the crane was completaly out of focus (and I men hard to see what going on)!!!!
At first I thoug that was my mistake (with a 12mm????) but then we started asking ourself why the camera operator the d.o.p the director and everybody else didn't notice such a groose problem on the video control, so we lokeed at the recorded video and everything looked sharp! We started comparing frame stop and we printed them! On the video control I can detect the handle of the window in the background, a balcony outside an the leaves of a tree, in the shooted fotage i completaly losse the handle on the withe of the window frame, and I could not even detect the balconi outside and the leaves of the tree are just a big green something!
It is evident that there was a great amount of difference between the focus on groundglass and on film. Of course I was pulling focus based on distance, i was probably the only one not to look at the video control, but for same strange reason my focus pulling was good on the gglass and not on film allways in the same portion of the shot.
I did check collimation between gglass and film plane and it was ok, the strange thing is that when we were in focus on the film, we were in focus on the gglass too.
Does anybody have an explanetion for this? It has ever happen to you? Please help me understand!
Thanks!
