Replay: Imagine you're a focus puller who finds yourself focus pulling on a feature using a large sensor camera with a sub f/1 lens. And then you wake up and find that the nightmare is real. It’s more ...

Tragedy struck the set of the popular Indian television show 'Anupamaa' when a 32-year-old focus puller, Anil Mandal, died from electrocution. The incident occurred during filming on November 14th.

When you watch a movie and see those perfect focus switches or zooms, the chances are you’re not seeing the result of the cameraman or focus operator manually moving the lens controls. Instead, they ...

There’s almost nothing you can’t build with the right set of Lego parts. [Rigjob] built up a Lego-based wireless remote follow-focus system that’ll give professional systems a run for their money. Now ...

Guillaume Couche, a Masters student at the Royal College of Art in London with a background in mechanical engineering, has created a prototype for what he calls “Show-Focus.” Designed to facilitate ...

Review: The CineRangerFinder was clearly a very 'in demand' piece of kit judging by its crowdfunding success. Does the final product measure up? (See what we did there?!) Of all the electronic ...

Focus puller Anil Mandal tragically died on the set of the television show Anupamaa due to electrocution. The production team has announced a compensation of ₹10 lakh for his family. Mandal was ...

"One of the great artists of the film is the focus puller." Time for a lesson in filmmaking. As the introduction for this video explains, "moviegoers see focus racks all the time" but "they probably ...