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 ...

Actress Rasika Dugal says the most important thing she looks for on set is a skilled focus puller. Speaking about Delhi Crime 3, she explained how technical teamwork often determines performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Can you describe your job in three sentences? My job as a camera assistant (aka focus puller) is threefold, my main job is to keep the subject in sharp focus throughout the shot, then, along with the ...