Week 2-This is what we will cover (or did cover already this week)

This week we talked about several important things.

1. The Bolex viewing system, how it differs from the K-3 viewing system.

2. Exposure time and how it relates to frame rate. We understand that a change in camera speed is a change in exposure.

3. Depth of field is a subjective thing. Hence, the range of acceptable focus.

4. The three things that we need to know to determine depth of field are…

5. Each focal length has its own field of view. We discussed what happens as we go from extremely wide to very long. Think about what happens to your image.

6. A smaller aperture gives us a deeper depth of field, a larger aperture gives us a shallow depth of field.

7. Our field of view narrows with a longer lens, and compresses our image.

8. A longer lens gives us a shallow depth of field, and a wider lens gives us more depth of field.

9. There’s a sequence of things you must do before you sign for your camera, think about what these things are.

10. When loading the Bolex, its important to wind the camera. When you open the camera what should you find inside?

11. The loop former is an important step in loading the camera, whats the second most important step? Think about that.

12. The light meter reads both incident and reflected light. Which of the two is light that falls on the subject?

13. Why is it important to be assured that the meter is “zeroed” out?

14. Only two parts of the tripod should be tightened up a bit more than finger tight, what are they?

15. Why do you need a gray scale, and what does it do?

16. What is 9 P? And why do we need to remember that number and letter?