DIY DOF (Depth of Field) Adapter.

To those who are not as sad (or passionate, you choose) about the Technological side of film (if you don't bum articles about certain lens compression, shooting with UBER large apertures or would die for a REDROCK adapter) then you MIGHT not know what a DOF 35mm Adapter is (Honestly i dont mean that to sound patronising, in ANYWAY!) 

Well just briefly; in Film* a 'Cinematic' quality is usually achieved by a shallow/short DOF (Depth of Field, amount of subject/distance in focus within frame) allowing for greater control  and Selective Focus. And by 'Film Grain' (or 'Film Noise') which adds the making the film look softer and a bit more 'diffused'. 

*When i say Film, I'm taking about methodology/composition. Of course you cannot just put a 35MM adapter on your Sony HandyCam and make films similar to KUBRICK.

Home video and small diameter lens cameras look cheap and crap due to a large depth of field (everything being in focus) and by being extremely 'sharp'

In order to get a 'Cinematic ' quality you'll need some way of shooting with high quality, large 

Diameter/Aperture lenses. 

Conventionally there is no way of slapping a 'Prime' lens onto a standard video camera like mine (PANASONIC HDC-SD100) so in order to achieve this look we need an adapter.

Bring on the DOF (Depth of Field) Adapter.

Here is my HDC-SD100 with home made DOF adapter and SIGMA 70-300mm Lens. 

No, this is only a working prototype. I couldnt not be used for making any shots at all. 

A few MASSIVE reasons why. Next Blog