What's that movie trick where two actors standing at different distances are in focus at the same time? I believe it's a physical lense they put on the camera. Thanks.
What's that movie trick where two actors standing at different distances are in focus at the same time...
Kevin Russell
Evan Lee
Provide an example
Parker Carter
OP may be referring to Bigger Toretto Theory.
Sebastian Ortiz
I cant provide an example because I can't think of the term. 1 actor has his back to the camera and he's in focus, the other actor is on the other side of the room and he's also in focus. The space between them is blurry.
Ayden Morales
Repo Man has a scene with this and yes the lens has two sides a left and a right and that's how they do it
Jonathan Johnson
That's cool but what I'm looking for is the term itself. Impossible to Google and I want to learn more about it.
Michael Lopez
How do you not know what a DIOPTER is?
Jason Hughes
You mean a SPLIT diopter
Leo Green
I know exactly what you're talking about OP. I'm pretty sure there was a shot like that in Midsommar and it really threw me off, I couldn't figure out how they did it. I'm also interested in the name of this shot
Evan Collins
telephoto lens
Henry Watson
Hero
Jace Carter
Paris Texas cinematographer Robby Muller used a sort of double lens trick, here, to get both actor in mirror and outside in focus
Luke Gutierrez
split photo lense, used in practically all of All The President's Men and much of Breaker Morant
Christopher Perez
Just called split focus. Can achieve with a certain lense, or a technique card lense whacking, where you hold the lens out in front of the camera with a tiny gap between them that let's light in and can be used for trippy effects.
Parker Williams
That sounds like it.
Note the blur along the bottom of the mirror
Cooper Brooks
This is so cool.
Jackson Evans
There was a shot using a split diopter in Reservoir Dogs, that was where I first saw it. It's a physical lens that clamps on to the front of the camera on a little arm, a few inches in front of the main lens.
Nicholas Young
based thread, more like this
Anthony Ward
>Robbie Muller
he did Repo Man too, great work, he also did To Live and Die in LA
Lucas Perry
Stand By Me. The scene where the kids nearly were hit by the train.
Leo Gutierrez
One of the best. Sorely missed.
Jayden James
Man I never noticed that. Looks like shit.
Tyler Adams
>You mean a SPLIT diopter
Op here, thanks man.
Benjamin Diaz
Crazy to have a topic that isn't "movies for this feel" and >Sneed
Michael Butler
This one doesn't seem to have the blur in the middle.
Parker James
I remember the old DVD special features said that normally directors would try to hide the blur line with a door frame or a tree or some other naturally occurring vertical object, but Tarantino didn't because he was such an incredibly original irrepressible maverick or some shit.
Aiden Campbell
see
Anthony Smith
Same movie and it's obvious here
David Cox
split dioptre
Daniel Davis
spilt deptior
Luis Harris
Yeah just saw that shot in article about split diopters and just made me wonder why I'm surprised such a pseud like Tarantino would fuck up such a simple shot