Bennett started teaching the staff this week. He began with the basics: f-stops and aperture, shutter speed and angle, ISO and gain. I tune in when I can, since the review of all this stuff is really helpful for me too.
FAST:
- Focus
- Aperture
- Shutter
- Tach[ymeter]
Phuntsok and Lobsang do most of the shooting, so they have an intuitive sense for this stuff, but they’ve never formally learned the technical details. Chemey shoots the least, but his math is excellent. Passang falls somewhere in the middle. Everyone has a lot to learn.
After spending some time last week getting to know the Archive’s Sony EX-3 cameras, Bennett was also able to teach them how to set the back focus. He showed them how to use a focus chart and demonstrated the value of monitoring with an awesome little HD-SDI monitor made by TVLogic.
