The little footprint of a CCD makes it hard for digital video cameras to emulate the short depth of field of film cameras. You’ll notice depth of field in films when they have one actor close to the cam and you see the second actor over the shoulder; the actors will alternating being in focus because of the short depth of field. here are some examples. To emulate this utilizing a DV cam you have to change the size of the target area.  A smaller image is projected on a remove screen in front of the cam which is then recorded. This job utilizes a remove CD blank for the screen. The CD is turned utilizing an old CD player; otherwise the cam would pick up the grain of the plastic. quite easy, right? I haven’t even discussed that the resulting image is upside down.

[thanks Angstrom]

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