Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] focusing movies WAS focusing Minox
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:27:52 -0500

Johnny Deadman jotted down the following:

> In Tarantino's movies, where he was aping 50 million dollar movies on a tiny
> budget you can see lots of focus errors (pulp fiction in particular) where
> he was too ambitious for the schedule and the crew but actually who cares?

I must have watched Pulp Fiction 10 times, and I never noticed any focussing
errors.  Then again, if I'm aware of things like focussing errors, the
bokeh, microphones jutting into the scene, or the seat under my arse, then
the film has failed to capture my attention and move me into the world it's
creating.

M.

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