4 TIPS for Filming Handheld on Blackmagic 6K (or 4K) 

Really appreciate it that! Thanks for watching, glad it helped!

I totally agree. my set up is the flycam red king. I pull focus and then keep the same distance. I use focus peaking a lot.

@@RileFire I recently shot a wedding reception using the flycam flowline and spring arm, hanging the smallrig crane 3s ring of it. Attaching the nucleus nano wheel to the ring and the monitor towards the bottom of the ring worked well to pull dynamic focus. Only thing I wasnt happy with was the residual spring from walking and that I could not seamlessly take the camera between low/medium/high. I went for the digitalfoto thanos pro X for that reason, and because I like to put the camera fairly rigged out on the gimbal and then things get… heavy. Not finnished that build yet, but I can see how mounting the monitor and operating the focus will be pain point. I might end up designing my own handle/controller to go on the yoke.

thanks for watching! hope it was helpful!

Most of my wedding films are shot handheld! and switch between that and a Fly cam red king. Been doing that for years! Izandlivfilms.com

youre welcome!

Ain’t nothing wrong with it! lOL

Hi! not sure what you mean by the optics, but I use a canon 17-40mm f4 lens with a Metabones Cine lock adapter, not stabilized.

@@RileFire Thanks!!!!

Nope, it will not.

Yea it dosnt get rid of the shake if you render at 24fps. Try to stay steady in camera, especially if you’re not gonna slow it down later in post.

No itll actually make it choppier. If youre at 60fps 180 degree shutter 1/120th of a second instead of 1/48th at 24fps the frames you render out will have no motion blur and actually be worse

Normally I’d pick a faster lens, but with the meta bones cine on the BM4k my 17-40mm becomes like a 20-48mm (forgive my math lol) but the adapter also brings my iris down to F2.6 which is perfect for me Originally got that lens for real estate photos, but worked really well on my BM, still use it to this day

It’s by small rig

I would say the majority of the work on my channel is handheld, so there are definitely some shots that are normal speed and handheld. Same principles apply, three points of contact, a good weight on the camera, and moving as one. In PR pro I stabilize a little bit too