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“Why would I need a camera dolly test? I’ve shot with this camera so many times before!”
This is something I have heard more frequently than I care to remember—not just from my film students at UCLA, but also from professional shooters who have attended my camera training seminars around the country.
When shooting a project on film, camera dolly tests were a given. They were not something a DP would even have to request. Camera dolly tests were budgeted and scheduled into the preparation period of a movie, even if a DP knew a film stock like the back of their hand. Why bother test them again and again?
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Sevenoak Scaled Camera Dolly SK-DW03 is a sturdy and smooth camera table dolly specially designed for your home videos. It features adjustable aluminum rods, scale marks, rubber wheels, 1/4” screw thread and 3/8” screw hole etc. It allows you to mount your camera directly onto this dolly, or use an articulate arm or ball head for shooting at any angle you want. The adjustable aluminum rods and scale marks allow you to track in a straight line or track around an object, and its rubber wheels enable you to shoot quietly and smoothly.
The answer is that you are not testing the acquisition medium; you are testing the interrelationship of three separate elements: your imaging device, your subject and your targeted look. Knowing your imaging device is only a small part of being able to achieve your desired look. You need to understand how your source imager will interact with your subjects in trying to achieve said look.
In the days of film, several film stocks (some known to you, and some new to your vocabulary) would be tested through several lenses, with several filters, through several lab processes, to see how they reacted when photographing your actors, in hair and make-up, in their costumes, and possibly even on the actual sets of your final shooting environments. You would then sit with a color timer and evaluate which stocks, lenses, filters and lab processes would get you closest to your desired final look. These principles have not disappeared simply because we are transitioning away from film onto digital acquisition. If anything, the interplay has grown exponentially more important, since our list of variables has easily quadrupled.
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