If you’ve watched TV shows or movies, you’ll probably recognize how in certain scenes, the camera’s focus can sometimes shift between two characters at the same table depending on who’s talking or whose reaction they’re trying to get. Or how when a character walks out of the room and the focus shifts to their phone on the table that they forgot, and so on.
While focus can be adjusted manually by hand, this can sometimes result in camera shake, which is why DJI has launched a new accessory called the DJI Focus. This is is a combination of two devices: the peripheral that you attach to your camera’s lens that will make the adjustments, and the remote control with a dial that you can use to control it wirelessly.
The device, despite its name, won’t only allow users to adjust the camera’s focus, but its aperture as well. DJI points out how it can be used with some of their newer drones in which aperture and focus can be adjusted remotely even when the drone is mid-flight, thus opening up the possibilities of new kinds of footage that drones can capture in the sky.
Unfortunately the Focus does not come cheap. It is priced at $1,999 so chances are it is aimed more at professionals rather than the average hobbyist, but if you think that this could revolutionize your filmmaking, then head on over to DJI’s website to place your order.