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[Michael Crawford]

I don't think #2 is really necessary.  Once the camera focus is  
locked on an empty you can simply constrain the empty, giving you  
visual feedback of what the camera is focusing on.

I still emphatically support having a preview focal plane (perhaps  
transparant).  Otherwise one would have to do a render to preview  
which is not feasible with complex scenes with multiple minute render  
times.

On Dec 23, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Doug Ollivier wrote:

> 1) Focus to empty.  no matter where the empty is in the scene....  
> (rather than forcing the focal point to be on the direct centerline  
> of the camera)
>
> 2) Focus constraint with influence (for particular objects).....
>
> dunno if those have been suggested before, or if thats how its  
> already done
>
> Doug Ollivier
>
>
> Michael Crawford wrote:
>>> And well, on the whole, I don't think animating this would be  
>>> necessary too
>>> often?
>>
>> It would be for me, and i'm sue many others.
>>
>>> I mean, most cameras' autofocus uses a fixed x/y position in the  
>>> view
>>> plane for the focus point anyway, don't they?
>>
>> Well, I prefer manual focus all the time.  When I want to use  
>> autofocus, My camera actually has a touch-screen where you can  
>> click the object to focus on.
>>
>> The thing is, that if you want to use "manual focus", it's very  
>> hard to do effectively with a little x instead of an actual plane.
>>
>>
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