Autofocus?

[J_MAC]

just a quick question, just got a sweet video camera after few years of filmin with gopro. ANyways my question is this: When Y'all are doin follow cams do you have autofocus on or do u use manual focus and are just skilled at keeping the shot within the right distance and well framed?

 

[JibbaTheHutt]

if you set your aperture to around 8 most things should stay pretty much in focus if you're within say 10m of the original focus distance, if that makes any sense at all..

 

[.qzyxya]

This. But also its been answered a couple times already (searchbar). Sometimes though its fun to use a longer lens (maybe a 35 or 50mm) and set it to like f2.8 and try to get a shot with the skier in focus. It looks pretty sick when you can get it right. But at f8 ish and on a wide angle lens most things will be in focus (look up hyperfocal distance).