u/Consistent-Doubt964

More often than not I have very dark exits. I push my ISO has high as acceptable, shoot with a fast lens but I do struggle with focus at like a 1.2 aperture, I put a cube light on my camera but this adds very little light and I feel increasing it would distract the couple and it’s also flat, and when I’ve tried adding external lights it either cast my shadow on the couple or cast guests shadows.

What’s your go to method for filming exits, especially non sparkler ones or ones with little to no light?

I use to use my GH5s on a Ronin S gimbal with just a small focus wheel mounted in on the side. The gimbal fell at my latest wedding shoot and now I can’t pull focus. The wheel no longer works. I even have an RS4 but kept using my Ronin S since I could rack focus manually without touching the gimbal. Now unless I want to mount a heavy focus motor on a rode and attach it to a ring on my camera I can pull focus without touching the camera, for a walking/moving subject etc. This defeats the point of a gimbal to me.

So am I stuck with gimbal shots with set focal lengths?

And is my only other option auto focus with low transition sensitivity?

Is there no other work around for pull focus on moving subjects with a gimbal?