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I've got the same camera, and it's always interacted... oddly with FCP. The one thing we have to do is make sure that the camera is on and the firewire cable is in connected before we launch Final Cut. If the camera's not connected before starting the program, it won't ever "find" it. Good luck!

They do it a couple of times in combination with the camera man "finding the frame" in Antichrist directed by Lars von Trier and it gives the film a really cool doc-type feel. Otherwise focus pulls can be handy if kinda clichéd substitutes for establishing shots.

"Exposure" is literally the light hitting the film, making a chemical reaction that after some other chemical reactions in a lab somewhere, will result in an image. You are "exposing" your frame of raw stock to light. That light has to be controlled by lenses, which control focus and the...