On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Looked at your photos ... My one advice: get closer, frame tighter. :-)
I couldn't exactly get up "on stage" with the band. Though I could drop some of them tighter. > >> ... I'm curious if other people have this problem when manually focusing, >> and what they do to fix it. .. > > I see I'm not alone in my preference for plain matte fresnel focusing > screens. ;-) Interesting, because I found the screens that came with my Pentaxes nearly useless for manual focusing. > > Microprism and split prism focusing aids are usually distractions in > SLR viewfinders, for me. I always changed my focusing screen to a > simple, matte fresnel screen (with horizontal/vertical reference lines > preferably) when possible. Longer lenses are easier to focus because > when wide open the in-focus zone is shallow; short lenses are where > focusing aids can help most. With any lens, good crisp contrast when > wide open is the biggest aid to manual focusing, regardless of > focusing screen, lens speed or focal length. That may be one reason I like my FA77 so much. > > Beyond that, it's a matter of skill through lots of practice. I do try to practice, and to practice different techniques. > The EVF in the G1 is no exception, except that it makes nailing > critical manual focus even easier than any of the optical reflex > focusing systems I've used. Interestingly I found that manual focus on my FZ-50 to be nearly impossible to get right. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
