focusing
I loved a split ring focus screen. My Bronica equipment had this feature in the metered prisms. It made things very simple. As you looked through the view finder, there was a circle with a horizontal line running through the center. If your subject area within that circle was out of focus, it would appear as if cut in half, with one piece shifted to the left and the other to the right. Turning the focus ring of the lens would bring the two halves together until a perfect fit. TaDa... in focus.
I really wish my digital cameras had this for critical focus because as I get older, it gets harder to do by just looking, especially in low light.
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wedding 2015 wrote: ...when I switch my focus to manual then look through the view find everything is blurry.
Besides the camera actually being out of focus your viewfinder diopter may need to be adjusted. Look for a small dial by the viewfinder. Aim the camera at a bright, solid tone area, and adjust the diopter until the AF point symbols look sharpest. Keep track of your adjustment. It's easy to accidentally move the dial. If you know that you are 5 clicks counter-clockwise you can re-adjust it quickly.
Focusing seems like a simple enough activity, but like anything with practice your abilities will improve. Or with disuse they will atrophy. I used to be a pretty good manual focuser, but these days I almost always rely on AF, and I can tell on the occasion I need to use MF.
There are alternate viewscreens available for many DSLRs. They may be brighter than normal and/or have focus assist such as microbeads or split rings. I have a variety of both installed in my DSLRs. I still use AF most of the time.
Henry Peach wrote:
wedding 2015 wrote: ...when I switch my focus to manual then look through the view find everything is blurry.
Besides the camera actually being out of focus your viewfinder diopter may need to be adjusted. Look for a small dial by the viewfinder. Aim the camera at a bright, solid tone area, and adjust the diopter until the AF point symbols look sharpest. Keep track of your adjustment. It's easy to accidentally move the dial. If you know that you are 5 clicks counter-clockwise you can re-adjust it quickly.
Focusing seems like a simple enough activity, but like anything with practice your abilities will improve. Or with disuse they will atrophy. I used to be a pretty good manual focuser, but these days I almost always rely on AF, and I can tell on the occasion I need to use MF.
There are alternate viewscreens available for many DSLRs. They may be brighter than normal and/or have focus assist such as microbeads or split rings. I have a variety of both installed in my DSLRs. I still use AF most of the time.
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