This is one reason I have not done more macro work because it is so hard to get the diopter adjustment on the camera accurate enough to be assured that when you manually focus, using the viewfinder, your shot will actually be in focus.
I refuse to wear my glasses while shooting because my eyesight is not that bad but it is just bad enough to make it impossible to manually focus using the viewfinder.
This sounds like my solution to macro photography.
jim
Edited by Jim Victory on Mar 03, 2007 at 05:12 PM GMT
Jim Victory wrote:
This is one reason I have not done more macro work because it is so hard to get the diopter adjustment on the camera accurate enough to be assured that when you manually focus, using the viewfinder, your shot will actually be in focus.
I refuse to wear my glasses while shooting because my eyesight is not that bad but it is just bad enough to make it impossible to manually focus using the viewfinder.
This sounds like my solution to macro photography.
Jim Victory wrote:
Actually I'm nearsighted but at 60 I now have to use reading glasses for things up close.
It's pretty easy to remedy that, just stop down between f5.6 to f8, get as close as to where you think your perceived sharpness is. After that, use center AF to fine tune it and/or make sure that it's "on" target, then recompose. This depends on how close you are to your subject, if you're EXTREMELY close, the background will still be blurred out, thus isolating your subject from the rest of the photograph. Having a ring or macro flash helps in case you decide to shoot wide open and if you're afraid that the slightest movement you make might move your focal plane to another location.
In the whitepaper, it states that it "maintains water resistence with the 580EX II". I take that as a notch down from weather sealed, but does that mean the hotshoe is a vulnerable spot on the camera?
OSev wrote:
In the whitepaper, it states that it "maintains water resistence with the 580EX II". I take that as a notch down from weather sealed, but does that mean the hotshoe is a vulnerable spot on the camera?
If the different wording means a real difference in practice, it is very likely not due to the hot shoe, but due to the high voltage inside the flash unit. The high voltage makes the flash itself more vulnerable to moisture than the camera and its low voltage hot shoe.
Interesting, one can only hope Canon implements this feature in the upcoming s3. But do you know if focusing can be done with the camera hand-held or will camera shake at 10x enlargement make focusing (too) difficult?
I'm still very happy with the 2090. Struggling with the Budget Fairy over the 2690, 1DMkIII, and my new strobes that I probably (OK definitely) didn't really need.
Interesting, one can only hope Canon implements this feature in the upcoming s3. But do you know if focusing can be done with the camera hand-held or will camera shake at 10x enlargement make focusing (too) difficult?
My opinion,...YMMV.
If excellent focus is critical to a shot,...it is difficult enough to hand-hold the camera steady when braced against your face, using the viewfinder.
While the LCD might make better "seeing" possible for the focus,...holding it far enough away for your eyes to focus clearly on the LCD itself would make it impossible (for me at least)to hold the un-braced camera still.
Some people are going to need reading glasses to get close enough to the monitor. I use strong reading glasses that magnify (for me) normal sight when using an LF ground glass.
Interesting to note that the 1DIII sharpens the magnified image to exaggerate OOF. I can see using a dark cloth when using TSE lens in the field with this camera.
I keep reading people are on waiting lists and preordering the 1D3. I buy most of my gear from B&H and Adorama, which aren't taking orders yet. Where are people getting on these lists or preordering from?
The 1D3 syncs at 1/300th. What is that? Is it a quarter stop above 1/250th? It sounds like it'd get in the way of going through various shutter speed options with a random number thrown in like that.
I had a 14-hour shoot today. Off-center cross-type sensors would have been so nice...
The 1D3 syncs at 1/300th. What is that? Is it a quarter stop above 1/250th? It sounds like it'd get in the way of going through various shutter speed options with a random number thrown in like that.
There's always high speed sync aside from FP sync of up to 1/300th of a second. I STILL missed the original 1D's 1/500 sync & 1/16000 shutter speed but I don't miss its battery life at all.......
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