James Markus
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Samy, That little finder was only good for approximate composition, and starting fires. It dd nothing for focus. I have only used live view focus for copy stand work, stationary light-table product shoots, and converting film to digital with the EFH/NLP that Dean shared here. Otherwise, the focus delay on the back screen of particularly Nikon bodies (D7200 and D850 are much improved) made me choose not to use it in the field. Then I remembered shooting a series in my studio called "Land Pearls" Linked here where I had this beautiful 300mm f4.5 Nikkor that I couldn't seem to ever get anything in focus. I popped it on the 5D mkII and used live view. Suddenly was clear to me that the lens was fine, and user error was the problem.
saph wrote:
Jim, live view is cheating  Its not fun until you look through a fogged and very dim finder of an Ikonta folder and try to figure out focus and composition
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Samy, that's not good staying in that air! Be careful out there. Seriously, rather sever and unexpected damage can sometimes be done in a short amount of time! I think this is one of the worst such air conditions I have ever seen. When we moved to Allen from Plano in '04, the smoke from the fire in Mexico City reached us and the smell of smoke was very intense. I can only imagine what you are experiencing! Stay safe!
