jeffersoncasey wrote:
The beauty of having focus tab is that you can use muscle memory to achieve zone focusing without even looking at the lens, which explained above.
One thing I find during practicing zone focusing is that I tend to underestimate the distance. I've been trying to remind myself to err on the father distance when guesstimating. Another technique is to set the focus distance and "walk into the zone" instead of fiddling with the focusing ring/tab.
+1 for "walk into the zone" vs. fiddling.
As to the "farther distance" when guesstimating ...
I seem to recall from my days of yore that the point of focus is not exactly centered 1/2 & 1/2 between the "ends" of the dof range. It's more like 1/3 in front, 2/3 in back ... or something like that. I haven't revisited to confirm that yet, so your point about which side of things to favor when "guesstimating" (along with personal judgment tendencies) is salient.
Here's one that was pretty easy to "guestimate".
Took a stab at some color and a little tone mapping, etc. in C1 ... I'm liking how nicely the files play along.
jeffersoncasey wrote:
The beauty of having focus tab is that you can use muscle memory to achieve zone focusing without even looking at the lens, which explained above.
One thing I find during practicing zone focusing is that I tend to underestimate the distance. I've been trying to remind myself to err on the father distance when guesstimating. Another technique is to set the focus distance and "walk into the zone" instead of fiddling with the focusing ring/tab.
+1 for "walk into the zone" vs. fiddling.
As to the "farther distance" when guesstimating ...
I seem to recall from my days of yore that the point of focus is not exactly centered 1/2 & 1/2 between the "ends" of the dof range. It's more like 1/3 in front, 2/3 in back ... or something like that. I haven't revisited to confirm that yet, so your point about which side of things to favor when "guesstimating" (along with personal judgment tendencies) is salient.
Here's one that was pretty easy to "guestimate".
Took a stab at some color and a little tone mapping, etc. in C1 ... I'm liking how nicely the files play along.
jeffersoncasey wrote:
The beauty of having focus tab is that you can use muscle memory to achieve zone focusing without even looking at the lens, which explained above.
One thing I find during practicing zone focusing is that I tend to underestimate the distance. I've been trying to remind myself to err on the father distance when guesstimating. Another technique is to set the focus distance and "walk into the zone" instead of fiddling with the focusing ring/tab.
+1 for "walk into the one" vs. fiddling.
As to the "farther distance" when guesstimating ...
I seem to recall from my days of yore that the point of focus is not exactly centered 1/2 & 1/2 between the "ends" of the dof range. It's more like 1/3 in front, 2/3 in back ... or something like that. I haven't revisited to confirm that yet, so your point about which side of things to favor when "guesstimating" (along with personal judgment tendencies) is salient.
Here's one that was pretty easy to "guestimate".
Took a stab at some color and a little tone mapping, etc. in C1 ... I'm liking how nicely the files play along.
jeffersoncasey wrote:
The beauty of having focus tab is that you can use muscle memory to achieve zone focusing without even looking at the lens, which explained above.
One thing I find during practicing zone focusing is that I tend to underestimate the distance. I've been trying to remind myself to err on the father distance when guesstimating. Another technique is to set the focus distance and "walk into the zone" instead of fiddling with the focusing ring/tab.
+1 for "walk into the one" vs. fiddling.
As to the "farther distance" when guesstimating ...
I seem to recall from my days of yore that the point of focus is not exactly centered 1/2 & 1/2 between the "ends" of the dof range. It's more like 1/3 in front, 2/3 in back ... or something like that. I haven't revisited to confirm that yet, so your point about which side of things to favor when "guesstimating" (along with personal judgment tendencies) is salient.
Here's one that was pretty easy to "guestimate".
Took a stab at some color and a little tone mapping in C1, etc. ... I'm liking how nicely the files play along.
