Timeline for How to focus manually when you don't have a live view in the DSLR?
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 21:21 | answer | added | Dana Williams | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 22:28 | comment | added | user2719 | Focusing on the ground glass alone, especially on a 35mm or APS-C format camera is an estimate at best. On an 8X10, where things are a whole lot easier to see, I'd use a 10x loupe to achieve critical focus (and a horribly expensive vacuum film holder to make sure the film sheet was flat). It really depends on whether or not close enough really is close enough -- if DoF is going to eat the errors, then ground-glass focusing is close enough. If not, then a focus aid (prism, AF point, live view) will almost always be more accurate (the "almost" accounts for luck, not skill). | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 11:32 | comment | added | user3739 | @MikeW - If you're bothered you can often fit split-image type displays into your viewfinder. Personally I have no problem manually focussing with my viewfinder, and find live-view/lcd focussing a drag. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 11:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhotos/status/149812021754462208 | ||
| S Dec 22, 2011 at 9:37 | history | suggested | Abhi |
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| Dec 22, 2011 at 8:13 | answer | added | MikeW | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 8:06 | comment | added | MikeW | jwenting - older cameras also had the split-image and prism collar focusing screens, as Stan mentions. Modern cameras are hard to accurately focus in comparison if just eyeballing the viewfinder. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 6:45 | comment | added | Aquarius_Girl | @jwenting Tone down, and stop putting words into my mouth. I have not claimed anything. I haven't seen a DSLR yet, and I think before purchasing it is better to get to understand all the details regarding it, hence asked. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 6:41 | comment | added | jwenting | people have been using manual focus without watching at a videoscreen for over a hundred years, and you're claiming it may be impossible?<br/> What do you think the viewfinder is for, a device far more accurate than any video screen? | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 6:01 | vote | accept | Aquarius_Girl | ||
| Dec 22, 2011 at 5:30 | answer | added | user2719 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 5:13 | history | asked | Aquarius_Girl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |