Hi John ... Interspersed:
> [Original Message] > From: John Forbes > I don't know how you set the focus points on the DS, but on the D it's > very easy to move the switch to another setting, and end up focussing on > the wrong thing. Until I realised what was happening, that accounted for > a lot of focus problems when I first got the camera. I tnd to use AF > because my eyes aren't what they used to be. When I first got the camera, John Celio showed me how to set the focus point, so now the camera is set properly to use only the center focus point. However, the problem of oof is eveident with MF lenses. I've only one AF lens and I don't think I've used it with AF yet. > Bear in mind, too, that the smaller sensor area means greater enlargement > is required (you knew that), and this in turn means that a lens which > might have been only just sharp enough on film will not be sharp enough on > digital. That's a good point, and something I'll look into. I used my M150/3.5 yesterday, got focus confirmation, was stopped down to f11, and was shooting out towards infinity with a highish shutter speed, and the pic was oof. > All photos are soft out of the camera (assuming you haven't turned up the > sharpening), and will need sharpening later. Yes, I'm quite familiar with that ;-)) > As for exposure, I typically have my camera set for 1/3 stop > under-exposure. Do you use spot, center weighted, or the matrix metering? Shel
