Paul Stenquist wrote: >On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:44 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> the camera makers >> themselves even tell you to focus at longest >> setting and then zoom to length you want >> because its easier to focus accurately at >> longer lengths > >This is not a good way to work. Most lenses aren't precise enough to >hold accurate focus while zooming.
The "focus at longest focal length and zoom out" technique comes from motion picture shooting, where it isn't usually any more precise than with still photography, but is the only practical way to work when you're zooming *during* during a shot... Unless you have the budget to hire a separate crew member as focus puller, and I've never worked in film environments that were that classy! ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
