On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> When I'm shooting subjects at f8 with the 50-135 I can always >> center-focus and reframe with no ill effects. I do not do that at f2.2 >> with the DA*55 shooting close-in (head and shoulders). Guaranteed >> fail. I move the focus point and carefully focus on subject's eye. > > Many thanks to both you and Matthew! I really hadn't understood about > the flat-plane focus, and I appreciate the mini-lesson. I should do > some experiments to get more of an intuitive understanding of what's > going on. > > For the above, do you only do that with a tripod, or do you also do it > with handheld shooting?
Mainly handheld actually. Honestly I don't do that much tripod shooting. I've been doing it lately when sharpness is going to be an issue like when I shot some jewelry being worn. But when shooting people, especially models, I like to be able to move about and keep the energy level up. The trick is to trip the shutter absolutely as soon as you acquire focus lock. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
