Yeah, that's how I've been doing it for something like twelve years. I think that it's just the wide world of view and shallow focus so that the camera keeps finding something like writing on the background to focus on .
On December 4, 2019 8:12:46 AM PST, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: >From your reply below it seems like you have the customization for the >AF button on the "CANCEL AF" setting which sets the camera to manual >focus when the AF button is pressed - but only when continuing to press > >the AF button. It will remain in manual as long as you hold down the >AF >button but once you release it the camera reverts back to AF with the >shutter release button. Is it possible that's what's happening for >you? > >-p > >On 12/3/2019 4:04 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> On Dec 3, 2019, at 1:27 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> >wrote: >>> >>> Am 03.12.19 um 00:40 schrieb Larry Colen: >>>> Rather than focusing on some random object in the foreground, I >keep getting all of these photos that are perfectly focused on the >wall... >>> I've solved this prob by selecting spot focus in the centre of the >>> image, taking the focussing function away from the trigger, and >putting >>> it on the AF button. >>> >>> This way, you put the object you want to focus on smack in the >centre of >>> the image, push the AF button and then reframe to get the shot you >want. >>> Stop down a little and you're usually good for a few shots without >>> having to re-focus each time. >> I pretty much do the same thing, but differently. I have the AF >button set to lock out AF, so I’ll depress the shutter until I get >focus then lock it with the AF button. Same thing, but in normal >conditions I don’t have to think about explicitly focusing. I was >using the 35/1.4 rather than the 31/1.8 in the low light explicitly >because I needed the extra 2/3 of a stop, stopping down a couple of >stops would have been counterproductive. :-) >> >> >>> Ralf >>> >>> -- >>> Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany >>> Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com >>> Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf >>> Web : http://www.fotoralf.de >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >-- >Paul Sorenson >Studio1941 > >Sooner or later "different" scares people. > > >-- >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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
