Focus by feel

[Sweendog <sweenma@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU>]

Hi Joe (and everybody else)

Learning to focus by feeling the tab takes a while, and differs from
each person. It took me a while, but I think it's faster than
autofocus.

Here's how you do it in case you haven't heard: Look at something some
distance away, and set the focus to infinity. Raise the camera to your
eye, and focus on it. Now put the camera down, and feel the position
of the tab on your lens, remember it, and set it back to infinity (all
the while looking at your subject). Try to put the tab back to where
it was, raise the camera back up, and see how you did. Keep trying
this until you get it right, and move on to other subjects at
different distances. It might take you 1,000 tries but it's a great
technique & makes for lightning fast photography.

Regards,

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                          Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
     Mike Sweeney         I took the one less traveled by,
sweenma@wkuvx1.wku.edu    And that has made all the difference.
                                                 - Robert Frost