Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >With static nature shots, I had the unfortunate habit of focussing behind >the subject. I even thought there was something wrong with my R8. Nope, it >was just me needing to get the hang of it. A Plain Ground Glass screen >helped a lot with focussing with action and wildlife shooting. HA! This reminds me about something funny about myself and focusing long lenses. I am, or should say used to be, really good at follow focusing on the long lenses. I would get most frames per roll sharp. BUT when shooting a static object I was likely to get the damn thing out of focus. I remember the first Panthers football game I covered for Journal Communications. They sent both of our photographers to the game, me and David. I told David about this oddity of mine and he just laughed at me saying I had to be making that up. Well when we got the film back all of the photos of game action were sharp on my film, David did not have many keepers - I attribute this more to the fact I had covered NFL football extensively in the past and this was his first game, BUT my shots of the players pregame where they were not running around my hit rate was way lower. Oh and for focusing and waiting for the players to run into the plane of focus, not a great way to get key action. Once you learn to follow focus it is as automatic as looking through the camera. Your fingers just spin the dial keeping the subject in focus as they move. Very easy to do once you get the hang of it. - -- Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net