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MANUALLY: FOCUSING SUPER WIDE ANGLE LENSES ON SLRS 

 

A small note regarding focusing with wide angle lenses! Trust me it works 
perfectly and quickly right on the mark when using SLR cameras! Although you 
may require a few practice runs to hit it right on.

If using a wide lens and you are about to shoot, even before you look 
through the lens, quickly crank the focusing ring to it's closest point of 
focus.

When you look through the viewfinder everything should be nothing but a wild 
wild blur of out of focus scene.

Now begin to focus from that point and the scene-situation will pop into 
clear focus in a far better manner than starting to focus from the infinity 
mark! Trust me it works magically as your eye will see the sharpness much 
better from closest point, than starting from infinity.

I've worked in this fashion literally thousands upon thousands of times and 
it's never failed me.

If you don't believe me.... go out and try a few times.

Don't look through the viewfinder and crank it to the closest point, have 
that movement completed "BEFORE YOU PUT THE CAMERA TO YOUR EYE!" Then begin 
your focus routine and you will be quite surprized. It may take a 
fewpractice runs before you smooth it out. But certainly worth a try.  
BEFORE YOU ARE SHOOTING A PAYING ASSIGNMENT!!!