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Lovely shot! Always wondered how good the Raynox addons were! Which lens did you use it with?
Thanks Chris. I used the 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm.
Lovely shot! Always wondered how good the Raynox addons were! Which lens did you use it with?
Why is a distance scale so important? Is it for manual focusing? Do you just guess the distance and put it in on your lens?
Why is a distance scale so important? Is it for manual focusing? Do you just guess the distance and put it in on your lens?
Yes. Scale focusing. If you've a good feel for the depth of field that the current aperture is going to give you it works well.
Particularly useful if you're shooting street photos where you don't want to draw too much attention and nor do you want to wait for the AF to catch up, or don't think it will focus on the right spot...
or you don't want to stand around like a plonker looking through the viewfinder waiting for the right moment to take the shot
at your leisure
- estimate the distance
- dial in the focus on the lens
when the moment is right
- raise camera, frame quickly and fire the shutter
- lower camera
Did exactly that for this...
The problem I have is that when shooting in low light or very low light or darkness the chances of achieving focus lock are pretty much zero plus I sometimes do hyperfocal too so instead of guessing and taking multiple shots and just hoping that something is in acceptable focus I like a distance scale so that I can zone focus or set it to focus on infinity, avoiding beyond would be nice too.
The Panny lenses I have have no distance scale and therefore all I can do is turn the focus ring the opposite way to which I'd turn the zoom ring for more zoom and then get somewhere near focus on infinity but of course anything less than that is pure guesswork as there's no real sense of where the hell the focus is set to so setting the focus to infinity is just about possible but setting for focus at 2, 3 yards or whatever is simply impossible.
Yes. There are many times when zone focusing is better than focusing on a point.
In olden times...
Lots of times you wouldn't actually focus on anything at all, you'd set the distance and aperture and shoot... of course you'd probably get a shot in which nothing was actually in critical focus but at normal print sizes and viewing distances you'd never know. These days people pixel peep and zone focus might be rejected as being a load of crap.
Janice said:But don't you have to sort out you aperture and/or shutter speed for a correct exposure, therefore keeping the camera up to your eye for a while anyway??
What tripod would people recommend for a Lumix G2? Idealy it should be sturdy but lightweight as I am likely going to take it trekking with me.
..great shots by the way
What adaptor is needed to mount those types of lenses on a Panasonic?
What adaptor is needed to mount those types of lenses on a Panasonic?
im looking to take the plunge and get a gf2 to replace my 50d. just one question. is the 14-42 kit lens any good, or am i better off just going for the 14mm pancake, instead of the twin lens kit
If you're not used to shooting with other [SLR] cameras, don't worry about it.
It's a 50mm lens, so it will give a bit longer 'zoom' than the 14-42mm kit lens does at 42mm.
e2a: If you're thinking about other focal lengths, older, manual focus lenses that at the wide end on your G1 (less than 24mm) will tend to be relatively expensive for anything decent. However, if you're looking for a long lens for the G1, there are any number of good options between 50mm and 200mm that won't cost an arm and a leg. While there are are exceptions, older zooms tend to be lower on image quality (and certainly light gathering ability, i.e. low f/stop numbers) so I'd check out some prime (fixed focal length) lenses as a cheap intro.
hillwalkinggirl said:I took my GF1 with 20mm pancake lens to the local sensory garden to see how it worked with EZ Optical zoom selected. I know I could have used other lens to get these shots but it was just an experiment. If it's there you just have to try it.
1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillwalkinggirl/5926202161/
Yellow Poppy by hillwalkinggirl, on Flickr
2.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillwalkinggirl/5926204069/
Coming to an end by hillwalkinggirl, on Flickr
Love the DOF on the second one, Barbara. How do you find the fact that to engage the EZ you must use jpg at medium quality? Do you still find it workable?
woof woof said:I don't have an S95 but perhaps my LX5 is about the same? Anyway, I think that my GF1+20mm f1.7 beats my LX5 for image quality by quite a margin. If that help you... )