>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I have found that I now use manual focus 100% of the time on my DSLR,.... >> .....In the >>tv industry, broadcast quality cameras with autofocus are unheard of. >>Manual every time. Even the aperture is left on manual. >> >>.02 British pence
>Hold it right there, Bud, and step away from the focus ring! >You do this (manual focus thing) for a living, day in day out. This is a >highly developed skill that few people have. I think that this is a >case where what works specifically for you, won't work the same way for >most people. > >BR I'm holding.... Interesting - I didn't think of that. Point taken. I suppose in mitigation I would say that a TV camera (and by that I mean a video camera used in television, and not a Van Veen Matrimonial DeLuxamatic) has a very small CRT seen through a viewfinder, and not a true optical viewfinder. There is a focussing aid called 'peaking' which enhances the pixelation of this CRT, effectively providing increased sharpening - just in the viewfinder - which helps get a decent focus. Always makes me laugh. We did a story about skin cancer the other day. The reporter says. "get me some nice pretty starburst type shots of the sun - but be very careful because you're not supposed to look at the sun through a lens". Yes sir. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
