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Little Miss Back-focus
The Laws of Physics are inviolable. At least for me and most of us. They are what they are. I guess. When such laws are not obeyed stuff happens........ or doesn't. Something like that is my guess.
I didn't pay close attention to the point of focus with this until after I started playing around with the post processing. Def back-focus.... The back-focus is my own fault. After locking focus I moved forward. Works every time. :-) A few other problems as well. But..... I had shot RAW+ so it was raw to the rescue.... OK... not entirely. Anyway, this will remain unfinished. Eventually I'll drive past the location and stop for a few snaps that hopefully will be properly focused. And I'll stop down a little more. Or.. continue to violate the Laws of Physics with the usual success.
So...uhmmm..... Yea...A friend of mine worked in a camera shop and had a number of customers return lenses they believed misfocused. Ignorance of the Laws of Physics is no defense.... He would ask the customer to demonstrate the failure. What did he notice on many occasions? The customer would lock focus at wide aperture and them move forward or backward ever so slightly or a bunch. Usually his breaking out a solid tripod and focus ramp thingy proved the lens fine, the customer guilty of pigeon head focusing ..... Not always though. Some, lenses and customers, were clearly defective or needed fine tuning. BTW.... Never buy expensive fast AF glass if your camera lacks AF fine tuning. You could find yourself in a near blind rage and unable to focus.
Ah... There are a couple of things about the image that did work as intended so I printed out of curiosity. Just a 5X7... I was also curious to see how bad the unfinished bits would look printed. Printing images that I know are flawed is something I've done several times. Too many times. That way I can learn me some stuff... If next time everything, and I mean everything, comes together with a re-shoot I'll print larger.
The end.
Little Miss Back-focus
The Laws of Physics are inviolable. At least for me and most of us. They are what they are. I guess. When such laws are not obeyed stuff happens........ or doesn't. Something like that is my guess.
I didn't pay close attention to the point of focus with this until after I started playing around with the post processing. Def back-focus.... The back-focus is my own fault. After locking focus I moved forward. Works every time. :-) A few other problems as well. But..... I had shot RAW+ so it was raw to the rescue.... OK... not entirely. Anyway, this will remain unfinished. Eventually I'll drive past the location and stop for a few snaps that hopefully will be properly focused. And I'll stop down a little more. Or.. continue to violate the Laws of Physics with the usual success.
So...uhmmm..... Yea...A friend of mine worked in a camera shop and had a number of customers return lenses they believed misfocused. Ignorance of the Laws of Physics is no defense.... He would ask the customer to demonstrate the failure. What did he notice on many occasions? The customer would lock focus at wide aperture and them move forward or backward ever so slightly or a bunch. Usually his breaking out a solid tripod and focus ramp thingy proved the lens fine, the customer guilty of pigeon head focusing ..... Not always though. Some, lenses and customers, were clearly defective or needed fine tuning. BTW.... Never buy expensive fast AF glass if your camera lacks AF fine tuning. You could find yourself in a near blind rage and unable to focus.
Ah... There are a couple of things about the image that did work as intended so I printed out of curiosity. Just a 5X7... I was also curious to see how bad the unfinished bits would look printed. Printing images that I know are flawed is something I've done several times. Too many times. That way I can learn me some stuff... If next time everything, and I mean everything, comes together with a re-shoot I'll print larger.
The end.