Size of the clothespin: 4,7 cm

Distance camera-clothespin: 10 cm

Lens: 50mm f/1.8 with extention tube #1 - manual focusing. (Focus could be better - I am working on it)

Light source: 4 x 20W power saving lamp.

Underlay: Some kind of translucent plastic sheet.

It's not my intention to be so specific with all my photos. It is just a little ad for funadium who has worked hard to learn me a lot about photographing and who gave me the advise to buy the new lens, the lamps (and not to forget a DSLR camera), store away the bricklayer lamp, almost forget that the camera has a flash and of course forget all about automatic settings.

Curious to know more? Take a look at funadiums Photo tutoring.

This fish was struggling to get get free even though it was pinned by the herons beak. As a fly fisherman, I admire the sheer talent of these fishing machines.

of Buon Ma Thuot

My camera will never focus in low light so I figured out how to manually focus my lens

Calgary Street Art (Manual focus lens)

bumped into keda and oskar at the grafton.

Soligor 350mm 1:5.6 on Canon 20D EOS

Manual Focus

peru from above

Color or black and white? Murray HATES my cameras, but won't let me use my laptop. I can keep him at bay with a manual focus lens

Pentax K-01 with SMC Pentax 55mm f/1.8 manual focus lens

Was down in Sydney for their Twilight Parade event for the Chinese New Year Festival 2011 - Year of the rabbit.

Street photography series for the day, Black and White Series :D

Saw this guy with a good jacket on standing a short distance away from the crowd at the barricades. I decided to try isolating his side profile with the 85mm manual focus lens :D

Westminster Bridge, London

Nikon Z7ii, Hanimex 35/2.8

getting ready for acting

pancolar 50mm/f1.8

Testing 500D

Running around late at night after going to see Cherish the Ladies at the Albuquerque Zoo with friends. I set the camera to manual focus and ISO 3200 and f/1.4 and ran around with the kids and holding down the shutter. A couple of them were almost interesting :)

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Shots taken around Himley park in the West Midlands,decided it was time to do a bit of manual focusing so all these are taken on the 400D with a Soligor 135mm f 2.8 MF lens

_MG_4403_TS +max shift

manual focus with Tamron 28mm 2:8

Manual focus.

Manual focus handheld

Vectis Motocross at Corve Farm, Isle of Wight.

Manual focus practice! *eek*

The aim of the day for me was to learn how to manually focus which was a challenge but great fun. C+C welcome from those over 15 years old. :)

I bought a big zoom. It broke, right in the middle of a shoot and in the lead up to the IOW Festival.

Luckily the shop have given me a full refund and Moyen Format (Dave) was kind enough to sort me out with a 70-210mm Vivitar Series One f/3.5 lens.

Being an old classic it was designed for a different camera and so an adaptor was needed from Hong Kong (£17) but it is a superb lens! Thanks again, Dave.

Taken with Vivitar series1 135mm 2.3 lens

With the recent demise of my trusty Tamron 17 - 50 F/2.8 lens, still waiting to hear back from Tamron... Tried out a friend's lens tonight, an older film lens - Tokina 19 - 35 F/3.5 - 4.5 - of course entirely manual focus... I have owned a camera in the past I had to manually focus, but that was awhile ago now...

Missed the focus on everything here, not on purpose, although it may look artsy and funky... LOL

Piccadilly, London.

Nikon Z7ii, Hanimex 35/2.8

Learn the function of Nikon P520

NIKON D90, Nikon 28-80mm AF-G Lens f 3.3 - 5.6 lens manual focus

So... A few years ago when I shot with a Minolta film SLR I had to use manual focus... When I moved to digital - Nikon dSLR - I got lazy and always used auto focus... I have a feeling that with a mirrorless camera manual focus is a more critical skill, one attempt from Saturday...

Shutting off after along day.

View On Black

Film : Fomapan 400

Developer : Diafine

Camera : Nikon F90X

Lens : 50mm 1.4 AiS

Scanner : Canoscan 8400F

Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm F1.7 manual focus lens

Rebel T2i Test video - 1080p Video.

Shot this with manual focus using the 60mm f/2.8 macro lens at ISO 1600.

See lots of promise here :)

A proper product photographer would have blown the dust off the lens first!

A small test with manual focus objectives on my D300..

Moon during daytime

Used for this pic: Exacta 500mm f/8 mirror lens

Manual focus.

Manual shutter release. Shutter speed is 1/250 and aperture is f/5.6.

Since I went digital, I've used auto-focus lenses. I've just bought three (very cheap) manual focus lenses from China: to see if I could learn to do without auto-focus. I'm pleased with this attempt.

Using my Makro-Planar 4/120 lens on my daughters Nikon D7000 house, trying to catch some birds. This combination is 1.6 kilo lighter than using the Tele 5.6/350 on my 503CW, so almost manageable to do in-flight manual focus. Will need plenty more exercise to get it right.

(File: ZF00179.NEF)

Manual Focus effects