The sandwich makes it even better! :) I had NO idea how to do what you just demonstrated, so that's really cool. I use manual lenses more than automatic, so this is VERY helpful to me, especially like you said in the intro, for street. I am REALLY lucky I had lunch right before you ended with that sandwich, though. :) Merry Christmas.
Yeah, the bottle at 2ft was noticeably out of focus (3:20) - the DoF calculator was calling for the lens to be focussed at 5.8ft. It'll probably look sharp on colour film, but good B&W film will show that softness. Indoors cranking the focus to infinity isn't ideal, however for outdoor landscapes (without anything closer than ~10ft) focussing at infinity is good enough
Can you have the picture of your alcohol bottles set the same but somehow capture the fire flame in the background so it is not blurry since it is moving and the foreground is not.
Hi BW! You sure can. That photo was a long exposure. I believe it was 1 second long. If I bumped the ISO up, I could have stopped the flames in its tracks
I expected more, honestly. The method you described... sure, it can be used. Sometimes. In certain situations, when you can roughly know what your next shot will be. Like, if you are out in the woods, it will be some kind of a landscape, not a fast-moving street interaction. In short, this method is okay when you have a reasonable amount of time to get ready, and almost totally useless when you need to react fast (street, for example)
Quite the opposite: you don't want to be messing around with focal length when you're trying to snap street shots. Maybe you don't go to F/22, but set yourself up to F/8 so you can capture more movement, get your depth of field where you want it, wind your film and then all you need to do is point-and-shoot.
Please stop saying that wide angles have greater depth of field. Use Apparent! If one blows image up to match longer lens, your depth of field shrinks...ALL lenses have same depth of field at same aperture. Optical law.
The sandwich makes it even better! :) I had NO idea how to do what you just demonstrated, so that's really cool. I use manual lenses more than automatic, so this is VERY helpful to me, especially like you said in the intro, for street. I am REALLY lucky I had lunch right before you ended with that sandwich, though. :) Merry Christmas.
Haha, that is awesome, Chris! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas to you and yours 🍻🍷🎄🔥
Rather than cranking the lens out to infinity, set the focus to the hyperfocal distance at a suitably small aperture for best results.
I crank it. 🤠
Yeah, the bottle at 2ft was noticeably out of focus (3:20) - the DoF calculator was calling for the lens to be focussed at 5.8ft. It'll probably look sharp on colour film, but good B&W film will show that softness. Indoors cranking the focus to infinity isn't ideal, however for outdoor landscapes (without anything closer than ~10ft) focussing at infinity is good enough
Can you have the picture of your alcohol bottles set the same but somehow capture the fire flame in the background so it is not blurry since it is moving and the foreground is not.
Hi BW! You sure can. That photo was a long exposure. I believe it was 1 second long. If I bumped the ISO up, I could have stopped the flames in its tracks
DOF example was very eazy to understand but how about setting up the dof starting at an arm lenght or less to the bottle! 😎
Great idea 🤠
I expected more, honestly. The method you described... sure, it can be used. Sometimes. In certain situations, when you can roughly know what your next shot will be. Like, if you are out in the woods, it will be some kind of a landscape, not a fast-moving street interaction.
In short, this method is okay when you have a reasonable amount of time to get ready, and almost totally useless when you need to react fast (street, for example)
Quite the opposite: you don't want to be messing around with focal length when you're trying to snap street shots. Maybe you don't go to F/22, but set yourself up to F/8 so you can capture more movement, get your depth of field where you want it, wind your film and then all you need to do is point-and-shoot.
Exactly! It's as fast as it can be. F11, 1600 ISO, done deal. Street all day long
It's the only setup for the street. F11, 1600 ISO, "Crank" to infity before you leave the house. Done dea, setup complete 👍🤠l
Please stop saying that wide angles have greater depth of field. Use Apparent! If one blows image up to match longer lens, your depth of field shrinks...ALL lenses have same depth of field at same aperture. Optical law.
Hi Jason, I disagree 👍🍻