Jan Luursema
New member
Okay you guys with full frame camera's, tell me how you focus close subjects at big apertures.
We're always told to use the appropriate focus point to get the correct focus for those subjects. That's okay with cropped camera's like the 20D and 1D.
But with full frame camera's, all the focus points are more or less in the center! You can keep your subject in the center ofcourse, but often that's just not an option, composition wise.
So do you focus with the nearest AF point available and recompose, hoping you haven't shifted the focus plane too much and hope for the best? If so, how does that work out? Do you focus slightly in front of your subject, let's say on the eyebrowes or the nose to compensate for the shift in focus and recompose?
Or do you, dear I say, focus manually? Is that even possible off center, maybe you need some special focus screen for this?
A lot of questions, but I hope you can help me out a little here. Right now with my 1D2 I always select the appropriate focus point and shoot, which is often the outmost focus point. Eventually I will go full frame so I'm wondering how to do it then.
Another consideration is when shooting action you usually don't even have time to recompose for composition, since the moment you want to capture will probably be gone by the time you've corrected your composition.
Thanks in advance!
We're always told to use the appropriate focus point to get the correct focus for those subjects. That's okay with cropped camera's like the 20D and 1D.
But with full frame camera's, all the focus points are more or less in the center! You can keep your subject in the center ofcourse, but often that's just not an option, composition wise.
So do you focus with the nearest AF point available and recompose, hoping you haven't shifted the focus plane too much and hope for the best? If so, how does that work out? Do you focus slightly in front of your subject, let's say on the eyebrowes or the nose to compensate for the shift in focus and recompose?
Or do you, dear I say, focus manually? Is that even possible off center, maybe you need some special focus screen for this?
A lot of questions, but I hope you can help me out a little here. Right now with my 1D2 I always select the appropriate focus point and shoot, which is often the outmost focus point. Eventually I will go full frame so I'm wondering how to do it then.
Another consideration is when shooting action you usually don't even have time to recompose for composition, since the moment you want to capture will probably be gone by the time you've corrected your composition.
Thanks in advance!