Tesselator
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Here's the Zuiko 300mm F/4.5 Auto-T with some 80% ~ 100% crops on the GH1 M4/3 body:
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actually I don't like split image so much for this sort of work. I find that working in impression is better. You become intimate with which way to turn the lens to bring it closer or further (a reason I don't like to mix lenses with differing thread direction) and by being past on and too close I can get in tight. I was practicing on swifts when I got my FD300 for my G1 and wasn't doing bad (boring shots however as they were just against a blue sky).I shot manual everything for over 40 years but even with the enhanced EVF I find it a real challenge to nail BIF as consistently as Tesselator and some others do. I miss the split image focusing screens of the past.
thanks ... nah, one of the Santa fisher's HelpersCool pic BTW! Very wintery. Santa fisher?
I would never have thought that. I guess I just need a lot of practice with the GF-1. I think a lot of my frustration comes from my poor experiences with the E-620 LCD and manual focus lenses.It's actually much more difficult on a split prism. You need smooth ground glass with maybe an optional grid of thirds. The EVF in the GH1 is actually superior to ground glass too. It does this aliasing thing right when the sharpest focus is achieved.
It's not just "possible", it's downright fun! It changes photography from a pastime into a sport. One that doesn't require athletics thankfully! Kinda like skeet shooting but you can do it anywhere. And the flatter the lens the easier it is - as opposed to split-prism OVFs where it's just the opposite. LCDs are useless for MF unless of course you're shooting stabilized in low-light - like desk-top photomacrography, microscopy, and photomicrography, or even some kinds of studio portraiture I guess too.
Probably some of that is perception based but I dig it anyway... I'm having great fun with these MF lenses... much more than I ever had with the D2x or the other AF systems I've owned.
now there is your problem ... GF-1 and manual focus with a 620 ... screen is too small to really see. Once upon a time I (and many others) demanded cameras with different focusing screens. My film EOS 630 has survived this long (like since 1990) because it has such a large focusing screen. I laughed the first time I used a 4/3 camera ... its such an iddy biddy screen.I would never have thought that. I guess I just need a lot of practice with the GF-1. I think a lot of my frustration comes from my poor experiences with the E-620 LCD and manual focus lenses.
one hundred percent ... put them on my blog some time agoLOL... Slightly more revealing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei69bYwwCvc And of course the instructions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyqODDF-LU
Thanks for that. I just picked up a new G1 body and I'll give that a try.now there is your problem ... GF-1 and manual focus with a 620 ... screen is too small to really see. Once upon a time I (and many others) demanded cameras with different focusing screens. My film EOS 630 has survived this long (like since 1990) because it has such a large focusing screen. I laughed the first time I used a 4/3 camera ... its such an iddy biddy screen.
the G1 has almost as good an area to look at as my EOS 630 ... pick up a G1 (or G2) and have a go with it.
oh gosh ... hope I'm not to blame for that... didja get it cheap??Thanks for that. I just picked up a new G1 body and I'll give that a try.
No I don't blame you. I saw it new for $249 and couldn't resist.oh gosh ... hope I'm not to blame for that... didja get it cheap??
the SLR style is good for many things, and action tracking is one
bewdyNo I don't blame you.
neither would I haveI saw it new for $249 and couldn't resist.