Hiee Pals....
For those using this lens, i would like guys to try this out.
Setting your camera to manual focus, set your focus ring to 3m position.
Then in either P,A,S mode (with aperture minimal at f4), you could take a sharp wide shot without actually focussing that accurately for say a group shot within 2.5~5m from whare you ae standing (e.g a table shot of a wedding dinner of about 10seater round table) - covering the whole table with ppl seating around the table.
I actually just got back from across the causway for a wedding dinner task....and i tried this method and its really useful for candids too.
The focusing scale on the 17mm is like .....3m then goes to infinity. I realised that if you use AF, the focusing point due to the wide angle may be inaccurate at times and the focus locked between the 3m and the infinity mark...although what you see is sharp on the viewfinder due to the wideness....
So to prevent such off-focusses for my table shots.....hahah...i just put it into MF mode and set to 3m and stand far enough about that distance and shoot.....and guess what? 99.9% sharp!!!!! BTW...i shot at f4~f5.6 most of the time.
DO try this out....and let me know what you get...
For those using this lens, i would like guys to try this out.
Setting your camera to manual focus, set your focus ring to 3m position.
Then in either P,A,S mode (with aperture minimal at f4), you could take a sharp wide shot without actually focussing that accurately for say a group shot within 2.5~5m from whare you ae standing (e.g a table shot of a wedding dinner of about 10seater round table) - covering the whole table with ppl seating around the table.
I actually just got back from across the causway for a wedding dinner task....and i tried this method and its really useful for candids too.
The focusing scale on the 17mm is like .....3m then goes to infinity. I realised that if you use AF, the focusing point due to the wide angle may be inaccurate at times and the focus locked between the 3m and the infinity mark...although what you see is sharp on the viewfinder due to the wideness....
So to prevent such off-focusses for my table shots.....hahah...i just put it into MF mode and set to 3m and stand far enough about that distance and shoot.....and guess what? 99.9% sharp!!!!! BTW...i shot at f4~f5.6 most of the time.
DO try this out....and let me know what you get...