Hi all,
I just got a Bessa R4m and Nokton 40mm f1.4 from Chiif and have been trying it out over the last few days. A beautiful piece of kit!
I would just like to know how others out there using this lens achieve the fastest possible manual focus. Does one,
1. Pre-focus to an estimated distance to the subject, move in for the shoot at the estimated distance and fine tune the focus again if need be.
2. As above but fine tuning by physically moving your body forward or back.
or
3. Move in for the shoot and then acheive focus manually.
I always end up doing no.3 and my fingers fumble for the lens focusing lever. I still need practice getting my fingers to automatically adjust to the focusing lever of this lens whenever i bring it up to eye level. In fact while typing this out, it just occured to me that I should just practice getting my fingers onto the focus lever before the camera comes up to eye level! Nevertheless I am still keen to hear how you guys do it.
Cheers
Martin
I just got a Bessa R4m and Nokton 40mm f1.4 from Chiif and have been trying it out over the last few days. A beautiful piece of kit!
I would just like to know how others out there using this lens achieve the fastest possible manual focus. Does one,
1. Pre-focus to an estimated distance to the subject, move in for the shoot at the estimated distance and fine tune the focus again if need be.
2. As above but fine tuning by physically moving your body forward or back.
or
3. Move in for the shoot and then acheive focus manually.
I always end up doing no.3 and my fingers fumble for the lens focusing lever. I still need practice getting my fingers to automatically adjust to the focusing lever of this lens whenever i bring it up to eye level. In fact while typing this out, it just occured to me that I should just practice getting my fingers onto the focus lever before the camera comes up to eye level! Nevertheless I am still keen to hear how you guys do it.
Cheers
Martin