04-28-2012, 04:00 PM
Sekan, I am not talking about images like yours. I am only addressing classic landscapes where there is a foreground, midground and background. Like the type that Fred what's his name was trying to find focus on in the middle of the night.
I really don't care what people use. But I will go into a huff when people start to believe, and more importantly, try to make others believe that using LV in complete darkness to find some non-existing magical focus point is a mark of a great photographer.
As I said in another thread you can put a 10 stop ND filter on a camera like the D800 and the focus system will still work. So even if you are using only a manual focus lens - in near complete darkness - the green light will still come on. Not only that, the D800 has the left and right arrows (like say the F100) which helps you fine tune the focusing to lock in the green button.
"one can apply MF more precisely when needed"
Absolutely. But it is not needed for the types of shots that Fred is talking about.
And BTW, it was Harold Merklinger who introduced it to popular photography.
I really don't care what people use. But I will go into a huff when people start to believe, and more importantly, try to make others believe that using LV in complete darkness to find some non-existing magical focus point is a mark of a great photographer.
As I said in another thread you can put a 10 stop ND filter on a camera like the D800 and the focus system will still work. So even if you are using only a manual focus lens - in near complete darkness - the green light will still come on. Not only that, the D800 has the left and right arrows (like say the F100) which helps you fine tune the focusing to lock in the green button.
"one can apply MF more precisely when needed"
Absolutely. But it is not needed for the types of shots that Fred is talking about.
And BTW, it was Harold Merklinger who introduced it to popular photography.