08-13-2010, 07:12 AM
[quote name='Etao' timestamp='1281632113' post='1720']
By the way, how were people focusing without live view ? I mean, during film era ?
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Back in that time, all lenses had a distance scale ... so it was quite easy to focus
on something far away daytimes, and just take a note of what the distance scale
displays ... even at that time there were lenses that would focus past infinity ... typically
long tele lenses.
Later on (in the dark), you just set the lens to the value you noted daytimes and trusted
in this.
at least ... that's what I did.
By the way, how were people focusing without live view ? I mean, during film era ?
[/quote]
Back in that time, all lenses had a distance scale ... so it was quite easy to focus
on something far away daytimes, and just take a note of what the distance scale
displays ... even at that time there were lenses that would focus past infinity ... typically
long tele lenses.
Later on (in the dark), you just set the lens to the value you noted daytimes and trusted
in this.
at least ... that's what I did.