Quick question

B0rG

I saw the guy the other day with a big old camera. As he was taking pictures I didn't hear any autofocus confirmation beep. So I'm still wondering how he manages to get stuff into focus without autofocus beep?

rymus

groan...

DaireQuinlan

aww, you crazy kids nowadays with your 'autofocus' and 'digital sensors'. What's the world coming too !

Assuming you're actually being serious, if its a large format camera he probably focuses and composes on some sort of ground glass screen before putting in the film. If its an SLR of some sort then chances are there's a split screen on the viewfinder which provides your focus point for you, or he could just be playing it by ear.

elven

Is this just because it's friday?

rymus

DaireQuinlan wrote:

Assuming you're actually being serious

I'd say that's your first mistake there now...

B0rG

DaireQuinlan wrote:

aww, you crazy kids nowadays with your 'autofocus' and 'digital sensors'. What's the world coming too !

Assuming you're actually being serious, if its a large format camera he probably focuses and composes on some sort of ground glass screen before putting in the film. If its an SLR of some sort then chances are there's a split screen on the viewfinder which provides your focus point for you, or he could just be playing it by ear.

But seriously - how he could get stuff into focus without autofocus?

FreeAnd..

thank crunchie...

digitalage

manual focus

magicbastarder

i saw a guy the other day installing what must be a new form of digital CCD into his camera - it was flexible, and came in a little metal canister.

B0rG

digitalage wrote:

manual focus

Does it mean you actually have to look into viewfinder?

Fajitas!

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/how-to-focus.html

B0rG

Fajitas! wrote:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/how-to-focus.html

errr
insightfull...

digitalage

Borg with all your ravin about Ansel Adams I was pretty sure you new he was a master of view cameras and would have know that these cameras have no autofocus and how they work...that link Fahitas explains the ways to focus these cameras, so I don't know how you find it insightfull....maybe not enough maths in there for you....

B0rG

digitalage wrote:

Borg with all your ravin about Ansel Adams I was pretty sure you new he was a master of view cameras and would have know that these cameras have no autofocus and how they work...that link Fahitas explains the ways to focus these cameras, so I don't know how you find it insightfull....maybe not enough maths in there for you....

respect for Adams defo

5uspect

Also you can turn the beep off on a digital camera too, I just use the little green spot in the viewfinder, the beep is annoying.

mikeanywhere

B0rG wrote:

But seriously - how he could get stuff into focus without autofocus?

Always get someone else to do it for you!!

Valentia

B0rG wrote:

I saw the guy the other day with a big old camera. As he was taking pictures I didn't hear any autofocus confirmation beep. So I'm still wondering how he manages to get stuff into focus without autofocus beep?

He has a remote cable stuck up his ar$e, a blue tooth sensor in his contact lenses. When focus is reached the contacts send a signal to the remote cable through a wallet type receiver in his back pocket. On focus, then, he receives a mild electric shock, thereby knowing that it is safe to take the photograph. Obvious, I would have thought, but there you go.

Oriel

B0rg are you actually being serious?

Alun

sinecurea wrote:

B0rg are you actually being serious?

I think it's fairly obvious he isn't ... what's Russian for 'trolling'?

B0rG

Valentia wrote:

He has a remote cable stuck up his ar$e, a blue tooth sensor in his contact lenses. When focus is reached the contacts send a signal to the remote cable through a wallet type receiver in his back pocket. On focus, then, he receives a mild electric shock, thereby knowing that it is safe to take the photograph. Obvious, I would have thought, but there you go.

Hmm... why didn't I think of it?

Covey

B0rG wrote:

Hmm... why didn't I think of it?

Prize for the best answer :cool:

B0rG

Covey wrote:

Prize for the best answer :cool:

tried to be sillyarse but nobody bought it...

melekalikimaka

....how did that question get two pages?

B0rG

Well I was kinda expecting at least 4, but it looks like winter is no good time for flaming...