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Originally Posted by Mr Guy
You'll get better with practice, but keep in mind distance plays a major role.
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
If you're very close and your lens is super wide open, your depth of field really IS razor thin. Perfectly focused on eyes from four feet away is going to put the tip of most noses out of focus. If you're testing on a book from a minimal focus distance away, you're lucky to get multiple LETTERS in focus. Doing it manually versus automatically isn't going to change any of that. It's just the maths involved! |
Thanks for the link. I have tried to do the math on paper but I was never able to visualize it and this website has a diagram so thats very helpful!! I will try practicing with these rules in mine (and maybe a tape measure
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