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Originally Posted by daft_biker
That gives you out of focus shots, particularly at wide aperertures on SLRs.
Say I used the centre point to focus on a model's eyes and then tilted the camera down the point of focus would now be behind where I wanted it. Unless you are using a tilt and shift lens the plane of focus is parallel to the film plane (or the sensor).....tilt the camera and you tilt the plane of focus.
In my opinion correct technique on a SLR would be manually focussing or using a focus point in the right place.
Focus and recompose has it's uses but using a 50mm at wide apertures on DSLR isn't one of them.
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Is this true for practically any lens? For example, an 18-55mm IS kit lens?
If so, what you're saying is to select the proper focus point (i.e. if you have 9 points, select the one closest to what you want in focus), vs. focusing at center then repositioning camera to the composition you want. Yes??
Second question is...if you manually focus from 2 ft. away, how can you tell if the eyes are the sharpest focus vs. the nose, for example? It's not necessarily easy to tell in the viewfinder. What do you do then?
Thanks and good thread.
