 Sharon Barberee |
For Canon 300D Users...Help I will see if I can ask this in a non-confusing way. For those of you who use File Utility , I have noticed that some of my photos will show the red focus point, and other shots it will not be present. Why would it work on some shots and not on all? for the shots where it shows red the pictures are sharper but out of focus in the ones where the point is not visible in red......Thanks I am at a loss....
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Andrew Laverghetta |
When you're viewing the picture through the utility, it won't show the focus point if you set the camera to manual focus of if you never acieved correct focus. Do you shoot in RAW? I was just wondering if because I figure it will always have the focus points for RAW but I wasn't sure about JPEG. I think there's also a button to turn that focus stuff on or off. Anyway, since you say the ones without the red are out of focus, I'm assuming that the either the autofocus didn't have enough time or enough contrast at the focus point to focus properly or you tried to manual focus. Make sure that you see that the camera has focused properly. Hope this helps!
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Sharon Barberee |
I'm confused then. If your looking at utility veiwer , right below file, edit are several icons, the 6th one is a small rectangular shape, when you click on it while viewing photos it shows the red square from your focus points . What is this suppose to tell you if not where your camera focused. this is confusing even to try and write, lol. I wasnt shooting RAW , I do on occasion but not on this particular group of photos. I am having alot of trouble with focus. I cant decide if it is me, with DOF or My lens, which is a sigma 70-200 MM f2.8 Ex. Thanks for all your help ! I will try to post a couple of photos for you to compare to.
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Sharon Barberee |
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Andrew Laverghetta |
Possibly continuous focus? Did you use something like AI Focus/Servo? I'm not sure how the 300D works in terms of choosing the type of auto focus. If you used some kind of continuous focusing setting (or I guess sport mode) this might not register a single autofocus point. In some situations like what I said about manual focus where the camera doesn't know where it's focused, or with a sport mode where it's continuously focusing or using more that one focus point, or maybe the action was moving too fast and while it looked in focus, the camera wasn't actually able to get in focus because of low light. Are you able to go back and check what shutter speed you used? I think I've exhausted my thoughts as to the red focus point through the utility viewer. But what shutter speed did you use for this? Did you use a flash or does it just really look like it? The reason why I was wondering about the shutter speed is because the barrel looks to be in pretty good focus in both shots but sharper in the second picture. Possibly because of the darker horse an darker rider, the camera thought that you needed a longer shutter speed along with a flash so it froze the motion but the longer shutter speed could have blurred it a little? Hmm. Maybe it just didn't hold focus on the action completely for the first picture? If the action happened faster in the first picture (you'd have to be able to remember exactly) than the second picture, your shutter speed may not have been fast enough. Maybe around 1/350 second? It doesn't seem like this would be the biggest problem though because I would guess to round the barrel they would have to slow down considerably. Just keep your shutter speed as high as you can, avoid flash if you can (mostly because of the glare from animal "red" eye, and make sure to press the shutter as soon as you can after focus is made so the action doesn't have time to get out of the depth of focus zone. Again assuming that you're using a flash, maybe there's a way that you could get it further away from the lens like have somebody hold it on a wire or if you have two you might be able to trigger them through the IR beam if they can do that.
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