tcthome Loc: NJ

As mentioned, check the diopter adjustment (if EVF has one) first. Do you know you can zoom in with EVF ?(Electronic View Finder) & also on the rear screen while in Live View & manually focus or touch where you want to focus. Might be hard to see the rear screen in bright sunlight. Anyway, check your camera manual on how to use these options while trying the options & have fun.

Thrill15

Eric sorry to hear about your cataract. Your 35mm sounds like it works great for you. I lost my eyesight in my non dominate eye when I was 33. The only explanation still today is inflammation. Unfortunately there is no cure. My left is strong and does all the heavy lifting. One of the worst problems is my depth perception in driving. I have a SUV and it helps to be up high. I don’t do much driving and then it’s highway or close to home. Oh and no night driving. Driving at night I can’t see hardly at all. Thank goodness my husband does most of the driving.

Thank you for replying and sharing your suggestions. I have received Sony really good tips. Take care Betty

MDI Mainer

For the OP. Sorry to be off topic, but who is that handsome Fox Terrier in your avatar?

Thrill15

You can Google him. Thrill of the Moment Hernandez Conrad our baby who is 12. A retired champion show dog. He was quite the dog when he was a pup here in the Midwest. I think he sired 8 pups and 6 are champs like him. He is really a good dog and was born in Mexico soi say he’s bilingual. Lol. We got him from friends here in St. Louis who breed them for showing. Needless to say he runs the household. Thanks for recognizing the breed. They really do make a great addition to the family.

photoman43

This may have been already posted. Consider using a lens with Manual Focus only. It may have a hyperfocal distance scale on it that will allow you to prefocus the lens and get a distance range in focus based on the f stop or aperture set for the image. And some cameras have focus peaking if manual focus is used.

On my Nikon mirrorless Z9 I now use focus peaking for almost all of my landscape images taken with prime lenses and do not use Auto Focus but focus the lens manually.

https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/nature-landscapes/how-to-use-focus-peaking-for-maximum-sharpness/

https://photographylife.com/why-hyperfocal-distance-charts-are-wrong

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My Pentax Q-7 doesn’t have a viewfinder so I use a Hoodman so I can see the rear LCD in bright sunlight.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

I know most every camera has "eye find", but you may want to start considering cameras with Artificial Intelligence. The Olympus/OMDS has AI that finds things like helmets, cars, planes, and birds and ignores other objects and things between you and the subject. These AI type cameras might help you but probably come at a price unless you go 4/3rds. It might be worthwhile renting a Nikon AI camera or OM-1 for a week and see if it helps you to shoot your subjects. If it helps, time for a Nikon AI camera.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

We never saw an example image posted with EXIF. We never saw an explanation of your focusing process, nor camera focusing mode. We never saw a reference to the lens(es) involved.

We saw a lot of guesses, many of them irrelevant to achieving sharply focused images using modern AF-capable digital cameras such as your Nikon Z7.

Have you received actionable and effective feedback that addresses your unknown problem? If no, consider providing one or more of the three requested actions in the first paragraph above.

MDI Mainer

My father had a Smooth Fox Terrier in Portugal before he came to the US, and he won best-in-show one year in Lisbon. He was called Troy (but I never knew his registered name), and somewhere I have his formal portrait my father had done, taken by the then leading photo studio in the city, with his ribbon next to him. So I recognized another champ right away.

OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919

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And thank you for the appreciative reply. Although I could use my original 35mm for film, my example was in the picking of an older lens not designed for auto focus if you wish to use the manual distance scale as it is longer and more accurate. Indeed inflammation of all types is recognized as a cause of much in older people. When a nephew remarked about an arthritic cripple, I though that since the cause was inflammation, I would simply take an anti-inflammatory as a prophylactic and began taking four aspirins/day and that was over forty years ago. I expect no doctor would ever agree? But I have no arthritis and I hope no inflammation problems hidden. I also have "high up cars/trucks." I hope you find a good pre-auto lens for manual focus.----Eric

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

My thoughts and prayers to you. I will write more about this in the future.

I am not a doctor. And, I can't promise that you will benefit from what helped me. I had a cataract in my left eye and one already started in my right one. I reluctantly accepted my declining vision as without remedy other than surgery. But, I also had arthritis in every joint of my fingers/hands/wrist/elbows and toes/plantar/heels/ankles and knees. Xrays proved osteo arthritis as the cause of the pain in each joint.

My arthritis Doctor offered no solution. But, my GP was a DO and suggested a plant based diet. She said that it had helped many others of her patients. And it might help me.

It was a big "ask" to give up meat, dairy, processed foods, eggs, cheese, etc., etc. But, the pain was relentless and even woke me up in my sleep. With my wife's help, I went 'plant based' - - - And all my arthritis pains and problems went away within the first month. (I was allergic to something in meat, dairy, processed food, etc.!! And this was the cause of my inflammation!!!)

I was still scheduled to undergo cataract surgery for my left eye. And I was told that my right eye would probably qualify for the same procedure within 6 months. - Well, about a year after being on a plant based diet, and a little before my scheduled cataract surgery, my eyes "cleared". I phoned my opthamologist and requested a new exam. She said my vision was again within the 20-20 range in both eyes and did not qualify for cataract surgery! (No one talks of clearing cataracts in your eyes. But, my eyes recovered from the effects of cataracts on a plant based diet!)

As to a fixed focus or similar lens..... If you go in this direction, I'd suggest you keep your autofocus feature turned on. You might need to keep you subject in the center of the image. And, a wide angle or wide angle zoom is likely to be the best match for this kind of photography. - - - Paul

OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919

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I have been using the N-Acetyl-Carnosine eye drops called in our markets---"CanC." I have used now six vials and have had some clearing around the edges but not much in the center. Fortunately my cataract is only in my right eye and therefor can still focus a camera with my left eye.

I do not have a meat diet--but do very much have a dairy diet of powdered milk and cheese.

Please relate in an exact manner your PLANT BASED DIET which reversed your cataracts. It would help many of us in our age bracket here on UHH. Thanks----Eric

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

I intend to write more details about what helped me in the hope that it might help others.

#1 - Listen to your body. Get 'clean' for a month. (No meat, no dairy/cheese, no processed foods, no salad dressings/etc., no canned soda, no alcohol) If you do try to 'test' a food or beverage that you have cut out, do it only one time. See what the result is the next day or few days.

If I "Cheat", I will feel the effects of something my body is allergic to within 12 hours, sometimes lasting for 3-5 days. What is a cheat? I ate a small chicken drumstick, no skin, no fat and not much meat. Air fried with no oil. Within 12 hours, I will feel discomfort or joint pain. Chicken is something I can not eat.

No one told me about a way to improve or eliminate my cataracts. I stuck with my plant based diet. I noticed that my stamina improved, my mental 'sharpness' improved, my attitude stayed positive. About 9-10 months into the diet, I began to notice my vision seemed to be clearing in both eyes. I didn't say anything to anyone. I had an eye exam for cataract surgery on my left eye and was told that my right eye would probably qualify for surgery in 6 months. A pre-surgery eye exam was required and taken. With about a month to go before my cataract surgery, I phoned my opthamologist for a re-exam and left a message that my vision had changed. She agreed and booked me for a follow up exam. I told her that I felt my cataract damaged vision had improved. She did her typical thorough exam, agreed that the cataracts were gone (she had never seen this before). My vision was nearly identical to what it was before the cataracts had begun "ripening". I can see well enough to drive a car without glasses. And I need 'reading glasses' for close up sharpness.

I just learned that about 50% of all people over 60 have inflammation/arthritis in their bodies. You can go the traditional medical route - diagnosis, medicines for the rest of your life, increasingly higher doses for controlling pain, swelling and disability, joint replacement, etc. Or you can think about inflammation as your body's screaming at you that something is causing this inflammation. Try to find the cause or causes and eliminate them!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

Probably, but, how is that going to help his focus issue?

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

Bebu,
Last time I checked, no medical doctor guarantees anything for a patient or potential one. I'm sharing how my impaired vision with cataracts in each eye were cleared for me.

In my first reply, I suggested to the OP that he can take photos using a wide angle lens or wide angle zoom and the autofocus features of camera/lens to assist for his failing vision.

I was not told about a possible reversal of cataract damage by going onto a plant based diet. I committed to this diet to help with arthritis pain that never left me, day or night. Going plant based eliminated my x-ray verified osteo arthritis pains within the first 30 days.

Having a clearing of my cataract damage began to occur about 9 months into my diet change. And, my vision was cleared of the cataracts, by an optometrist tests, at about 1 year on a plant based diet.

Could this possibly help this man? Or other UHH members who are suffering with cataract damage? Even one other person who benefits seems like a small "investment" in web space and what I felt was good intent.

What was your intent?