Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Now Prefestor you were doing so well, then you start to degrees in name calling a trying to belittle people. Proving again that you are nothing more that a Troll on med's. You claim your an educator. I doubt it. I have never meet any professional that will allow himself such childish levels you have achieved on this site.

Oh and by the way, I take you up on your offer to post links about my girl friend and those other foolish raves you stated.

What surprises me, you can sometimes be so constructive.. I would strongly suggest your try boxers instead of briefs.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Since you don't have the manual, apparently you need quite a bit explained.


"The bottom button"???? There are no such buttons. There is one dial, which is probably what you are referring to. I'm not sure whether that was what the OP meant, or if he was just telling us the location of the manually selected focus point. It doesn't make any difference!

What you are claiming is unlikely, and nearly impossible. He would have to activate Auto Focus and then move the camera far enough to cause the focus point to be changed to an adjacent point. That is the way Dynamic Area focus works if and only if he is using AF-C. There is no reason to use AF-C, as the subject is stationary. There is no reason to enable AF and then move the camera far enough to cause a change in the focus point. And such a scenario is exceedingly unlikely.


An absurd assessment of composition. That grasshopper is too small to be "the object" of attention all by itself. The entire flower that it is sitting on isn't really large enough either, but might at least work.

He needs more DOF if that scene, at that distance with that focal length, is to provide a decent photograph. Photography 101.


Granted the grasshopper should have been the focus point, but it is not the only object of note. It is the center of the area of note! The camera did not select the leaf, it selected some other point that is on the same plane as the leaf. It appears the high contrast edge of the pedal behind the grasshopper may have been the specific object focused on. Every Nikon user manual (and probably every book that has ever discussed using Auto Focus) explains the problem of too much fine detail or too much high contrast detail that is on different planes but is within area seen by the "focus point". AF cannot decide which plane the photographer wants. In this case the objects in the scene that the "focus point" is viewing are on a plane oblique to the sensor. It seems to have chosen the highest contrast detail to focus on. (See page 70 of the D300 User Manual for a very simplified discussion.)


You really would prefer if people left your nonsense alone in a "fools forum" all your own, wouldn't you. You are welcome to your opinion, but so is everyone else. Every single article of yours has contained at least one attempt at this sort of Ad Hominem, which logically suggests that you know already, and very clearly, that what you are saying is not logically sound and cannot be supported.

Mark7829 Loc: Calfornia

I am done..(Bill H. says we are done) The OP miss-selected the AF mode - selector on the back of the camera. He even said so himself and agreed that was the problem. It can not be simpler. At this point contact the OP and talk with him directly.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Cite everyone else if you like, but you are the one who failed to make a valid point.


Another fabrication on your part.


The simple part is that what you have said is simply not valid.

TomV Loc: Annapolis, Maryland

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The flower photo has a lot of clutter that will fool your focus spots and the system will choose an average focal plane which happens to be behind your intended insect. The DOF is shallow because of the combo of fstop and subject distance, thus relegating the insect out of focus. Simply moving your position/angle to the left may have improved things by changing the focus spots relative to the insect. Just backing up will increase the DOF with the same camera/lens settings.