Why is focus important?
Nov 10, 2023 11:55:13 #
Tote1940 wrote:
Let’s face it, digitals with their amazingly sensitive sensors have one up over chemical photo.
We can get away shooting at ISO values impossible with film.
Digitized quite a few feet of Super 8 ASA 400 fastest available and grain very coarse.
Tried some monochrome 8 mm ASA 1000 but were not grains, more like boulders
My Z50 captures with tolerable noise over ISO 2000
We can get away shooting at ISO values impossible with film.
Digitized quite a few feet of Super 8 ASA 400 fastest available and grain very coarse.
Tried some monochrome 8 mm ASA 1000 but were not grains, more like boulders
My Z50 captures with tolerable noise over ISO 2000
The variable ISO aspect of digital gives lots of opportunities to correct to the situation. But, even more, I'm a fan of shooting unlimited digital frames to assure at least one will prove the keeper when analyzed later.
Nov 12, 2023 17:52:01 #
13 wrote:
Your header was "Why is focus important? To me, it's akin to looking at something without your specs on and the blinking you do to try to bring the scene into focus. I think that as long as there is some small area in the photo that is in focus, sometimes the whole shot works.
Nov 13, 2023 11:08:54 #
DebAnn wrote:
Your header was "Why is focus important? To me, it's akin to looking at something without your specs on and the blinking you do to try to bring the scene into focus. I think that as long as there is some small area in the photo that is in focus, sometimes the whole shot works.
I'm in a sometimes 'yes', most times 'no' on this issue. When looking at an image, the viewer's eye should fall where the photographer intended. In the case of this example, the eyes will / should fall on the center of the flower. Alas, that's no where near in focus. It doesn't matter where else there might be sharp focus in this example, because the viewer's eyes don't go there.
I have some other examples in my mind where maybe the 'viewer sees it differently', in that the subject is in sharp focus, just maybe not the first place to look. I'd have to find such an example to 'prove', as my memory hasn't been working as efficiently nor accurately of late ...
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