Kudos to LensAlign Part 2
Jun 24, 2015 09:26:34 #
Jun 24, 2015 09:38:28 #
Don't understand the sidetracking here. Fine tuning a lens is essential regardless of the rest of the "how" involved in obtaining the best bird shot. Bob
Jun 24, 2015 10:04:16 #
BobR wrote:
Don't understand the sidetracking here. Fine tuning a lens is essential regardless of the rest of the "how" involved in obtaining the best bird shot. Bob
Thank you Bob.
Jun 24, 2015 16:50:43 #
Kkona3
Loc: Northern California
I apologize for getting into this conversation late, but I don't know what lens alignment is, or fine tuning of a lens, for that matter. Please explain.
Jun 24, 2015 17:01:31 #
kkona3 wrote:
I apologize for getting into this conversation late, but I don't know what lens alignment is, or fine tuning of a lens, for that matter. Please explain.
Watch this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljHgSbW7Ykg
Jun 24, 2015 18:22:52 #
Kkona3
Loc: Northern California
Thanks. I've learned a lot from that video and need to research this more.
Jun 24, 2015 18:51:24 #
wiselee
Loc: Henderson,NV.
May I ask how you set up your zoom lens to use Lens -Align? Did you align with no zoom or fully zoomed? I have a Lens- Align but from what I read it didn't sound like aligning a zoom was really encouraged. The demo video I watched was using a fixed lens.
Glad you were successful in getting your's aligned.
Glad you were successful in getting your's aligned.
Jun 24, 2015 19:39:35 #
wiselee wrote:
May I ask how you set up your zoom lens to use Lens -Align? Did you align with no zoom or fully zoomed? I have a Lens- Align but from what I read it didn't sound like aligning a zoom was really encouraged. The demo video I watched was using a fixed lens.Glad you were successful in getting your's aligned.
First off, my lens is a prime, not a zoom. Below is the answer to your question regarding zoom lenses.
https://mtd.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727380-
Jun 24, 2015 20:13:45 #
Sorry... not in agreement here. Everybody seems to think the lens align created a more focused image.
The second image, without lens align, presuming these are identical images otherwise, indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.
The second image, without lens align, presuming these are identical images otherwise, indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.
Jun 24, 2015 20:48:31 #
[quote=Kuzano
The second image, ... indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.[/quote]
What?
The second image, ... indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.[/quote]
What?
Jun 25, 2015 06:14:50 #
Kuzano wrote:
Sorry... not in agreement here. Everybody seems to think the lens align created a more focused image.
The second image, without lens align, presuming these are identical images otherwise, indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.
The second image, without lens align, presuming these are identical images otherwise, indicates by it's slightly larger file size to be more in focus than the image using the lens align.
More pixels in the file = more focus detail.
The idea of Fine Tuning the lens/camera combo is to adjust WHERE the camera focuses. This is not a function of the file size. As an example: Picture 4 birds standing one behind the other. I focus on the 4th bird and the photo produced shows the 3rd bird in perfect focus, and the 4th bird not so in focus. This has nothing to do with file size. In this case, the camera/lens combo "Front Focused". We are dealing with small differences in the focus point. The bird's head in the Fine Tuned image is not sharper because of the number of pixels (which is fewer), it is sharper because the focus point is closer to where I actually focused the shot - on the bird's head. I hope this clears things up for you.
Jun 25, 2015 08:30:43 #
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