Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Moore wrote: > > 1999-12-15-23:14:33 Julian Koplen: > > I find I can focus on something with shine or > > glimmer to it, but a child's face is more difficult to hit spot on. I often > > vary by a foot or two when I try to repeat focus on the same face from about > > 12 feet. > > So... let me be really annoying and suggest that you give up focusing > on faces and try something more Ted-like: focus on an eyeball within > the face! There's that nice sharp pupil-to-white transition you can > concentrate on... > > If it seems impossible... practice some more. I think lots of people go for eyelashes or eyebrows in that order. They are the easiest and most needful of being sharp in the first place. When I check sharpness with a loupe I check for individual eyelash hairs instead of a fuzzy line of all of them. The forest for the trees you might say except the other way around. That is what I think I am focusing on. In a full length shot when I get individual eyelash hairs I think I am doing pretty well. I expect than from Leica and get it. On a 105 2.5 Nikkor I get it. And I get it with Delta 400 in Xtol but can just about get it from Tri X in Xtol or Rodinol. (Full length shot). With slower films I want to see the spit ends on the ends of the eyelashes (exaggeration!). Mark Rabiner