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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: stamper on February 08, 2010, 04:39:20 am

Title: ND filter
Post by: stamper on February 08, 2010, 04:39:20 am

I recently bought a four stop ND filter. When it is placed in front of the lens everything appears darker as I expected. My question is would it be better to use manual focus or would autofocus be adequate? TIA

Title: ND filter
Post by: brianrybolt on February 08, 2010, 04:48:42 am

Quote from: stamper

I recently bought a four stop ND filter. When it is placed in front of the lens everything appears darker as I expected. My question is would it be better to use manual focus or would autofocus be adequate? TIA

I would approach it by focusing first either manual or auto and then put on the filter.  Experiment!

Brian

Title: ND filter
Post by: DaveJ on February 08, 2010, 01:15:19 pm

Quote from: stamper

I recently bought a four stop ND filter. When it is placed in front of the lens everything appears darker as I expected. My question is would it be better to use manual focus or would autofocus be adequate? TIA

If you have live view, you can focus that way without a dark image.
Dave

Title: ND filter
Post by: stamper on February 09, 2010, 03:34:13 am

Quote from: DaveJ

If you have live view, you can focus that way without a dark image.
Dave

Thanks for that idea. I hadn't considered that because on the d300 you can't use live view and the timer. I will try it without the timer because now I have a remote release.