A95 MF distance settings. (1 Viewer)

john-henry · Feb 17, 2005

Have just bought an A95 so still feeling my way around it.
Has anyone come up with a way around the manual focus distance setting, it is a bit of a "pain in the *" having to run through the two scales to get to infinity when a bird is sitting in front of you.
First impressions are it's going to be a great camera for digiscoping, it has everything needed for good quality shots, just a few settings need sorting for speedier use.
I'm finding the easiest way to use it at the moment is to put the settings you use most in C mode and work from there.

John-henry

alan_rymer · Feb 17, 2005

John-henry

Try using the scope to focus, not the camera!.

john-henry · Feb 18, 2005

A95 MF distance settings

alan_rymer said:
John-henry

Try using the scope to focus, not the camera!.

Alan , thanks for your reply - I've sorted the problem now and got infinity distance locked into C mode in MF.

Re. focusing only with the scope, you would never be able to follow a moving bird as the camera would be on and off the scope everytime it moved.
I find if you focus the bird in the scope to start with then switch to MF with the camera distance setting at infinity you can keep the bird in focus fairly easily using the scope only. But what I have also found is if you focus with the scope to start with and switch to MF the bird will not be in focus until the camera is given some idea of the distance it should focus at - altering the focus on the scope at this time is not going to help - I find by running the MF distance scale up to infinity gives good results with just some fine tuning with the scope.

ps. I noticed your thread about someone listing the parts etc. for making your own battery pack, I'd greatly appreciate a copy of it if you have any luck. Thanks for your help Alan.

regards
john-henry

alan_rymer · Feb 19, 2005

john-henry said:
Alan , thanks for your reply - I've sorted the problem now and got infinity distance locked into C mode in MF.

Re. focusing only with the scope, you would never be able to follow a moving bird as the camera would be on and off the scope everytime it moved.
I find if you focus the bird in the scope to start with then switch to MF with the camera distance setting at infinity you can keep the bird in focus fairly easily using the scope only. But what I have also found is if you focus with the scope to start with and switch to MF the bird will not be in focus until the camera is given some idea of the distance it should focus at - altering the focus on the scope at this time is not going to help - I find by running the MF distance scale up to infinity gives good results with just some fine tuning with the scope.

ps. I noticed your thread about someone listing the parts etc. for making your own battery pack, I'd greatly appreciate a copy of it if you have any luck. Thanks for your help Alan.

regards
john-henry

Hmm

I will have to try that!.

The battery pack I posted about was for the Kyocera SL400r, not the Canon.
Sorry!.

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