How the Eye Focus woks? It sounds a great feature for portrait photography but I want to know if it works in real world.
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Eye AF is a detail-oriented focusing function that can prioritize a subject's pupil and dedicate focusing performance on that for sharply-rendered portraits. Please feel free to contact us at 800-991-3350 with any additional inquiries.
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It works pretty good not all the time. You have to be close to your subject to pick up the eye. If the eye is not picked up it will put a box around the head and keep the face in focus. works well. This camera is fantastic!!!
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Hi Elizabeth, Yes! Sorry for the delay in response. But remember this is semi telephoto so no close up portraiture. However if your subject was 25ft plus away and you wanted the "Bokeh" effect, {Blurred out back ground} it's awesome. I love this Len's for Video too which your camera does... Hope this helps
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You can look through the lens eye or look at the screen - it is not feasible to do both due to the design. The screen shows what you need to see and is very good at helping you focus on whatever it is you wish to capture.
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thanks. I come from an all manual 35mm background anyway, so I thnk you can get more creative images by honing your manual focus technique. The D60 has a Rangefinder function in the Menu which may be helpful in fine tuning your focus while using manual settings. The Range finder is an index scale that appears in the viewfinder. You can determine if you've focused in front of or behind the main subject. ( tough to use with a zoom lens , I think it may be more useful with a prime than that green dot thing)
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Well the button on top has a little graphic of a camera so I would say you use it to take snapshots while using it as a camera... I have never used it for that and most likely never will because I use a program called Many Cam and it lets me take snapshots right from my the software. As far as focus is concerned, it is fixed focus and so far I have not found any issues with it. Much better than Auto Focus for sure.... it seems to do fine up close and also with distance... but also remember it does not have any type of ZOOM.... I have had many cams and this one is by far the best for my needs and also the cheapest. Hope this helps.
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What Ed said. Also, once the subject is already in focus and you press the shutter button down all the way, and as long as you keep the camera steady and don't let the shutter button up all the way after taking your first shot, you can take continuous shots in focus without having to refocus every shot. Hope that makes sense.
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Yes, we did our family portrait and some professional portraits! My brother is a photographer and we used it with high quality lens, he really likes it! Def a geat camera!
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I have and it's great. Focus ring is incredibly smooth. Very well built lens!
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Wanted to let you all know that I decided on the D7000 and picked one up today. Couldn't be happier. Continuous autofocus during video shooting is useless on it, but I'm learning to manually focus, which is actually more rewarding for me; when shooting at f/1.8 you can get a very cinematic look focusing manually, even when you're chasing around your twin toddlers!
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Hi William. I was able to get better hand held pictures by increasing my shutter speed. Sometimes it is not convenient to carry a tripod when the objective is to find a bee on a flower. By the time you get set up, the object is gone. I have two good tripods and will use them when I have to. I really appreciate your insight on VR and how it doesn't help in macro photography. I feel a lot better about my lens now and am getting some really good detailed shots with it. Thanks again. Ken
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It's a great portrait lens. It will be wonderful on the a d40. I think that it really comes into it's own on fx though. That way you can really take advantage of the narrow depth of field as well as precise focus .
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It's optically great for portraits but it hunts annoyingly at portrait distances (as someone noted, not good "on the fly"). When convenient I prefer my 70 2.4 or my 50 1.4 SMC M (manual focus)..both are more conventional portrait lengths than the 35's.
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It has worked fine for me indoors, even without a flash, as long as I am not too far from my subject. If in a theater, with hundreds of heads bobing and weaving in front of you, the camera is not going to be able to auto focus, if you don't have a clear unobstructed view on the subject to lock the auto focus. But in those cases I have gone to manual focus with good results.
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Me too, I work either in Manual or with Aperture preselects on, the latter being the most convenient.I find the focusing the most challenging.
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It has a very small depth of focus. Best to stick with macro uses and keep a normal lense handy for regular photos.
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No, I've used my liveview mode on my d7000 to get a better idea of focus and then I've shot on a tripod. The portraits I've taken have been beautiful. If you have a lot of fast moving subjects, you may want to look at the Nikon 85mm f/1.8 autofocus.
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Bad one. Should just work smoothly. You should not notice it - except having to focus manually. ;)