Horizontal and vertical lines and autofocus

sherman_levine said:

jlina said:

So if you are photographing a house, the camera will focus more on the front door? Or doors and windows that are vertical across your field of view? Trying to visualize real life examples of this. Thanks!

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Roger's example is an excellent one. In landscape orientation, If you're using the small focus box the camera will have much more difficulty focusing on a horizontal branch than on a vertical branch.

If you're trying to focus on the moon in landscape orientation, focus on a vertical edge, not at the top.

I've not tried it, but I suspect the camera doesn't focus well on an ocean horizon in landscape orientation, but if you rotate it 90 degrees it'll do nicely

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Zooker said:

sherman_levine said:

jlina said:

So if you are photographing a house, the camera will focus more on the front door? Or doors and windows that are vertical across your field of view? Trying to visualize real life examples of this. Thanks!

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Roger's example is an excellent one. In landscape orientation, If you're using the small focus box the camera will have much more difficulty focusing on a horizontal branch than on a vertical branch.

If you're trying to focus on the moon in landscape orientation, focus on a vertical edge, not at the top.

I've not tried it, but I suspect the camera doesn't focus well on an ocean horizon in landscape orientation, but if you rotate it 90 degrees it'll do nicely

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That correct Sherm. If I have difficulty finding focus with a seascape, I often find that by rotating the camera 90 degrees the autofocus more easily focuses on the horizon, then I half press the button and recompose.

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jlina said:

iZoom did okay here - only way I get the craters - horizontal vs vertical attached; the top row of craters look slightly different depending.....Thank you, Sherman!

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