NON-TRIPOD support for long lens

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ASAAR wrote:
> On Fri, 06 May 2005 00:04:56 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>
>>>Here's what I do in similar situations. I - approximately - focus the
>>>digicam. Then I extend the digicam as far from me as possible, bracing
>>>it against the neck strap as I fine-focus it. Works great.
>>
>>And just how do you do this 'fine focusing'? I hope you are putting us on.
>
>
> That sounds similar to the instructions provided for manually
> focusing my Fuji. It says to first use AF (single, not continuous)
> to get the lens' focus reasonably close, switch to MF and adjust
> manually, which seems to be a very "fine" adjustment. I once forgot
> to use AF first. I'll NEVER do that again. Really makes me
> appreciate the manual focusing of the lenses on my old Nikon film
> cameras.
>
Meanwhile, what you wanted to photograph has long since flown away, run
away, of passed on down the road. I like auto-focus, or better yet,
focus at infinity and forget it for scenery.
--
Ron Hunter rphunter@charter.net

 

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On Fri, 06 May 2005 18:58:47 -0400, Ron Hunter <Ron
Hunter@echoforum.com> wrote:

> Meanwhile, what you wanted to photograph has long since flown away, run
> away, of passed on down the road. I like auto-focus, or better yet,
> focus at infinity and forget it for scenery.

Have you noticed that this ng has been inundated for many hours by
a large number of duplicate messages? At first I thought my
newreader's database had become corrupted, as the messages didn't
appear in reasonable positions in the thread tree. I checked this
ng with another newsreader, pulling messages from a different news
server and the problem existed there too. The bogus messages were
not exact duplicates, as some changes were visible in the headers:

[the original]
> From: Ron Hunter <rphunter@charter.net>
> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050321)
> Subject: Re: NON-TRIPOD support for long lens
> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 21:40:49 -0500
> References: <six Message IDs listed here>
> In-Reply-To: <ua7n71hba55h3ias1ef2lc4u2952l6n959@4ax.com>

[the clone]
> From: Ron Hunter <Ron Hunter@echoforum.com>
> User-Agent: <this header was missing>
> Subject: NON-TRIPOD support for long lens
> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 18:58:47 -0400
> References: <this header was also missing>
> In-Reply-To: <this header was also missing>
> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com
> Organization: UseNetServer.com

 

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"ASAAR" <caught@22.com> wrote in message
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> snippage

> Have you noticed that this ng has been inundated for many hours by
> a large number of duplicate messages?

And here I thought I was losing my mind...believe me...I *have* noticed.

WW

 

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On Sat, 07 May 2005 15:09:23 GMT, WormWood wrote:

>> Have you noticed that this ng has been inundated for many hours by
>> a large number of duplicate messages?
>
> And here I thought I was losing my mind...believe me...I *have* noticed.

I'm surprised it hasn't generated a thread or two, but at least it
seems to finally have been fixed.