I keep reading about people who can no longer see well enough to focus their
manual slr's or rangefinders. At my age I suppose it is likely coming soon
for me as well, but I dread the day. I own only two autofocus cameras, the
Oly Epic 2.8 and C5050, and the most frustrating part of them is the
percentage of out of focus shots.
How is it that autofocus works so well for some, but not for me? I am
wondering if it is shooting stlye. I don't shoot many sports or moving
targets, where autofocus definitely would have the edge because of focus
speed, but I do shoot close-ups, and wide aperture selective focus, and
focus on things out of center of the frame, etc. But then, with my two
autofocus cameras, it is mostly just straight forward simple shots that the
cameras foul up on. And you can never seem to predict when they are going to
give you that slightly,or worse, out of focus next shot.
I know you can spot focus/meter with the Epic, but it is such a round about
path to get there, that it is much quicker and easier for me to just use the
35RC. As to manual focus on the C5050 for the difficult situations.......
well, when you can no longer see to focus an OM, you are way past any hope
of manually focusing with it.
On another note, after reading some on the web about shooting fireworks with
digital, and viewing some of their sample pics online, I decided to keep
with the progressing times, and took the C5050 to try it a few evenings ago.
How did it go? Well, for starters there is enough complications to remember,
and camera settings to fiddle with, that it keeps your mind totally on the
photography experience, so you don't get distracted by the fireworks. In
comparison, when I used to shoot fireworks with the OM1n, the actual
photography was almost boring. It was just too simple. Photography is the
goal, not watching fireworks, right? And I've proven for myself that I can
capture fireworks on digital. And, as you know, as they say about digital,
it doesn't cost anything to experiment, even a lot. So it didn't cost me
anything for film or developing. With fireworks, normally I'd have to pay
for developing at least a roll of 36 slides, and only about 20 of them would
be keepers. With digital, I shot really a lot of frames! More photography is
better. With the ones that didn't come out, just delete. It's so simple to
delete, and no cost. Now, where was that web site I found with all those
little shots of fireworks from prosumer digi-cameras? I got 2 shots that
might be worthy of posting, at about the size of a credit card.
Wayne
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