Focusing help

**steveo** · 16-Jun-2015, 14:21

Originally Posted by Drew Wiley

Yeah. I suspected the lens might have been uncoated. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Flare can be used creatively for certain images. But getting a more modern multicoated lens probably would have solved the wash-out problem in this case.

I'm keeping my eye out for a 180 fujinon to go with the 125 and 210. I'm not really a fan of 150 any way feels bit too inbetween.

**steveo** · 16-Jun-2015, 14:34

I don't like them nearly as much as the night shots and actually I'm less than convinced by the overall composition but this one is at least sharp and in focus at quite a large zoom. I took the advice further up and stopped down to f32 seems to have helped though I think I forgot about reciprocity so its a little under exposed and a bit grainy when big.

2015-05-FP4-LF001 by Steven, on Flickr

This one looks fine at web resolutions but has a general, even, softness about it when viewed large.

2015-05-FP4-LF002 by Steven, on Flickr

All in all another fairly disappointing outing. Four frames and nothing I'm all that happy with. I know I need to spend more time with the camera its just trying to find the time.