I read "Focusing the View Camera" but find it hard to actually use out in the fi eld, especially in judging distances and where the plane of sharp focus resides. Basically, I take mostly landscape pictures and I've been only using the view camera for about 6 months. Yesterday I was trying to get a scene focused from c lose to far and was never successful. I was using a Fuji 450C and was trying to get a wheat field in front of my lens into focus while holding infinity at focu s too. Basically, the scene was two rows of wind turbines in a field of wheat i n gently sloping terrain. The closest wind turbine was a little less than a 1/4 mile away (i.e., not quite at infinity for this lens but close) and the rest st reched into the distance. The wind turbines are about 90 feet tall. I'm sure a s you move into longer focal lengths it gets tougher to get everything into focu s, but I would still think you could get a little more things into focus than wi th a fixed lens. What am I doing wrong? Should I use my Nikor 300M lense inste ad? I could go as low as 150mm , but the wind turbines would look pretty darn s mall, and they would loose their perspective focus. Any suggestions would be gr eatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
...Wade...
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