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    LF focus at night

    Ok. How do you do it? Any tips would be appreciated.

    John

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    Re: LF focus at night

    I carry a small LED light with me - a trick I learned on this forum. It can be placed somewhere in your desired focus plane to aid focus and composition, and then removed after everything is ready to go.

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    Re: LF focus at night

    Those fancy high powered green lasers attached to a flexible arm will work well too. Or get some monkeys to hold flashlights.

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    Re: LF focus at night

    You can glue fireflys to various things in the scene. The problem with monkeys is that they fling their poo.

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    Re: LF focus at night

    1 million candlepower spotlight.

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    Re: LF focus at night

    Focus in the day time and wait.
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    Re: LF focus at night

    Quote Originally Posted by Greg Lockrey View Post
    Focus in the day time and wait.
    You joke. I've actually done that!

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    Re: LF focus at night

    Those nice lazer sites that they make for firearms work well...sit one on something solid, turn it on, project a nice bright red dot on an appropriate spot in your scene. At night I can see the one on my S&W Centenial .38 Special a full block down the street (wonder if anybody in that house on the corner got upset about that??? No worry, I was gone long before that Cruiser went by. ) After you get your focus, turn off the dot and shoot with your camera instead of your gun!

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    Re: LF focus at night

    Quote Originally Posted by vinny View Post
    Those fancy high powered green lasers attached to a flexible arm will work well too. Or get some monkeys to hold flashlights.
    I've wondered about those green lasers! I see I'm not the only one who thought it might be a good idea! Have you tried it? Does it work fairly well? I may have to pick one up now

    I usually carry a flashlight with me, that's been doing ok so far, especially for closer objects.
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    Re: LF focus at night

    I'm with Ben Chase on this one. Although lasers are very much lighter and smaller, they are much less versatile than the remarkably inxpensive rechargable spotlights. I got mine from Harbor Freight but I've often seen them elsewhere.

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