Am i the only one who is having problems hitting focus with 85mm

>>2937913
Dude, resize your shit.

>>2937913
master single point and reframe.

Otherwise, it's the curse of a thin depth of field. Other lenses farther up the chain suffer the same problems.

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nope
rangefinder is quick and accurate

Nah dude little magnified square with focus confirmation

>>2937913
Get a sony, their focus detection is on sensor so it never misses focus, and it has an "eye af" mode that locks onto eyes. Their 85mm f1. 4 gm is the best af lens in the world.

got any photos of her turd cutter in focus?

>>2937913
Are you doing this?
>>2937938
>master single point and reframe.

Because if you are that's probably your issue.
Or you are just not paying attention to what's showing as focussed when you shoot, and paying too much attention to it after the fact.
Also, standard focusing screens are really only good for eyeballing focus on lenses up to about f/2.8, after that you need a high contrast screen or *shudder* split hemisphere/prisms

>>2937913
Not really a problem with focus peaking and/or AF with face / eye detection (ya, I'm on Sony).

Or the AF point moved onto face or just focus & recompose (what can be done on cameras that don't have either function).

Oh, dont listen to people saying focus and recompose, that's a great way to ensure you miss focus.
>hurr, ive got about an inch deep focal plane, let's focus, then MOVE THE CAMERA
Fucking dildoes.
Move your focus point, or use liveview.

>>2937913
http://pseudosticky.wikia.com/wiki/Pseudo_sticky#Petzval_field_curvature_-_Why_focus_and_recompose_sucks

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>>2938068
That said: I focus and recompose all the time, especially when using telephoto. But I also almost never use the centre focus point. If you understand what it does and why it's fairly trivial to work with it anyway. Less trivial with really fast lenses wide open.

>>2938045
that is exactly my concern with focusing and recomposing.
Thing is even if i put my focus on where it needs to be, for example an eye even then it misses a lot of times, focuses on eye lash, or back focuses somehow. using nokon d800

>>2938045
>crutch autofocus
>doing this with a split prism focusing screen
durrrrrrrrr hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>2938073

That's an exaggeration unless you're regularly taking photos from 4 feet away, the further away you are the smaller the angular change. Also the image raised the camera in the second photo to exaggerate the change and lengthened the green line.

>>2938808
This. Telecreep of all people should understand, his 'subjects' are always 10 metres away at least.
>>2938073
Additionally, the plane of focus almost always curves inward away from the centre with lenses wide and fast enough for the theoretical difference to matter.

>>2938045
The only time you should ever be shooting wide-open, at least with fast primes, is in low-light situations. The wide-open portraiture kiddos are using all the creamy bokeh that can be had as a crutch to hide their lack of talent as a photographer.

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>>2938821
>wide and fast enough for the theoretical difference to matter.
>85mm/1.8
try to keep up

>always 10 metres away at least.

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With focus and recompose, If you do it enough and use manual focus, you just naturally compensate that tiny little hair needed to hit focus most of the time. Usually just leaning in or back rather than touching the focus. It becomes natural.


If you shoot f1.2, then you need to take multiples. You won't hit every shot perfectly.

Fuck phase AF for such critical applications. Fuck it with a rusty beer can.

Lucky enough to have EVF? Then you don't miss... But you need to compose then focus rather than focus and compose. This takes a bit of practice and a fairly static scene or keeping one eye on the scene and one in the EVF.

>>2938863
Dof is a creative choice faggot

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No problems here.

It's just you.

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I haven't had this problem since the first day I used a mirrorless camera. I can shoot at f1.2 all day no problem. I've been thinking about a chinesium 0.95 for that stopped down 1.4 action

>>2939951
Your photos are so shit