Zone Focusing for Dummies 

hahaha, i'm glad this will help. And through my experience, the faster you shoot, the more you end up doing it and being alone :) Hashtag The Lone Shooter. Sorry, to the Mrs.

No worries!! If you stay tuned, within the next couple of weeks, I will drop a video on "focus by feel," where you don't depend on zone focusing, you can do it through intuition, muscle memory, and feel :) Next level shit haha.

@@jaeAre200 Hell yeah bro, I just copped a leica Q - went from fuji to sony in seek of full frame cause leica seemed too overpriced for me, but I made the plunge on a great deal for the Q and so glad I did, I'm a huge fan of the analog/retro style of cameras. Haven't gone out to play yet with it but I wanted to learn as much as I could about manual focusing cause I want to prioritize that from now on for my street shooting. How do you incorporate your zone focusing at night? That could be another video. Btw, I saw you in one of lintaro's old videos a while back, nice to see you doing your own thing my man.

No problem brotha. I greatly appreciate your time and comment. Sometime down the road I'll make a "focus by feel" video.

Martin Henson Yes, Exactly Martin. He is talking about the hyperfocal distance mostly use in Landscape Photography.

@@aungwinhtut6028so what is the difference between what he is showing and zone focus?

The difference is almost semantics. And why I PERSONALLY feel there are good teachers and not so good teachers because one stresses overall comprehension of an idea vs little details to stress that don't play much signficance in the overall-understanding. The difference is simply using the infinity marker as your end point ("HyPeRFOcal DisTAncE") (as I start beginners off with in the beginning of the video) and then ultimately moving your "end point" or "zone" to the F Stop given ie F16 or F8 on the lens to whatever distance suits your needs (where I eventually move the discussion in the video when there is less light to give proper exposure. So maybe they didn't watch the entire video???) thats it!! haha. It's actually laughable how negligeable it is, when you know the difference. And if you physically show someone the difference on the lens between the 2, you would look like an idiot for even stressing the difference.

That's not at all true. Just because he's using infinity as the upper constraint of the focal zone, doesn't mean he's describing hyperfocal distance. To give you an example, on my canon FD 50mm f/1.8 lens, if I set my focus as he is showing here, with my aperture set at f/16, I have a focal zone ranging from ~2.5m to infinity. But the hyperfocal distance (calculated from the formula H=f^2/Nc+f, where f=50mm, N=f/16, c=0.029mm, giving H=50^2/(16x0.029)+50) is actually ~5.5m, meaning anything beyond this distance will be "acceptably" in focus. This doesn't mean that the range from 2.5m - 5.5m won't be in focus, but will be slightly less in focus than anything beyond the hyperfocal distance calculated. So he actually is describing zone focusing since he is discussing the ranges of focus for specific aperture stops, and not specifically the distance beyond which everything will be acceptably in focus. Hyperfocal distance is often confused to mean any focus extending out to infinity, but that is not accurate. Optics is the *focus* of my profession - see what I did there?

Me too!

Thank you! The new video of FOCUS BY FEEL is uploaded. Hope you like it...go get it.

Appreciate it! I'm glad this helped. Some time down the road I'll do a similar video on "focus by feel." Stay tuned.

Niiiiice!! Welcome back!!

Also this is a _phenomenal_ explanation. You deserve more attention!

Mannnnnn...you're living your best life right now. That sounds sooo awesome. What a dream kit for most. I would love to get my hands on an M10D, basically a digital analog camera haha.

@@jaeAre200 I took some mind blowing pics today .. first day with it.. only thing is there is definitely not a lot of situations when it's mid day and bright outside when you can take full advantage of the .95 F stop... it's a shade/dark area aperture .. mostly it's useful at F8-11 range during the day.

same

Hey, thanks! In the description, I have videos 2 and 3 of my focus series. I suggest watching them in order. But the last is "focus by feel"

Hahaha, for streetphotography, I have a rule, if the camera is to your eye and you have to focus and compose it, your too slow. In a month or so, I will have my final "focus series" video out where you can focus by feel. So when the light goes down and that "zone" is narrow as fuck, you can still nail that focus at F4 and below :)

Glad it was helpful!

Appreciate it brotha!! Since 18 yrs old, I've come a loong way...wait what.

Mannnn, I certainly do not envy you trying to zone focus in dim places. Thats rough. BUT, the good thing is you have these tools to lean back on. You sound like you know what youre doing, so I feel bad for those who just do digital and have to HEAVILY rely on their machinery instead of sometimes doing it the old school way. Oh, and the OM1 is just a sexy looking camera all together. I believe it is up there with the Leicas with best looking cameras.

@@jaeAre200 I'm old school because I am old (or at least was born quite a while back). I love the OM cameras and have been using them since the 70s - not the same one as that original one died from abuse, although I still have the corpse. These days I have 3 x OM1, 2 x OM2 and an OM40, plus lenses from 24mm f/2.8 up to 180mm f/2.8, plus a bunch of winders and a couple of flashes. I do need to stay away from eBay, but I can't resist a bargain. I have them in the knowledge that they will outlast any digital camera, just as film will out survive any digital files.

Thank you! I just posted the last installment of my focus series. The FOCUS BY FEEL video is uploaded. Have fun and good luck.

Thank you!!! I try to make videos that I wish myself had when I was first starting out, so I'm glad this is helping :) Enjoy the journey!!

Haha, all good man! Glad I was able to help.

Glad it helped. Thanks for the comment and the watch.

Yesss, indeed. Thanks for the watch and comment. Much appreciated.

No worries. And thank you for your time and comment :)

Well, you're not the only one, that's why I made this video because I felt stupid too. And I knew there was a better way to explain this haha. Glad the visuals help if my actual language didnt so much haha.

Thank you!! I try not to shoot anything under 1/125 ss. As for the 40mm pancake style lenses, hmm...it's close to a 50mm so that "zone" becomes a little tight, so i would recommend trying to shoot at F16 IF YOU CAN on a sunny day, so you may have to lower your shutterspeed to 1/60th, which is still fine. OR start pushing your film +2 stops so your rating your 400 speed film at 1600 and that should let you shoot at F16 or so. Good luck! Have fun! Also, messing up a few rolls is just part of the process, so don't be discouraged. I shot 20 bad rolls until I figured out what the hell I was doing.

@@jaeAre200 Thanks so much for the advice & encouragement 🙂

The idea is you're not moving the focus ring at all after you lined up the infinity symbol to the according aperture number on the lens. So typically, you move the focus ring slightly to the right (where the infinity symbol is) and you leave it there. According to if you're shooting at F8 or F16 etc etc. The diagram i showed you is ALL displayed on your manual focus lens. If you look at and study your lens and then watch my video, it should all make sense :) I'm sure it will click :)

@@jaeAre200

Thank you so much, I felt this video needed to be done and in a certain way that you should need to see this video ONCE and thats it. I hated youtubing 9 videos to figure this out. So I just figured it out myself haha.

jae rose I know exactly what you mean. Btw no idea why you don’t have a lot more followers. You got a great channel. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time anyway. Look forward to your next video 👊

@@TheLoneRangefinder Very very kind words. Thank you. Ehhh, in due time the followers will come I suppose. I'm not too worried about it. I have my own professional photography career I'm trying to worry about and this channel is my way of GIVING BACK to the photography and street photography genre that has helped me sooo much.

jae rose Thanks for the sub 😂 You’ve radically increased my following 🤣🤣🤣

@@TheLoneRangefinder Boom!! haha. Like attracts Like. Sub attracts Sub haha.

Well, I'm glad this was able to reach you in your specific time zone (see what I did there?)

jae rose Yrah, you’re “focused” on your audience-that’s awesome 😎📷✌️

Hey no worries!! Yeah, unfortunately you still have to control shutter speed. So when I'm shooting my Leica M6, I'm only physically turning my shutter speed to match each lighting condition i walk into i.e.. shadow area, bright area etc. UNLESS you have a camera that is aperture priority, then my friend, you pretty much can point and shoot.

Hahaha, I totally forgot about that button. Honestly, I've never used it, maybe once for portraits. But on the streets, that's the last thing i'm worried about when I have a split second to take my shitty photo :)

Hahaha, I feel you. I'm sure things will turn out just fine. Thanks for the watch and comment.

Hahaha, glad this helped and entertained a little bit. Thanks for the watch and taking the time out to comment. Much appreciated.