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i bought a new focusing screen for my digital slr.
for those familiar with 35mm slr's, you might recognize the pattern printed on the little rectangle thingy. that's the magical piece of acrylic or glass that allows you to manually focus a camera lens. digital slr's, for the most part, do not include this option, which sucks because it's an extremely simple change (or "challenge" if you're this dude on youtubes).
i'm really excited to get it because it allows me to better focus manual lenses. let me back up and explain, nikon has used the same lens mount for their slr cameras. that means i can use my lens from the early 60s on my new camera. i've got 4 old lenses that i can use with my camera, including my Nikkor-S (C) Auto 1:1.4 f= 50mm, which is fancy speak for "a lens that can shoot in low light pretty well (and do other stuff too)"
an example of what the old lens can do:
when i focus on the "0" in 400, you can see how everything in front and behind that point of focus is blurry. the focused portion which can be seen wrapping around the telephone pole is known as the depth of field.
for those familiar with 35mm slr's, you might recognize the pattern printed on the little rectangle thingy. that's the magical piece of acrylic or glass that allows you to manually focus a camera lens. digital slr's, for the most part, do not include this option, which sucks because it's an extremely simple change (or "challenge" if you're this dude on youtubes).
i'm really excited to get it because it allows me to better focus manual lenses. let me back up and explain, nikon has used the same lens mount for their slr cameras. that means i can use my lens from the early 60s on my new camera. i've got 4 old lenses that i can use with my camera, including my Nikkor-S (C) Auto 1:1.4 f= 50mm, which is fancy speak for "a lens that can shoot in low light pretty well (and do other stuff too)"
an example of what the old lens can do:
when i focus on the "0" in 400, you can see how everything in front and behind that point of focus is blurry. the focused portion which can be seen wrapping around the telephone pole is known as the depth of field.