Ooops. Sorry to hear that. Looking at your building image I estimated
that you must have been at least 200 meters away from the building.
Then, even if the lens was wide open at f/2.8 at 50mm the building
should have been within the DOF range even if the lens was actually
focused as close as 43 meters. In fact, I compute the hyperfocal
distance as 53 meters. It would seem to be hard to seriously misfocus
the lens.
Chuck Norcutt
C.H.Ling wrote:
> This is my first thought too, but I have repeated the AF shots with focus
> lock (AF Lock) at MF mode and got the focus confirmation from the camera
> before taking the shots. It seems that the camera accepted the "error" and
> treated the target as in-focus.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:30 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: E-3 focus problem
>
>
>> For these low contrast problem images perhaps the camera is not actually
>> "locking on" and you are unaware of or unintentionally ignoring the
>> problem. On a Canyon 5D, if the camera is set in "one-shot" mode it
>> won't fire unless it believes the image is in focus. I don't know how
>> the E3 works or what sort of settings are available but perhaps it's set
>> to allow shooting whether or not focus is achieved and, with the low
>> contrast targets, it's not achieving it at all or perhaps not fast
>> enough before you fire the shutter.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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