Hi Guys,
Total amateur here, who's been practicing for a few months.
I bought this Kiron 80-200mm f4.5 macro lens for 20 bucks. I'm shooting on mirrorless with adapters.
I'm too newb enough to not understand the markings on the lens. For example if I wanted to zone focus out to 10ft, how would I do that?
I'm primarily wanting to zone focus for faster street photography.
Thanks
a lens like that isn't very suitable for street photography though...
if you want to be faster in shooting street, I recommend getting something wide-ish like a 35 then shoot at f8 or f11, set the focus to 1m then most things would be in focus
That's cause your lens doesn't have the markings for zone focusing.
In my pic, the orange line denotes where the focus is according to the distance written on the focus ring. The pairs of white lines that branch out refer to apertures f/8, f/16, and f/22. That means that the range of distances between each set of lines is your depth of field for that particular focal length and aperture.
For those that aren't familiar with the design of lens, this is a push/pull zoom which has fallen out of style in favor of zoom rings. Also, the red line (also in OP's lens) refers to the focus point of infrared.
Now, just because your camera doesn't have the marking doesn't mean you can't use zone focusing. Use a DOF calculator like this
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
and find good combinations of focal length, aperture, and focus distance you can use for your style of photography and keep note of them. Practice switching between them until it becomes second nature.
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Agreed. If you are adapting vintage lenses I would recommend a Canon or Nikon 35mm lens (they work well on my Sony) if you can't find those, then the Canon FD 50mm F1.8
