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The way that Fuji implemented manual focus mode<\/strong> on their cameras, turn them into possibly the best manual focus cameras around.\u00a0Now some will say the most recent series camers’ AF is so good that you don’t need manual focus. However, I’m not convinced of that. The AF is pretty good, but there are times (such as with strong back-lighting), where even the top cameras of any brand would struggle. Then manual focus can be a huge help. And it makes sense to be familiar with the manual focus options on your camera.<\/p>\n Anyway, here is why I think the way that they implemented manual focus on the Fuji cameras are so good – using the Fuji X100s<\/strong><\/a> (B&H<\/em><\/a> \/ Amazon<\/em><\/a>) to explain:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Accessing the Manual Focus mode works the way it does with most cameras – a slider switch on the side of the camera. Great. So far, so easy.<\/p>\n Now keep in mind that it takes much longer to read all this, than to actually do<\/strong> it. It really is simple and fast.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do keep in mind that you need to enable Focus Check in the camera’s menu. It’s under the blue spanner icon #2 for the Fuji X100s.<\/p>\n I believe it is worth it to play with these options, in case it is necessary, or just easier than using auto-focus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/320 @ f\/5.6 @ 400 ISO <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fuji cameras manual focus mode The way that Fuji implemented manual focus mode on their cameras, turn them into possibly the best manual focus cameras around.\u00a0Now some will say the most recent series camers’ AF is so good that you don’t need manual focus. However, I’m not convinced of that. The AF is pretty good, Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,704,679,490,42],"tags":[535,6479,534],"yst_prominent_words":[1457,1460,1453,1455,1463,1451,1450,1456,1447,1449,1458,1462,1452,6478,1454,1448,1461,1445,1446,1459],"class_list":{"0":"post-15389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-equipment-review","8":"category-equipment-reviews-fuji","9":"category-fuji","10":"category-fuji-x100s","11":"category-technique","12":"tag-focusing-the-fuji-x100s","13":"tag-fuji-cameras","14":"tag-fuji-x100s-manual-focus","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40723,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions\/40723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/camera\/fuji-x100s\/fuji-x100s-rear-mfocus.jpg\")
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\nHold the camera to your eye (and momentarily fawn again at the marvelous \u00a0Optical Viewfinder), you will see that as you turn the focus ring on the lens, that an enlarged view<\/strong> pops up in the viewfinder. (Or the back of the camera if that is your preferred way of working.) The enlarged view (even if it is an electronic display), makes it pretty easy to see exactly how sharply you’ve focused on some part of your subject.However, you might not want to touch the focus ring if you’re already correctly focused. You might just want to confirm that your focus is correct. To bring up the enlarged view, just press the\u00a0\u00a0Command control lever<\/strong>\u00a0(check the blue arrow on the diagram.) Just press it lightly to toggle between normal and enlarged views.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nInstead of twiddling the dial until the image snaps in focus, you can just press the AFL\/ AEL button<\/strong>. (The red arrow in the diagram.) The focus is activated, and the camera auto-focuses for you … while you see the enlarged view. Perfect. This gives you instant accurate focus. And if you feel you can tweak it to focus a bit sharper, or that you’d rather focus on another part of your subject, then you turn the focus ring. The Spot-Focus method works very much like using Back-Button Focus<\/a> on a DSLR. By letting go of the AFL\/AEL button, the focus is now locked since the camera is in manual focus mode after all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nCombining those two techniques, you’d be able to use the\u00a0\u00a0Command control lever<\/strong>\u00a0with the\u00a0AFL\/ AEL button<\/strong> to get quick focus while in the enlarged view. This part is what I think is so awesome! \u00a0Fast and accurate manual focus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nThere are three different focusing aids for manual focus:
\n– Standard (where the image just enlarges on the screen \/ viewfinder)
\n– Focus Peaking (where the correctly focused area shimmers.
\n– Split-screen (the camera electronically mimics the split-focusing-screen of the old film cameras.)Instead of delving into the menu to change between these, you can simply push the Command control lever<\/strong> (check the blue arrow on the diagram) for two seconds. Now by pressing this lever, you get to toggle between the Manual Focus Assist options. Personally, I prefer the Standard view. But the other two options are there for anyone that has a different preference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAbout the image at the top<\/h2>\n
\nThese two beautiful murals in the lower part of Manhattan, New York. The car – I’m not sure if it was purposely parked there to enhance the display – in other words, to be part of some greater Art display. Either way, it just really gave more impact to the scene. I processed the RAW file in-camera to the Velvia\/Vivid film type to give me this out-of-camera JPG. (The square crop was done via Photoshop.)<\/p>\nRelated articles<\/h2>\n
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