How to Focus Your Medium Format Camera for Landscape Photography
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Focusing your medium format camera for landscape photography can be tricky because of the lens characteristics and sensor size. In todays video, I share with you my approach to creating sharp landscape photography photos with my Fujifilm GFX 50S II and the Fujinon GF 30mm F3.5 Lens. The focus technique we will be using is called hyperfocal focusing. I hope you enjoy the video!
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00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - Why is it difficult to focus a medium format camera in landscape photography
01:42 - Critical factors that affect sharpness
02:33 - Landscape photography sharpness requirements
03:03 - Expectations from Medium format lenses
04:37 - How to focus a medium format lens
06:38 - What is diffraction?
06:55 - What is hyperfocal focusing?
07:20 - How to set the hyperfocul distance on film camera.
08:30 - How to set the hyperfocul distance on a Fujifilm GFX camera
10:52 - The first composition
13:08 - The first example photo
14:41 - The second composition
15:55 - The second example photo
16:16 - The third composition
17:30 - The third example photo
18:00 - The fourth composition
20:33 - The fourth example photo
21:03 - The fifth composition
21:51 - The fifth example photo
22:24 - Outro - Навчання та стиль
Nice ...... also nice to let the singing blackbird act as background music ;-)
Great video tutorial!
Very insightful video thank you.
Amazing! I've just got a 50s II as my first medium format! Appreciate the help!
Thanks for the info on focusing medium format. Very helpful!
STEPHEN!!!! Exactly the kind of information I have been looking for! Or maybe a lot of people been looking for mate! Great info. Thanks a lot! 👌👍💪
Thank you 🙏
Nice episode mate full of great info and images in cracking locations
Thanks mate 🙏
Great Video! Thank you
Hyperfocal is new to me. I always use the lines on the lens that give me the range at at f stops. Wider when the f stop is bigger and/or the distance is further. Easy. Just set the infinity symbol of the lens ring to the line on the right that corresponds with the chosen f stop, and you can read the distance of the sharpness of the foreground by the corresponding f stop line on the left. This engraving has been around for decades and is fail proof. It's so easy. At a quick glance you can check the range of sharpness.
I think your focus technique is the hyperfocal approach. I do the same as you on my medium format prime lenses.
Stephen really enjoyed the video. I shoot landscapes with a Mamiya 7ii and my 43 80 and 150 lenses. The 43 is incredible for landscapes and I use the hyperfocal technique a lot - the quiet shutter in the M7II lets me shoot handheld down to 1/8 to 1/4 sec for razor sharp images. Thanks again - watch your channel everytime you post a new video. John
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it. The M7 lenses are awesome 😎
The most pleasant photo with the most calming effect would be the long exposure.. In my opinion. Well done chap
9:45 how do you get the rear lcd to show that display of the image and the focus peaking??
The hyperfocal distance is the way to go as you mentioned it. I shoot with a full frame Nikon and even with the full frame it works well. I think though that full frame have more flexibility than medium format. Thanks for the video very instrumental in your description.
Thank you 🙏 Yes, full frame has better depth of field because of the lens designs ✌️
Bonjour Stephen,
Je regarde vos vidéos depuis quelques temps et je les trouve très ludiques...Je pense que vous avez une belle approche de cette merveilleuse nature Néo Zélandaise et vous en félicite..
Je suis photographe amateur et je suis passé au moyen format depuis peu avec le GFX 50S II et je suis tout simplement surpris de cette définition que procure ce boitier..Je ne ne le maitrise par encore, mais j'espère m'en sortir au fil du temps et surtout de la pratique...Merci encore pour ces conseils qui m'aideront à mettre en composition les paysages de ma région..Je vis en France et plus exactement au coeur de la Côte des Blancs de la Champagne... Encore merci pour toutes ces belles photos..et d'en découvrir de nouvelles dans vos prochaines vidéos...
Thank you 🙏 I am glad you find them helpful ✌️
Very helpful video, and beautiful images Stephen! Thanks a lot! Great to know about Hyperfocal and the gfx50s II depth of field scale and how to use it in manual mode by adjusting f-stop +/or focus. You mentioned one can use the scale in auto-focus mode, as well on the camera. So, in that case I guess one can use f-stop +/or the area auto-focused on (small area best?) to achieve the desired hyperfocal depth of field? Seems just using manual focus would be simpler, though?
Yes, you are correct. Beware of the lenses, if you are focusing at infinity, in manual mode they focus past infinity.
Stephen I use the hyperfocal technique whenever I can great shots..
Thanks Mick, great to hear it works for you ✌️
Good video. Love the digital hyper focal distance scale in camera. Shame manufacturers ditched the scale on most lenses. Olympus have it on their 17mm but not there 25mm for instance.
Thank you 🙏 I like it on the lens too ✌️
Nice one Stephen, why did you switch from the HAsselblad back to the Mamiya since they have the same 6X6 format?
I find the Mamiya lighter, compact and easy to use
Hi Stephen,
How do I apply hyperfocal focus on my Hasselblad 80mm 2.8 Carl Zeis lens? It does not have the necessary information needed on the lens for me to apply hyperfocal focus it seems like, although I might be mistaking
On the lens, you align the distance numbers with the f stop numbers.
Stephen thanks for that video well explained ..... as Fuji GFX gains ground many 35mm users see UA-cam videos that don't explain the differences between the formats or if they do they don't explain how to use the new MF system. Well done. PS I need some new Tee Shirts :)
Thank you 🙏
It's really interesting I've been shooting full frame and now crops sensor with my landscape photography and I've used the hyper focal method for quite a long time even though with the crops sense you're probably don't need to as much. I'm glad that you can do this I'm not a fan of stacking images I find that it's irritating to do slow and also at sometimes that she doesn't work, especially if you're doing one second seascapes so there is time in between each shot and then the ocean looks different. The clouds have moved it just simply doesn't work so using the hyper focal method would work I was wondering about the F stop shooting around F 10 to F 13. You would still get quite good sharpness. Would that help hyper focal method as well using a medium format camera I'm very interested in the GFX 50 SII I have always drereamed of owning a medium format camera. I think with the hyper focal method you don't have to be exactly precise in the right spot. I generally aim about 2 to 3 m in front of me. Sometimes it's a rock or something in the foreground and that is my spot. Usually it's estimated that it's roughly 1/3 into an image. Is that something that I'm going to need to adjust with medium format how exact do you need to be? One of the terms that I have read is we really looking for optimal sharpness you never going to get perfect sharpness from foreground to the horizon. Line, but I think acceptable sharpness is good enough. I think it's actually more important for a camera to be sharp in the foreground probably up to 3/4 of the image and then if the mountains in the background are a little bit soft that's okay because if you're human eye sees it like that when you're standing there anyway it's a reason why I don't like stacking I don't want to see the mountains, tack sharp. I think it looks natural and I don't like the look at all, so my thinking is the hyper focal method could work really well and would give me acceptable sharpness throughout the image
Hey, I use the sharpness scale on the LCD screen. Usually, it’s about half way.
What are those lens cap? Looks like you had some filter adapters screwed on and those lens caps can be put on top of adapters? That's nice.
On my Mamiya 6 in use the Nisi 65mm system. I use Freewell Filters on the GFX. Both systems have lens caps that fix to the adapter. I leave the adapter attached all the time.
Such a shame that you didn't do any tripod shots & show us the LCD as you carried out your procedure
Do you have a video where you do this - I couldn't grasp from the indoors demo with the GFX - quite where you were focussing as your focus area didn't appear to move
Thank you for taking the time to make the videos
CB
Have a read of the Aperture section of this article stephen-milner.com/blog/2019/3/15/develop-camera-equipment-skills
at last!! a video that understands you don't just multiply the focal length of a lens by the crop factor. a 35mm lens (or whatever) is a 35mm lens. Its characteristics don't change when you stick it on a different camera! I shoot MF precisely because I like the lens characteristics, particularly the way the system as a whole renders depth.
it's interesting that you ETTR. I find with my GFX100 (and 50R before) that shooting to protect the highlights and then taking advantage of the camera's excellent dynamic range to lift the shadows in processing gave (me anyway!!) better results.
Thank you 🙏 I’m still experimenting with exposure and RAW conversion to see what works best. I’ve started doing my RAW conversion in Capture One before final edit in Lightroom. If I’m away from home and editing, I use the in body RAW conversion. In these photos, there are some RGB and ICC gamma issues in the highlights. I suspect it because of the exposure but need to test.
Thanks Steven, I have watched this tutorial twice now after pulling the trigger on the gfx 100s, so I can’t wait to get shooting, thank you again my friend