AMOMENT
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So I purchase the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens for my D7000.....I have the 50mm 1.8 but because sometimes I'm lucky to even have 10 feet between my subject and me....I needed something a bit wider that was also good in low light.
So...the 35 is really like a 50 on my crop sensor camera. Anyway....it came and I was testing it out. I bumped up the f-stop to about 3.5 and stood about 12 feet from my subject. (leaving myself plent of DOF) I nailed the focus on the eye...( in review the focus box was dead set on her eye)........I even shot with a SS of 1/200.......and yet, it was SOOOOO OOF. I know how to focus now and haven't been having issues. I suspected that perhaps my AF system wasn't detecting enough contrast to pull off sharp focus in my daughter's eyes from that far away so I got about 5 feet away and the picture, SURPRISNGLY, was so sharp.....despite the VERY narrow DOF.....
Does this make any sense?
So...the 35 is really like a 50 on my crop sensor camera. Anyway....it came and I was testing it out. I bumped up the f-stop to about 3.5 and stood about 12 feet from my subject. (leaving myself plent of DOF) I nailed the focus on the eye...( in review the focus box was dead set on her eye)........I even shot with a SS of 1/200.......and yet, it was SOOOOO OOF. I know how to focus now and haven't been having issues. I suspected that perhaps my AF system wasn't detecting enough contrast to pull off sharp focus in my daughter's eyes from that far away so I got about 5 feet away and the picture, SURPRISNGLY, was so sharp.....despite the VERY narrow DOF.....
Does this make any sense?