Post your BEST 3 of October 2021!

SquarePeg · Nov 2, 2021

CherylL said:
Fuji X-T4 + 56mm. Good eye! The lens stays on my camera most of the time. It takes patience to focus wide open. If I'm trying to isolate one bloom on a tree then it doesn't latch focus on the one bloom. So I have to find a high contrast point to focus on the correct plane of the tree and then move to bloom and refocus. When it latches on focus it is sharp.

The Fuji 60mm macro is the same. Slow/no AF in low light or low contrast when wide open but magic when it hits.

jcdeboever · Nov 2, 2021

CherylL said:
Fuji X-T4 + 56mm. Good eye! The lens stays on my camera most of the time. It takes patience to focus wide open. If I'm trying to isolate one bloom on a tree then it doesn't latch focus on the one bloom. So I have to find a high contrast point to focus on the correct plane of the tree and then move to bloom and refocus. When it latches on focus it is sharp.

Manual focus with High red peaking highlights. You could also do this and shoot it in monochrome raw and convert it in camera to color. Really makes life easier. I shoot my X100V this way about 75% of the time. I should mention that I shoot this way not because of AF issues but more similar to approach with film cameras.

CherylL · Nov 2, 2021

SquarePeg said:
The Fuji 60mm macro is the same. Slow/no AF in low light or low contrast when wide open but magic when it hits.

Magic is a good word to describe when it does hit focus

CherylL · Nov 2, 2021

jcdeboever said:
Manual focus with High red peaking highlights. You could also do this and shoot it in monochrome raw and convert it in camera to color. Really makes life easier. I shoot my X100V this way about 75% of the time. I should mention that I shoot this way not because of AF issues but more similar to approach with film cameras.

I may give that a try sometime.