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Live View Overview 📹
Live View shows the actual image being recorded by the sensor, and thus allows extremely precise focusing.
Live View focusing is more accurate and consistent than any other approach, and should always be your first choice when feasible. This should be understood to mean that Live View allows 100% the same zone of focus each time: the zone of focus changes with very fine adjustments, even if the focus point stays undetectably the same, because there is often just enough depth of field to allow some “slop”.
Also, fast lenses have aberrations wide open that make focus ambiguous, so that when focusing with Live View, exact focus can be ambiguous. When stopping down after focusing wide-open, remember focus shift issues.
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- Depth of field and how to bypass depth of field limitations via focus stacking.
- Optical aberrations: what they are, what they look like, and what to do about them.
- MTF, field curvature, focus shift: insight into the limitations of lab tests and why imaging performance is far more complex than it appears.
- Optical aberrations: what they are, what they look like, and what to do about them.
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