Telling a story on myself - care to join in?

Scott_Quier

Setting the stage:

1. As you may have gleanded from my many posts on the subject, I'm something of a fan of the AF Microadjustment technology. I upgraded from a pair of 30D cameras to a pair of 50D bodies mostly to gain access to feature. And it paid for itself with my first gig - so good decision.
2. I've dropped a bit of equipment in order to change my photographic direction and purchase a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II tilt-shift manual focus lens. A quick aside - judging from the lack of stock at any of the on-line stores, I may have bought the last one available in the entire US. I received it from Pictureline.com on Tuesday (16 FEB 2010) and have been reading the owner's manual and playing with it indoors in an attempt to understand the physics of it's functioning. I think I may have a TSE 101 level of understanding now :deal

Anyway, I'm getting pretty excited about this lens and, before I even do any AF Microadjustment tweaking on this camera/lens combination, I mount the lens on my 5DII, mount the 5DII on my pano-rail, mount the pano-rail/camera on my tripod and, very carefully, carry the enitre setup into the Cul de Sac to do a quick pano.

With the camera about 2.5' from the ground (that's about .75m - for those who use a real system of measurement ), I get the panohead level, set the WB to manual daylight setting, in manual set f/11, ISO 100, 1/60s, dial in about 2° of down-tilt, and set the focus using the DOF indicators on the lens barrel. I make a series of over-lapping images. I get the images loaded up in Bridge CS4 and zoom into 100% (gotta pixel-peep a new lens right?) and am amazed at how sharp even the tiniest details are.

Later that night, I'm thinking about the afternoon's events. It occurs to me this is the first lens I've purchased that didn't require even a tiny bit of AF Microadjustment to get eye-slashingly sharp images. I'm thinking I'm really impressed with the lens!

Then .... facepalm (facepalm: a definition) ... :doh .... it dawns on me that AF Microadjustment technology and a manual focus lens .... they just don't mix! :lol

Anybody else have similar :doh moments?

dlplumer

Good post Scott

Now tell me what I have to do to shoot my 5D II in live view at a shutter speed slower than 1/30

Scott_Quier

dlplumer wrote:

Good post Scott

Now tell me what I have to do to shoot my 5D II in live view at a shutter speed slower than 1/30

Uuuummmm ... maybe read the owner's manual? I've not used live view (yet) so I don't know that there is a problem with this. Is there?