Little Green Hoods
End of spring colors in Burgundy
I still find it difficult to control focusing with my 350D kit lens. For instance, I wanted this image to be as sharp as possible from foreground to background, so I shot it at f/36 and tried to focus near the hyperfocal distance (there’s no infinity focus mark on the lens), yet I’m not completely satisfied with the result; too many zones are slightly out of focus (this is not obvious in the web-sized picture) and no amount of digital sharpening can overcome this.
How do you do? Do you have any tips regarding sharp focusing? Any help would be greatly appreciated… 
This photo was published on June 15, 2005 with the following tags: Canon EF-S 18-55, Canon EOS 350D, Landscape.
Comments
chiaroscuro on June 16, 2005 (#1)
You probably don’t want to be using as small of an aperture as f/36 to shoot landscapes because you will get a fuzzy image due to diffraction effects. See http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/technical/diffraction.html
relaxing shot, great place!
Not a knock on the lens at all, but you probably won’t get tack-sharp focus throughout with it either, it’s just not that calibre of lens.
The kit lens isn’t sharp. That said, I’ve found f8-16 works best for landscapes. Always mount the camera on a tripod to get the best sharpness possible. I also find 50mm f1.8 and 28mm f2.8 lenses are a great improvement over the kit lens…if you can deal with the fixed-focal length (which I find challenging but rewarding–I like to move my feet).