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I wonder if anyone can offer any suggestions to deal with the following:
Suppose you're taking low-light indoor pictures with your G2 on a tripod, and suppose you've elected to use a fairly wide aperture to reduce depth of field. This means that you have to be careful about where you focus your camera, and most rangefinder users know that what you want to do is lock focus on the part of the shot you want to be sharpest, recompose and shoot. The problem is trying to do this when your camera is attached to a tripod. I simply can't loosen the ball head, lock focus, recompose and tighten the ball head all while keeping the shutter release (or focus lock button) half-depressed. This is one circumstance where I wish the focusing didn't reset to infinity every time you let your finger off, or there were a real "lock focus" feature kind of like the AEL switch, so that the lens could be locked in position without one having to keep one's finger on the trigger. (There probably is and I just don't know about it.) Short of getting out a tape measure and using the manual focus function, are there any simple solutions to this situation? ("Buy an M6" is not a simple solution for me . . )
Thanks.
Kirk
Suppose you're taking low-light indoor pictures with your G2 on a tripod, and suppose you've elected to use a fairly wide aperture to reduce depth of field. This means that you have to be careful about where you focus your camera, and most rangefinder users know that what you want to do is lock focus on the part of the shot you want to be sharpest, recompose and shoot. The problem is trying to do this when your camera is attached to a tripod. I simply can't loosen the ball head, lock focus, recompose and tighten the ball head all while keeping the shutter release (or focus lock button) half-depressed. This is one circumstance where I wish the focusing didn't reset to infinity every time you let your finger off, or there were a real "lock focus" feature kind of like the AEL switch, so that the lens could be locked in position without one having to keep one's finger on the trigger. (There probably is and I just don't know about it.) Short of getting out a tape measure and using the manual focus function, are there any simple solutions to this situation? ("Buy an M6" is not a simple solution for me . . )
Thanks.
Kirk