Hi all, I've read many reviews, and the specs...but am still unclear about what the "close focus" is. 1 foot? 10 feet? thanks!
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As far as I can research, it is 16.4 feet the close focus. A closer minimum close-focus distance usually means forfieting magnification. A closer minimum close-focus distance often means an reduction in overall image clarity.
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Close focus is 25 feet, a little fuzzy at 20 ft. I use mine to spot bullet holes in a target when shooting with iron sights at 50 yards. Works great!
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Hi John,The close focus distance of the MiniMight Monocular is about 10 feet.If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact our customer service department at 631-963-5000 or by email at info@carson.com
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I can focus down to about 1/2" from the lens with very good clarity. The problem may be your ability to get good lighting on the object. I do not know how small your object is. I used a AAA battery as an object and got good focus. The camera does have a macro function for close shots.I recommend backing off about 6-8 inches and using a little zoom for a close up. Auto focus produced a good image on my camera.
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Download the user manual, there is a chart with that info. I have 92" (diagonal) and am at 14'2" without adjusting the focus and so on. You'd need to be back some .... Mines a 3010, so YRMV.... It's worth the effort to get it "just right"....
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Fixed focus, does not zoom, approx. 2.5' diameter spot at 20'. never timed it's battery life because I've never used it more than about 30 minutes
1077783
That is really a hard question to answer all I can say is I have been able to do some great closeups with the zoom, better then macro I think you have to be about 25 feet away to use the full zoom on closeups
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According to the specifications printed on the side of the box, the close focus for these binoculars is 26ft./8m. Hope this helps.
1548302
Great question! I bought mine for similar work. At low mag the camera will be focused at about 12" from the work. As you go up to high mag, the camera will need to be closer, and sitting on the part at max. With camera about 6" from work, the magnification is really good for wires in the 0.002" - 0.010" range.
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Close in focus is a problem with that lens. I have often found that a problem. The minimum focus distance depends on the zoom ratio selected. At the 28mm setting, the camera will focus down in the macro range (marked in orange on the focus distance ring) and that gets you to about 4 feet. The lowest focus distance marked in white is 2 meters, and that applies as the minimum focus distance with the 200 mm zoom setting. In between it varies proportionately to the zoom setting as to what your minimum focus distance is. In short, if you do a lot of work close in, this lens is not a good choice. I have no experience with extension tubes.
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minimum focus is less than 5 feet, seems about 57 inches or maybe as little as 52, I cannot remember. I have occasionally used it for closeups of flowers quite well
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In our line of work we are working on small die parts at close range. Roughly six inches away from the actual lens. Closer for the smaller lens. Roughly 2''... Everyone's eye muscles are different though.
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hi, It provides extremely high optical performance from infinity to 1:1 Macro.Close focus capability of 15" (38 cm), with 1:1 magnification.it can take life size pictures.
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I believe the specs are correct - the lens will focus about 4 inches from the sensor plane (marked on the top right of the body) That's right about the front surface of the lens, which may be the reference. I have a 1A filter on mine, and the lens will go a little blurry if my subject is on the lens, but ease back just a bit and in it comes.
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It is standard focus. I have a 120 inch screen and the projector is mounted about 11 feet away. You can go to the Optoma website, put in the model number, and pull up specs for throw distance and offset. It is very helpful.
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I did not accurately measure this but from my observation using the unit minimum distance that it will focus is about 8-10 feet. It will not focus closer than that.
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Not that this will be of much help, but I'm with you. Ordered a 24mm 1.4 (later returned) expecting the same jaw-dropping results I get from the 85mm 1.4 and it's just not there that I can see. As far as your suggestion of getting closer to your subject for pop - sure, a wide angle lens will really exaggerate the perceived depth of a shot. That's how I'd roll with it for the most part; 2' from the subject (more for DX frame), avoiding top and bottom when shooting vertical (unless you want that edge distortion; maybe not so bad on DX). The sharpness you're looking for also won't exist until you get close enough to your subject to give eyelashes and things of that nature some pixels to work with. At 85mm, it pulls these details in and paints them across, say, 5% of the frame or more. With the 24mm you may be talking about less than 1% of the pixels dedicated to what you're looking for details in. I've seen some REALLY spectacular night landscape images that were made with this lens. Also, the bokeh that lens produces is right on par with the 85mm. The issues I had with the 24mm (and the reasons I returned it) were failure to find focus at 1.4 no matter how much I helped it along and a general lack of spectacular sharpness at 1.4. At this end of the price spectrum, this has to be gold. It's real close, and quite nice at 2.8, but so are lots of lenses at 2.8. That said, I've still got this lens on my mind. If it were a 20mm 1.4 I'd just suck it up and do it. At 24 there are some other close options out there.
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With the standard eyepiece the scope comes with, you can focus on close objects at about 25' or so. I removed the 45 degree diagonal it comes with and used the eyepiece straight off the back, and this added a few feet to the close focus, probably 28', but in dark shadows the image was alot brighter. Prisms seem to reduce the amount of light transferred a small amount although they flip the image so it looks right side up.