how close is close focus?
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I am estimating it to be about 15 feet. Didn't find this out until after I bought it and started using it. Would have really liked something that was more like 5 to 6 feet, or closer.
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I think yes. I'm not positive because I haven't measured subject distances, but have gotten sharp focus at 3-5 cm.
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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.
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Use the longer mode for most shots. The short focus mode (9 ft or so) seeks like crazy and can be a lot of trouble. The lens operates best at 30ft or so. It is sharp as a tack and fast as hell on focusing. The short range is only good for real closeups. Other than that, leave it in the longer range.
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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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Closest usable focus distance is about 5.5 inches from the lens. What that means in practice is that an item one-half of an inch across will fill about half the frame (at least on my 50D).
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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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With my old 5D MkII, I use the center focus dot 90% of the time. Pre-focus, lock and recompose
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I can close focus at 7 feet with a 1/4 twist of the black ring near the objective. The little knob is where you can mount it to a tripod.The slider from "15x to 55" is near the eyepiece and just slides 1/5 turn easily and smoothly. It is really 10x to 25x.
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Your probably too close for what the lense your using can handle. Have you tried auto focus? For macro shots its almost easier to use anyways.
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You'll need to be within about 6 inches to use this magnifier. You might consider a pair of folding Opera Glasses. They can be found inexpensively (on amazon), unfortunately you'll probably need to be 3 feet away to get them to focus... it may say in the product description. I have a monocular that lets you focus in very short distance... little more expensive, but very handy.
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Bad one. Should just work smoothly. You should not notice it - except having to focus manually. ;)
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My husband's eyes are also close-set. He uses the binocs all the way closed. The distance between the center of his eyeballs measures about 2-1/2" ...the same as the eye pieces on the binocs. I hope this info helps
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If you are using the macro lens that came with this kit, you will only be able to focus on objects no more than a couple of inches away from your camera. Put your focus on manual to adjust.
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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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You must be very close to the object, like almost touching it to be in focus.
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It does work very well for close focusing, but not to infinity. Your FD lens is not automatic focus so its manual focus only