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How can I check my focus?

How can I check my focus?

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How can I check my focus?

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Rich Harrington: Hi, my name is Rich Harrington. Robbie Carman: And I am Robbie Carman. Rich: Now, one of the things that everybody gets bugged with is focus. You know, people are like, can I sharpen it in post, can I apply a filter? Robbie: Well, and it's been made particularly bad in the past few years with DSLR production, simply because everything looks good on the back of your LCD. Rich: Yeah. Robbie: So, people just make the assumption of, oh yeah, it kind of looks in focus, yeah, I'll just run with it, and when they get back to their studio, you will notice that, yes, things are in fact a little soft and they are not working as well as they should. So, this week we are going to talk about some practical strategies to help you check your focus. Now, ideally your best solution would be checking focus on something besides the back of your camera, besides that little LCD, but all of the sort of the techniques that we are going to talk about are applicable if you are using the LCD…

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