Originally posted by 672 Great behind the scenes texanandrew. I wouldn't want to be driving that lift!!! (into the painting). On another note , I am prepping for a straight down shoot and am using AF fine tune adjustment to set true focus pointing straight down. With AF lenses, the elements float and the fine tune adjustment is different for normal straight ahead shooting, versus straight up, or straight down. For my current goals of being at 28mm on the wide zoom looking straight down I've got AF fine tune adjustment all the way to -10 and wish it went to -12 or -15....
Just something to look into for your 35mm as it will help to nail point of focus instead of relying on greater DOF.
Thank you for that tip! This would have been much easier focus-wise had I been able to stay in one place, of course. Because I was up in the lights and coffered ceiling, I had to go up and down a bit, and that was an issue. Really started having the problem after the conservators asked for some detail shots of problem areas they want to track over time, and those shots were done with the lift all the way down. Swapping lenses wasn't on that day, sadly. Not being able to focus from the tether was super annoying. Guess I'm going to have to cough up for the Image Transmitter 2 software (on a CD/DVD disk! omg...I don't even have drives in my computers anymore....)