Originally posted by Apet-Sure If anyone is confused it's more likely to be me! Come to think of it, when using manual focus lenses, I just trust the green hexagon to come on when it's supposed to. Maybe I need to do a comparison between viewfinder and LV focusing with MF lenses.
Isn't that what the DotTune video is all about? Get the lens to focus, switch to manual, then make sure the green dot stays solid and adjust the fine tuning until it does? It was actually incredibly helpful to take that video's approach and stop with the "take a photo, review, adjust, take a photo, review, adjust..."
Using this method, I was getting to a +7 or +8 for achieving the green dot, but still getting it at +10. Below +7 and I was no longer getting the indicator. It feels too high to be "normal", but it could be I've just never had to deal with it before.
Originally posted by Serkevan If those are 100% crops you're too far away from the target I think. I do the fine tuning at about a meter distance for normalish lenses
That very well could be. The 18-135 does have a min focus distance that might be pushing back further that you might expect for this testing, though. I'm at about 2 - 2.5ft away (0.6 - 0.8 meters). I'm new to using these focus charts as well.