Interestingly, just yesterday I was experimenting with ‘hand-held’ manual focusing. My biggest problem with a tripod is that it is way too high! I mean, for a little flower that’s only a couple of inches off the ground, two feet of tripod is too much! So I just do a ‘belly-flop’ and stabilize it with my elbows, and shoot away! Here’s a sample of a hand-held from yesterday.
I just love this f/2 lens! I was maxing out my shutter speed shooting in the shade! I’m not used to seeing ‘1/4000’ blinking in red. Usually, it’s more like 1/8 and a blinking little tripod icon! And the picture quality is just awesome even compared to my kit lens! After using my Zenit lens for a while, I realize how impossible it is to manually focus with a cheapo Canon kit lens.
