{"id":4434,"date":"2011-10-05T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:14:58","slug":"an-introduction-to-zone-focusing-or-hyperfocal-focusing-for-your-leica-rangefinder-or-dslr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/an-introduction-to-zone-focusing-or-hyperfocal-focusing-for-your-leica-rangefinder-or-dslr\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Zone Focusing for your Leica, Rangefinder, or DSLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HR9pagH5ZI\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I first started shooting street photography, I was always frustrated that my autofocus would always be too slow to capture the decisive moment. After trudging around the internet, I was first introduced to the idea of &#8220;zone focusing&#8221; by Markus Hartel on <a title=\"Zone focusing - Markus Hartel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.markushartel.com\/blog\/learn-from-markus\/zone-focusing\">his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with zone focusing you essentially use a high f-stop number with a deep depth of field (f\/16 or f\/11) and have your camera pre-focused to a certain distance to get your photos in-focus. This is beneficial because although modern autofocusing systems are quite good, they are not 100% reliable. Using zone focusing when shooting street photography allows you to get far more keepers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4439\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4439\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/an-introduction-to-zone-focusing-or-hyperfocal-focusing-for-your-leica-rangefinder-or-dslr\/olympus-digital-camera-26\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?fit=1008%2C756&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1008,756\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-PM1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1317817688&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hyperfocal zone focusing \" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4439\" title=\"hyperfocal zone focusing \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?resize=605%2C454\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hyperfocal.jpg?resize=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aperture at f\/16 and focused to around .9 meters. You can see everything from .7 meters to 1.5 meters will be in-focus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regarding the settings, I typically use the following when shooting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aperture: f\/16<\/li>\n<li>ISO: 800-3200<\/li>\n<li>Shutter speed: Above 320ths\/second<\/li>\n<li>Prefocus: 1 meter<\/li>\n<li>AV-mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Why do I use the above settings? Shooting at f\/16 allows me to get the deepest depth-of-field with my lens. I keep my ISO high so my shutter speed will be above 320ths\/second (this allows you to capture people walking and not blurry). I don&#8217;t mind having extra grain or noise in my images. I actually find it to make my images more gritty and raw. Also I keep my lens pre-focused to around 1 meter&#8211; because that is how close I generally am to my subjects when shooting.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started shooting street photography, I was always frustrated that my autofocus would always be too slow to capture the decisive moment. After trudging around the internet, I was first introduced to the idea of &#8220;zone focusing&#8221; by Markus Hartel on his blog. 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