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Anonymous
Here is a photo I took yesterday on my old film camera.
I have a question: I have a Yashica 50mm lens. Can anyone tell me if lenses similar to these (or just 50mm in general) have trouble focusing on subjects close to the camera? The first picture is from a couple feet away, and it's in focus just fine. The second one though is closer, and it is as blurry as shit. I know that moving closer makes it more difficult to focus, but it seems like I could never get a good close up shot with this lens.
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>> Anonymous
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Here is the shitty one. This isn't even the worse example, but the only one I have on the computer

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>> Anonymous
Shave that bum fluff of your face.
>> Anonymous
What is the minimum focus distance of the lens? Optical performance varies depending on how near or far you are focusing too.
>> Anonymous
>>267263
About a foot away, and I know for this one I had plenty of room to pull in even closer. For some reason it's just difficult as hell on this camera to take a focused close-up. Now, I wasn't set on f/16, would the difference of a couple f-stops help that much?
>> Anonymous
>>267266
He must have gotten lost on his way to /b/
>> Anonymous
That is the worst attempt at a 'tache I've seen in a long time. It's like dust on a shelf.
>> Anonymous
The closer you focus, the less depth of field you have, so the more precise you have to be.

So, either:

- Your focusing screen sucks, and you can't get precise enough focused close.
- Your lens's focusing ring doesn't have a decent amount of throw in the close-up range, and so you're always missing it.
- You suck at focusing to a degree that's not noticeable further out.
- I'm not an expert at optics, so I don't know if this is possible, but I guess your lens could be fucked in some way that throws off the moving of the elements in the close range. Or generally and depth of field covers the error further out.

Lastly, what did you do to>>267258? It's in focus like you're saying, but it looks blurrier than the out of focus>>267259.
>> Anonymous
Do you have a soft focus filter on your camera?

Unless you've shooped them a bit, both of these pix look like they're using a soft focus, like from one of those "Glamourshots" booths at the mall...