Minimum Focusing Distance
If you go to shoot a portrait and your lens won’t focus, it’s probably because you’re standing so close to your subject that your lens can’t focus. Lenses have a thing called Minimum Focusing Distance, and if your lens won’t focus, it means that you’re trying to shoot inside that Minimum Focusing Distance range so it can’t focus. Just step back a couple feet, and then zoom in to get the same basic composition (this is why I like a zoom lens so much). How do you find out what your Minimum Focusing Distance is? Sometimes it’s printed right on the barrel of your lens (as seen above), or right on the front where you would ...
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