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<blockquote data-quote="darlenec59" data-source="post: 36362" data-attributes="member: 1179"><p>While we're on the focusing discussion, I have a similar question. I too used to have a film SLR (back in 1979, the Minolta SRT-201 which I loved). It too had the focus circle in the lens. I never had a zoom lens, only a 50mm and a 135mm. When I wanted to focus on something pretty far off I would just turn my focus ring all the way to the right to just go to infinity. On my D3000 with the 18-55mm zoom, there is no infinity setting and when I'm manually focusing it seems that if I turn the focus ring all the way to the right it brings the things in the distance into focus but as I continue to turn the ring it brings closer items back into focus. It seems to go in and out of focus. For instance, if I go to an air show, I know the planes are definitely in the infinity zone of focus. How do I set my camera to focus so that it's ready for when the planes come by. Obviously, auto focus won't work in this situation as the camera doesn't seem to know what to focus on. Sorry for the long post. I hope I've explained this okay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darlenec59, post: 36362, member: 1179"] While we're on the focusing discussion, I have a similar question. I too used to have a film SLR (back in 1979, the Minolta SRT-201 which I loved). It too had the focus circle in the lens. I never had a zoom lens, only a 50mm and a 135mm. When I wanted to focus on something pretty far off I would just turn my focus ring all the way to the right to just go to infinity. On my D3000 with the 18-55mm zoom, there is no infinity setting and when I'm manually focusing it seems that if I turn the focus ring all the way to the right it brings the things in the distance into focus but as I continue to turn the ring it brings closer items back into focus. It seems to go in and out of focus. For instance, if I go to an air show, I know the planes are definitely in the infinity zone of focus. How do I set my camera to focus so that it's ready for when the planes come by. Obviously, auto focus won't work in this situation as the camera doesn't seem to know what to focus on. Sorry for the long post. I hope I've explained this okay. [/QUOTE]
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