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Started noticing lately my D70's images seemed just slightly out of
focus, sort of an uninvited "soft focus."

Was pulling my hair out, trying to find a reason for this....was there
an autofocus problem? Was my new D70 defective somehow??

Panic, Panic, etc, lol.


Then it dawned on me, it is my computer's flat-panel monitor which is
out-of-focus, not the camera, thank God!!

Anyone else here experience the same thing??

Thanks,

Mert

mert wrote:
> Started noticing lately my D70's images seemed just slightly out of
> focus, sort of an uninvited "soft focus."
>
> Was pulling my hair out, trying to find a reason for this....was there
> an autofocus problem? Was my new D70 defective somehow??
>
> Panic, Panic, etc, lol.
>
>
> Then it dawned on me, it is my computer's flat-panel monitor which is
> out-of-focus, not the camera, thank God!!
>
> Anyone else here experience the same thing??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mert


No, but it could happen on any monitor.
For best results with digital photography, good glass-tube monitors
still are the best.


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incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?

Harry Krause <> wrote:

>mert wrote:
>> Then it dawned on me, it is my computer's flat-panel monitor which is
>> out-of-focus, not the camera, thank God!!
>> Anyone else here experience the same thing??

>No, but it could happen on any monitor.
>For best results with digital photography, good glass-tube monitors
>still are the best.

Though an LCD is more likely to have user-accessible focus adjustment
than basic CRTs, isn't it?

--
Ken Tough

Harry Krause wrote:
[]
> No, but it could happen on any monitor.
> For best results with digital photography, good glass-tube monitors
> still are the best.

.... but more likely to drift out of focus!

Cheers,
David

On 3 Oct 2004 10:12:00 -0700, (mert) wrote:

>Started noticing lately my D70's images seemed just slightly out of
>focus, sort of an uninvited "soft focus."
>
>Was pulling my hair out, trying to find a reason for this....was there
>an autofocus problem? Was my new D70 defective somehow??
>
>Panic, Panic, etc, lol.
>
>
>Then it dawned on me, it is my computer's flat-panel monitor which is
>out-of-focus, not the camera, thank God!!
>
>Anyone else here experience the same thing??

Do you mean LCD monitor? You have to run them at maximum size or they blur.



>Thanks,
>
>Mert

Ken Tough wrote:
[]
> Though an LCD is more likely to have user-accessible focus adjustment
> than basic CRTs, isn't it?

I've never seen and LCD/TFT monitor with a focus adjustment - you are
looking at the pixels directly! If the monitor is part of an EVF system,
it may have a diopter adjustment, of course.

If you drive an LCD monitor at anything other than its natural screen
resolution, it will need to interpolate the pixels, and this may cause
unsharpness, but this is /not/ lack of focus.

Cheers,
David

David J Taylor wrote:
>Ken Tough wrote:
>> Though an LCD is more likely to have user-accessible focus adjustment
>> than basic CRTs, isn't it?

>I've never seen and LCD/TFT monitor with a focus adjustment - you are
>looking at the pixels directly! If the monitor is part of an EVF system,
>it may have a diopter adjustment, of course.
>
>If you drive an LCD monitor at anything other than its natural screen
>resolution, it will need to interpolate the pixels, and this may cause
>unsharpness, but this is /not/ lack of focus.

My NEC MultiSync 1525V has a menu option for horizontal 'fine adjust'
which appears to affect the sharpness, though I'm driving it at its
natural screen resolution. Seems it might have something to do with
clock phase? That's the one I was referring to; obviously it's not
the same sort of 'focus' as a CRT...

--
Ken Tough

Ken Tough wrote:

> David J Taylor wrote:
>
>>Ken Tough wrote:
>>
>>>Though an LCD is more likely to have user-accessible focus adjustment
>>>than basic CRTs, isn't it?
>
>
>>I've never seen and LCD/TFT monitor with a focus adjustment - you are
>>looking at the pixels directly! If the monitor is part of an EVF system,
>>it may have a diopter adjustment, of course.
>>
>>If you drive an LCD monitor at anything other than its natural screen
>>resolution, it will need to interpolate the pixels, and this may cause
>>unsharpness, but this is /not/ lack of focus.
>
>
> My NEC MultiSync 1525V has a menu option for horizontal 'fine adjust'
> which appears to affect the sharpness, though I'm driving it at its
> natural screen resolution. Seems it might have something to do with
> clock phase? That's the one I was referring to; obviously it's not
> the same sort of 'focus' as a CRT...
>


I've never seen a CRT without a focus adjustment, albeit most are under
the hood. This Sony Multiscan 21sf has been focus tweaked more than
once over the years.

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David J Taylor wrote:

> Ken Tough wrote:
> []
>
>>Though an LCD is more likely to have user-accessible focus adjustment
>>than basic CRTs, isn't it?
>
>
> I've never seen and LCD/TFT monitor with a focus adjustment - you are
> looking at the pixels directly! If the monitor is part of an EVF system,
> it may have a diopter adjustment, of course.
>
> If you drive an LCD monitor at anything other than its natural screen
> resolution, it will need to interpolate the pixels, and this may cause
> unsharpness, but this is /not/ lack of focus.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>


Another question has come to mind... The diopter adj on the EVF
viewer... I presume this is an optical variance to view the EVF image
through? or is it an actual image adjustment of some sort?

I'm sorry, I'm still learning...

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Jer wrote:
[]
> Another question has come to mind... The diopter adj on the EVF
> viewer... I presume this is an optical variance to view the EVF image
> through? or is it an actual image adjustment of some sort?
>
> I'm sorry, I'm still learning...

Yes, it allows for eyes where the natural resting focus isn't infinity,
just like the dipoter adjustment on other pieces of equipment like
microscopes.

David