#zone focusing

Making the Best Use of Your Photo Gear for Street Photography

Since we’ve been publishing a lot of gear round ups due to it being the end of the year, we also want to ensure that you know how to use the gear. If you’re looking to get into street photography with your shiny new purchases, you’ll be delighted to know that we’ve published lots of tutorials on how to use your photo gear in situations like this.

But we’ve also done a lot of thinking on the…

One of the things that the LC-A is different from most of other cameras is the way that it focuses. The camera is manual focused so the photographer actually needs to choose the focusing distance before taking a picture. But instead of a smooth scroll focus ring, the LC-A has a small knob next to the lens with next to it are markings: 0.8, 1.5, 3.0, and infinity. These are distances in meters.

When you focus, you do not see the result through the viewfinder (as the camera is not a SLR.) You will need to guess how far your subject is from you. 

This sounds like a total guess work for taking a picture, but once you know your camera and the relative distances of how far things are away from you this becomes second nature. And don't forget that Lomography is all about having fun an shooting picture without thinking. You might get great pictures even though the focus is a little off.