How to manually Focus the lens to Infinity the RIGHT way. DSLR Photography tips

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This tutorial will teach you how to set the manual focus to infinity on any lens that can be manually focused.

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[PhotographersOnUTube]

Those who own a kit lens and don't have infinity sign. Set your lens to wide angle. 18mm. Then go out and focus on something that's really wide like a landscape. There shouldn't be anything near the lens for it to focus on. When you focus on a landscape the lens ring will move to infinity direction automatically. Just remember that direction. Next time you want to focus the lens manually to infinity, simply set the lens to manual and move the ring all the way in that direction which is infinity

[appygirl970]

Thank you Jamal love your video's they have help me so much

[PhotographersOnUTube]

@appygirl970 I have no idea who Jamal is lol. My name is Jibran haha.

[bpmuzik808]

how about for kit lenses

[PhotographersOnUTube]

@bpmuzik808 I don't own a kit lens but if the lens doesn't have manual focus then I'll have to do another video using a flash light to focus on a subject near by instead of a landscape. In that case auto focus will work. Once it's focused, turn off the flash light and press the cable release.

[shock196411]

whats infinity?

[PhotographersOnUTube]

@shock196411 When you get everything in focus that's in front of you. Auto focus doesn't work in dark so you have to manually focus the lens. Since I was doing mostly landscape stuff in the video I posted, I went with infinity focus.

[Psychomtlhead]

You said you would set your focus to infinity because you wouldn't shoot portraits....but COULD you do portrait shots effectively at all or where you have a subject close and want some landscape? Just curious. Thanks!

[sonnetg]

Great tip. Thanks for sharing this video.

[jsanchezbarazas]

one question, and how about the "new" prime lenses, like the 35mm 1.8G AF-S, which doesn't have that scale, how can i focus it to infinity? because I've done some night shots, and they look blurry, thank you very much.

[surferboy36O]

AF lenses suck! It seems like a lot of people are having problems because their focusing ring don't have distance markings, I couldn't believe my eyes! I suppose you all should just rotate it until it stops, or else test the lens in a bright day at a far away subject like a mountain with the lens on it's most tele focal lenth to see where exactly is it. This is done mostly in larger focal lenth lenses because of posible dilation due to the material's thermal expansion coefficient.

[TheSvRGlitcher]

@PhotographersOnUTube r u a muslim, anyways whoever u r , u're a gr8 guy and a gr8 teacher :)

[Shmangled]

You my friend, are a F@#$ING LEGEND!!! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOO much!!

[xriztof]

kit lens 18-55mm and 18-105mm dont have infinity symbol, except for 18-200mm. you got to have the little window on your lens to see this. just in case you don't see the infinity symbol put your f-stop to higher number f16 or f22