{"id":3551,"date":"2011-07-24T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2011-07-24T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:12:58","slug":"nikon-p7000-minimum-focus-in-macro-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Nikon P7000 minimum focus in macro mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-3552\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN0910.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3552\" title=\"DSCN0910\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN0910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN0910.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN0910-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a thorny issue, talking about the P7000&#8217;s focus which causes moments of wonderment, such as why didn&#8217;t it focus on the object in front\u00a0of it or why does it focus only after a second press of the shutter button.\u00a0 Most of the time it is great and I don&#8217;t expect perfection but I do like consistency.\u00a0 One area that I couldn&#8217;t find any info about was the minimum focus distance for different equivalent focal lengths.\u00a0 I suspect the value given in the spec. sheet is just for the widest lens setting.\u00a0\u00a0 So I did some testing and these are my results with a high contrast target and measuring to the front of the camera body.<\/p>\n<p>28mm&#8230;&#8230;1 3\/4&#8243; , 35mm&#8230;&#8230;2 1\/2&#8243; , 50mm&#8230;&#8230;6 3\/4&#8243; , 85mm&#8230;&#8230;..13 1\/4&#8243; , 105mm&#8230;&#8230;15&#8243; , 135mm&#8230;&#8230;.15 3\/4&#8243; , 200mm&#8230;&#8230;16 3\/4&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>Yes it looks odd to me as well to have the focal lengths in metric and the distance in imperial but that was the tape measure I had on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a thorny issue, talking about the P7000&#8217;s focus which causes moments of wonderment, such as why didn&#8217;t it focus on the object in front\u00a0of it or why does it focus only after a second press of the shutter button.\u00a0 Most of the time it is great and I don&#8217;t expect perfection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[366,180,179,364],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-cameras","tag-nikon","tag-p7000","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}