Focusing tips for night

[gt1]

I've been using my Koni Omega Rapids a lot at night for street stuff. I usually have major difficulty seeing the

rangefinder spot. I see some press cameras came with illuminated rangefinders in the past. Is there anything

else that works to be able to see the rangefinder spot when it's dark out? I try to scale focus but I end up

having to pull my flashlight out for that.<p>

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[razondetre]

Sure, you do what the guys did in the old days. You get a small strong searchlight and hold it up against the viewfinder. That will bounce around in there and you get two beams of light projected out of the front of the camera. Then you focus. When the two beams overlap, you are correctly focused.

 

If you don't like the old fangled stuff, why don't you go over to the hardware and by a sonic tape measure? You point the thing at whatever, push the button, it sends out an ultrasonic noise that bounces back to the instrument and you read the footage on the LCD readout. They are cheap.

[gt1]

<p>"Sure, you do what the guys did in the old days. You get a small strong searchlight and hold it up against the viewfinder. That will bounce around in there and you get two beams of light projected out of the front of the camera. Then you focus. When the two beams overlap, you are correctly focused."</p>

<p>So I'd be looking at the beams as they're projected through the front of the viewfinder? Rather than trying to put my eye and the light up to it at the same time?</p>

[ismael_gonzalez]

<p>My five cents, dont worry about it too much...Have you ever heard of hyperfocal distance?? then set you lens to the desire f stop and forget about focusing at night, it works every time....Hope it works...My best regards Ismael. I do have a Kiev range finder ( a cheap copy of Leica), the way I take pictures is with the hyperfocal distance, I just set the lens to the desire aperture and the rest is history, always sharp and in focus, day or night, if you use flash at night then set you flash to the proper exposure, then you may probably have to use sometimes a tripod, but at the end, it works every time.Good luck and I hope my advice works for you.</p>