#HYPERFOCUS CALCULATOR MANUAL#

Hyperfocal distance allows you to get the most from from the focal range that your aperture produces. Since hyperfocal distance uses up every bit of the camera’s focal range, it’s a popular technique for maximizing sharpness in landscape photos, but in can be used for any image where you want both the background and other objects in the photograph to be sharp. So, when you place the farthest end of the focus range at infinity, you get a sharp background but you still get to use the rest of that range to keep other details sharp. Remember, focusing at infinity captures a sharp background.

Hyperfocal distance follows a similar concept, only instead of focusing on the middle object, the focus is set so that the farthest end of that range sits at infinity. By focusing on the middle, the closest part of that range hits the front row while the farthest part of that range still catches the back row, resulting in three rows of faces that are all still sharp. If you focus instead on the first row, half that focal range will be wasted on empty space in front of the group. Ideally, you should place the focal point on someone in that middle row. Say you are taking a group photo with three rows of people. To truly take advantage of the entire range, you must use both the distance before the focal point and after.

#HYPERFOCUS CALCULATOR MANUAL#

The focal point that you use for autofocus - or the distance you set in manual focus - has space both before and after that point that can still appear acceptably sharp. Hyperfocal distance is simply a technique that allows photographers to use every bit of that focus range to their advantage for a sharp image with a wide depth of field. Using aperture, then, you can you can take a photograph where multiple objects at different distances still appear sharp. If you’re shooting at f/1.8, you have a few millimeters before and after your focal point that will still appear sharp, while if you’re shooting at f/11, you may have a few feet before and after the actual focal point that will still appear sharp.

If you understand depth of field, you are probably familiar with the idea that any given photograph has a range of distance where the objects will appear sharp, not just one exact spot. In this sense of the word, hyperfocal means using every bit of the image’s focal range to your advantage.

Hyperfocus calculator