Using your camera to measure distances can be very useful, even if you are not a golfer.<\/p>\n
You could focus on a subject and read off the focus distance on the lens but this is very imprecise.<\/p>\n
Another useless method would be to just measure how wide your camera is and then mark out how many cameras it is to your subject, but this requires a calculator and is time consuming and very impractical, and often impossible.<\/p>\n
An alternative AFTER you have taken the shot and got the image on the computer is to drop the file onto exiftool(-k).exe and this will display a lot of EXIF information in the image file including the recorded focus distance. You can download this free and excellent EXIFTool file from Phil Harvey’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> is the first, and still, the ONLY camera that I am aware of which has two unique, in-camera, brilliant focus functions:<\/p>\nBUT, the E-M1 Mark II has unique magic – measure BEFORE you shoot!<\/h2>\n
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