DOF Preview Button: What it is and How to Use it

Photography Ideas: Upside Down Photography

SIRI Technology in the Canon EOS 5D Mark II? Seriously?

Photography Business Tips: 7 Tips for Stock Photo Selling

Beginner’s Guide to Photography: Easy ways to photograph the moon

Inspiring Story: Rusidah, an Armless Photographer

Download Photography PDF: Canon EOS 600D User’s Manual

Nikon D90 for Dummies

What and how to get a Prominent Point of Interest in Photography

A Brief History of Canon Cameras

What Photographers should Know: Focal Plane Mark

Posted by admin On June - 14 - 2012

Focal Plane Mark

Focal Plane Mark




Do you own an SLR or DLSR camera? Try and pay attention to the top part of the camera. Find the Greek letter Phi a circle divided in half by a long line mark that’s usually placed not far from the view finder. Maybe this feature is familiar to those who’ve been into photography for a long period of time, but for those starting out, do you know what the symbol mean?


This mark is the focal plane mark. A mark signifying the placement of the camera’s sensor or negative film that’s been inserted in the camera body. Not many really know the function of this focal plane mark, when in fact his feature is intended for photographing macro objects. Sometimes when photographing in macro, photographers want to find out the accurate distance between the object and the camera’s focal plane. And that’s where the focal plane mark comes into play.


S p o n s o r e d L i n k s


One Response to “What Photographers should Know: Focal Plane Mark”

  1. seniman fotografi says:

    wow nice share sob….^_^

Leave a Reply

Oneslidephotography