My eyes focus at multiple depths- which is the right one?

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Inheriting a Super 8 camera from your dad opens up a world of creative possibilities for your band’s music video. However, navigating the focusing ring can present challenges, especially when your eyes seem to adapt to multiple depths of focus. This morning, you discovered that your vision adjusted easily at various distances, from zero to infinity when zoomed out, and between two to six feet when zoomed in. The question arises: which focal point will yield the clearest image on film?

So I inherited my dad's super 8 camera, and I thought it might be fun to shoot some film for a music video for my band on it.

Now, it has a focusing ring on the lens, but i have the problem that the image looks focused to me at a range of positions. Like, I'll bring the image into focus, and then I'll adjust the ring, and everything blurs out for a moment, then my eyes adjust and everything snaps back into focus, then I adjust it again, and again the image in the viewfinder blurs out, then my eyes adjust and it snaps back into focus again.

In my kitchen this morning i was able to focus my eyes with the focus on the camera set anywhere between zero and infinity while zoomed out, and between 2 and 6 feet while zoomed all the way in (if im reading the numbers on the camera right). Which one is going to look correct on the film?

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