Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The purpose of stopping down while looking at a ground glass is solely to assess and adjust the desired FOCUS and the desired DOF. Nothing more. The fact that the screen goes dark is an obvious artifact of the process. Stop down, less light coming through, more DOF, less Bokeh, etc. So it is indeed WYSIWYG in the "intended respects." If you, however, after adjusting your focus on the dark GG screen, use the wrong shutter speed (too fast) for the film type being used, your final film image and resultant print will indeed look like the dark GG. As I said earlier, stopping down to check DOF so that Scheimpflug and f/stop characteristics can be adjusted, is the staple method of the professional photography trade. With a little intelligence interjected, what you see on the GG is what you get. Jim At 08:41 AM 8/29/00 -0700, Pete Su wrote: >> Used properly, WYSIWYG. Exactly. > >In principle yes, but in practice not really. The reality if that if you stop >the lens down, what you see is at best an odd version of your picture where the >things that should be in focus in the final print will be, but where everything >else is out of whack. Everything is darker than it will be on the film, details >are lost, and really checking focus becomes hard without putting a jacket over >your head. > >I wouldn't call this WYSIWYG. > >Pete