Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]okay, i understand how hyperfocal distance works--in fact, i used it today while walking around scaring the bezeesus out of people on the streets of chicago by unexpectedly taking their pictures--but what about hypofocal (???)[1] distance? for instance, say i stop my lens down all the way, then focus it all the way to the *closest* focusing distance. i know i have some depth of field *closer* than the plane of focus, but i don't know how much. is there a formula for calculating this? [1] i'm totally aware that "hypofocal distance" is probably something i just made up. if so, i get the neologism of the day award. and for once, a new word and/or phrase i created isn't dirty. momma's gonna be so proud. - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." --Calvin and Hobbes "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen not only cares about America, he is America, and what's even better, he understands just how fucked up it is and has always been to be an American, the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world. --Joey Sweeney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html