Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 07:33:43 -0700 From: "Aram Langhans" <langhans@yakima-wa.com> Subject: [Leica] RF question from an SLR kind of guy Message-ID: <000b01c25744$bcd714c0$1c820043@pcr> References: <200209072348.QAA23465@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Just been looking through some of the photos referenced in the last digest. While looking at Neal's sunflowers, it hit me (the question, not the sunflower). How do you rangefinder people know the appropriate f-stop to use to get the DOF you want? I know there is a DOF scale, but that doesn't tell you how a particular background will react to a given f-stop. Do you take many photos at different stops and choose the best????? Is it just experience? Aram, Really it is both experience and several different f-stops. I did take several exposures at full aperture, f2, some at middle aperture, f8, and a couple closed all the way down, f16. I did have an idea of about what they would produce and thought that the middle one would be the keeper. Neal - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html