Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002, at 13:26 America/Los_Angeles, Johnny Deadman wrote: > Zone focussing is one of the biggest reasons for boring photographs I > know. f/11 wide-angle middle distance 1/125 blah. Unless you're Garry > Winogrand you have to do better than that I think. You don't have to zone focus with only small apertures: f/11 is so damn close to hyperfocal for many distances, that it matters little. I was talking more about f/4 or f/5.6 on a 35mm, focus set around 3m. That gives you something on the order of a 2.5m -> 5m zone. Or focus at 2m, and you've got roughly 1.5m -> 3m. *That's* a zone. At f/11, you're looking at 1.5m -> 50m. That's not a zone. That's a territorial claim. M. - -- Martin Howard mvhoward@mac.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html