Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/01

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Subject: [Leica] M8 & Depth of Field --BAH!
From: leewaileong19 at yahoo.com (Lee Wai Leong)
Date: Wed Nov 1 07:51:02 2006

"You know, if you guys have the time to futz around with numbers all day, 
you probably aren't taking many pictures."

You know, no one who uses hyperfocal distance or DOF actually remembers the 
nos. We do it by looking at the DOF scale. The manufacturers know the 
numbers and mark it for us on the lens. We shoot when we think we have a 
picture. We don't compute numbers before we shoot.
  
"Some of my lenses don't even have DOF scales. I never look at the ones that 
do." 

Such a pity. Leica shooters bemoan the lack of DOF scales on autofocus SLR 
lenses because it gives them no way to do hyerfocal distance focusing on the 
sly..., or to shoot landscapes with both foreground and background in focus.


Lee Wai Leong 

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