[Leica] DOF of 80/1.4 at 1.4 slimmer than 50mm at 1.4?

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

I've found that one of my R8 bodies focuses more accurately with the DMR 
than the other one.
I'm having the focus of the less accurate adjusted by Kindermann.
Gary
 
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:33:55 -0400
> From: afirkin at afirkin.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] DOF of 80/1.4 at 1.4 slimmer than 50mm at 1.4?
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I've been playing with my DMR with the 80mm f1.4.
> >
> > I'm finding it a lot more difficult to use and capture proper focus at
> > f1.4 than I expected.
> >
> > Is the dof of an 80mm at f1.4 thinner than the dof of a 50mm at f1.4?
> >
> > And is this typical of what people found, using their rf 75mm Summiluxes
> > - very difficult to capture proper focus?
> >
> > I suppose it didn't help, trying to photograph a 7 month old boy, who
> > doesn't quite understand sitting still yet :-)
> >
> > Vick
> 
> 80 f1.4 is much shallower than the 50 in my experience with the Zeiss
> lens. I think we are all more "critical" of focus etc with digital:
> usually we never blew the 'snaps' up on a 30inch screen!!!!
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
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