Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] Another mudflat bird
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:44:11 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
 
Howard Cummer wrote:

>Hi Doug,
>Excellent, as usual and expected. What F stop do you prefer for depth of 
>field?
>Thanks
>Howard
>
>Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:52:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
>Subject: [Leica] IMG: Another mudflat bird
>To: lug at leica-users.org
>
>A Black-necked Stilt, also at the Davis Wetlands:
>
>http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/recurvirostridae/bnstil02.html
>

In this case IIRC I was using f/8, but even with the extra DOF of the 
smaller aperture the entire bird isn't going to be in focus unless it's 
pretty much parallel to the image plane.  Thanks for looking and for taking 
the time to comment.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com