Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/23
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The narrower notch is for f 5.6 and the wider one for f16. If the
horizontal displacement of a vertical line is within the notch for the
given f stop, the line will be within the depth of field.
kw
>My Hove Leica pocket guide says that after 1958 M3s were outfitted with two
>notches in the rangefinder frame to allow determination of depth of field. I
>have a late M3 and I can see the two notches in the rf frame when looking
>through the viewfinder, but I have no idea how I could use them to estimate
>the dof. Any assistance in this respect would be most welcome.
>
>Regards,
>
> - Juan
>
>
>
> ========================================
> Juan F. Sanz Cervera
> Associate Professor of Chemistry
> Departamento de Quimica Organica
> Universidad de Valencia, Spain
> Juan.F.Sanz@uv.es
> ========================================
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