Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Forget about depth of field scales
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:29:26 -0800

>Mitch Alland wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>> Timothy R. Kuntz
>> >What about the 'focus about 1/3 of the distance into the
>> >picture"?
>> 
>> The Merklinger articles show convincingly that focusing at infinity will, 
>in most cases of "general landscapes" lead to much sharper pictures.
>> 
>> --Mitch
>

At 10:05 AM 4/3/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>Don't listen to that Merklinger!
>Listen to Rablinger!!!!!
>
>Merk Rabiner

I read the Murky Merklinger books and was unimpressed. My own likes and
conclusions from my own tests are like Mark Rabiner's. Focusing at infinity
for landscapes makes no sense to me. I don't like the result. But... to
each his own!

Jim