Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Re: Bokeh vs. Nukeh, WYSIWYG
From: telyt560@cswebmail.com
Date: 29 Aug 2000 14:41:19 -0700

On Tue, 29 August 2000, Austin Franklin wrote:

> 
> > > I'd really be curious as to how many SLR users on this list actually 
> use
> > > the DOF preview???
> 
> > I do.  I find it very valuable for evaluating the degree to which areas 
> outside > the plane of focus, both foreground and background, will 
> influence the overall > look of the photo.  It's particularly useful with 
> long lenses and macro > subjects, where out-of-focus elements may appear as 
> a wash of color or as > an identifiable although out-of-focus object.  If 
> I'm stopping down for DOF and > I don't want some extremely out-of-focus 
> thing to become identifiable the > DOF preview is quite handy, to say the 
> least.
> 
> And you can't figure that out by the f-stop you are at, and looking at the 
> DOF scale on your lense?  Sure it has some use, but how do you determine 
> 'in focus' on the darkened fringe of the viewfinder of a 35mm camera?  As 
> you say, you can probably gauge whether it's 'identifiable' or not...but 
> certainly not sharp focus...

Austin,

I'm not using it to determine if something is going to be in focus.  I use the scales on the lens for that.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
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