Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/18

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Subject: [Leica] What Is "Focus Peaking"
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:23:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Robert Adler wrote:

> It's a wonderful feature if you think about it. If your lens is finicky
>about having to be exactly mated to the body (Noctilux/75 'lux), you could
>live with a little back or front focus. If you could see what was in focus
>with these red lines (let's say the pupil of an eye against the white of
>the eye), just moving your head until the area you want in focus lights up
>would be terrific. Heck, even if your lens was perfectly mated, you'd get
>more in focus hits than before at wide open...

And it works on every part of the picture, not just the central rangefinder 
patch.  No more focus-recompose and its inevitable errors.

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




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