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Subject: [Leica] What Is "Focus Peaking"
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert G Adler)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:37:58 -0700
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Dang. I've already sold all my children...

Bob Adler

On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> 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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