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Subject: [Leica] What Is "Focus Peaking"
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:38:31 -0700
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Brilliant!

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Frank <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> How much are grandchildren worth????
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert G Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sep 18, 2012 8:37 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] What Is "Focus Peaking"
>> 
>> 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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> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
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