Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:49 AM 5/19/97 -0600, you wrote: >LUGsters, >... >The face just melts into a smooth, non-literal form, leaving the >background sharp as nails. I don't know how to calculate this, but the >foreground DOF is much smaller than the background DOF at 1.4. With the >1.4/35 I can really blow the foreground to bokeh hell, as compared to the >background. Anyone know why? > >Anyway, as to someone's comments about the S'lux v. the S'cron 35s at >maximum aperture: I think what you're seeing as far as differing sharpness >is DOF. > >Other than that, I have nothing to write. > >,/8^j > For anybody that is interested, there is a great dissertation on DOF at the following URL: http://fox.nstn.ca/~hmmerk/HMbook14.html Jim