Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I think it's a >>real shame that they were left off the Tri-Elmar. WA photos at small >>aperatures is where DOF marks are the most usefull and this is precisely >>what the Tri-Elmar is used for. >> >That would be an engineering feat. Having changeable DOF marks. If they >made them in different colors... what a nightmare! >>Jim What I had in mind was a single distance scale on the focussing ring and 3 separate sets of DOF marks on an adjacent 'zooming' ring set up so that the right set of DOF marks would line up with the distance scale. This was probably rejected as beind to clutered like you alude, or maybe this would have necesitated the travel on the zooming ring to be too large to prevent the DOF scales from overlaping.