Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > I'd really be curious as to how many SLR users on this list actually use > > the DOF preview??? > I do. I find it very valuable for evaluating the degree to which areas outside > the plane of focus, both foreground and background, will influence the overall > look of the photo. It's particularly useful with long lenses and macro > subjects, where out-of-focus elements may appear as a wash of color or as > an identifiable although out-of-focus object. If I'm stopping down for DOF and > I don't want some extremely out-of-focus thing to become identifiable the > DOF preview is quite handy, to say the least. And you can't figure that out by the f-stop you are at, and looking at the DOF scale on your lense? Sure it has some use, but how do you determine 'in focus' on the darkened fringe of the viewfinder of a 35mm camera? As you say, you can probably gauge whether it's 'identifiable' or not...but certainly not sharp focus...