Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's one of the things that get me about auto-focus cameras. Here we are discussing whether to focus on the far or near eye where autofocus cameras use 6 googelplex of focus points and blast away! Are we Leicaphiles doom to play with F1.4/F2 to have thin narrow DOF and miss out the fun of blasting away with F2.8/3.5 and fill flash? At 03:06 PM 10/9/2004, Phong wrote: >I made this error quite a bit early on when using >the 75mm or 90mm especially shooting with a >rangefinder from the shadow side; the far eye >is easier to focus with. It is an error only because >most of the time I prefer the near eye to be the one >more in focus, unless of course the contrast is high >and the near eye is in deep shadow. YMMV > >- Phong > > >Richard F. Man wrote: > > Can't speak for Don, but I notice that when I was printing out > > 11x14s that often the far eyes are more in focus. So this last > > weekend in yet another Anime con where I took 12 rolls of > > slides (will be up soon for your viewing pleasure and criticism), > >I noticed that my instinct was to focus on the FAR > > eye O_O. Since I knew about it, I tried changing the focus to the > > near eye. > > We will see how successful I was.... // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)