[Leica] Hyperfocal distance shooting, how to?

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

remember when rolleis and hasselblad C lenses had those neato
DOF markers that moved when you set the aperture?

-rei

On Aug28 16:10, Bill O'Connell wrote:
> Scott,
>   With that lens, the scale is under the window and the distance is in the
> window between NIKON and 35 D.  Since they only printed 22, 16, and 11, you
> would have to guess 8, 5.6, 4, 2.8 and 2.  Concept works just like Ric
> mentioned. For example, rotate the lens so the Infinity mark is over the 22
> pre-printed below it, then look at the number over the 22 on the right.
> that number tells you the closest distance 'in focus' I don't have that 
> lens
> so I can't check the actual number.
> Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+woc2=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+woc2=earthlink.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
> Scott McLoughlin
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 11:56 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hyperfocal distance shooting, how to?
> 
> 
> I was trying to figure out the DOF scale on a Nikon 35/2 AFD the
> other day. LMAO, I couldn't really figure it out.  I just found a
> DOF calculator on the Web and wrote down a few aperture/distance
> pairs.  Gotta write 'em down on some tape and stick it on the
> lens.
> 
> Scott
> 

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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey