Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Forget about depth of field scales
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:03:59 -0800
 
At 11:52 PM -0400 4/2/00, Mitch Alland wrote:
>>>>>> Timothy R. Kuntz
>>What about the 'focus about 1/3 of the distance into the
>>picture"?
>
>The Merklinger articles show convincingly that focusing at infinity will,
>in most cases of "general landscapes" lead to much sharper pictures.
>
>--Mitch

Whatever is a 'general landscape'? I only take pictures of 'specific
landscapes'.

I respect a lot of what Merklinger has written, but this part doesn't
impress me.

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