Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Focusing a 75 1.4 -- mitch's question
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:51:55 -0700

on 07/20/03 6:44 PM, Mitch Alland at malland@xsmail.com wrote:

> Perhaps even shooting at f/1.7 (I mean halfway between 1.4 and 2.0)
> would increase DOF sufficiently to make focussing not a problem,
> although I haven't tried this yet. If someone knows he or she can tell
> us.

If thinking it does helps, I guess, then, that it does! :-)

I suspect that it might help minimally. But you still have to focus
correctly, and develop good camera handling technique to handle fast tele
lenses.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.jphotog.com

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his
neighbors because he hath more gold, how much more inferior is he to a gold
mine. 
 - Jeremy Taylor

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