Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sheesh guys, I really wasn't on drugs when I wrote that. What I meant to say was subject matter determines where to place the optimum plane of focus, and that with practice it becomes second nature. (Not unlike writing when you're not dog tired). :-P on 07/21/03 7:43 PM, Eric Welch at eric@jphotog.com wrote: > on 07/21/03 10:41 AM, Steve LeHuray at steve@streetphoto.net wrote: > >> I am not so >> sure that being calibrated matters at medium apertures or for wide lenses. > > It absolutely counts. No matter how much depth of field a lens demostrates, > there is always an optimum plane of focus, and that's where you want to > place the eyes on a portrait subject. Other kinds of subjects will vary that > practice. But no matter what. Optimum focus should always be practice. > > I'm not a believer in "F8 and be there" except in cases of extreme speed > required to get the shot. > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in > practice, there is." - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Eric Carlsbad, CA All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html