[Leica] Don's PAW You did want images taken with the 75Summiluxdidn't you?

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard F. Man)]

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....

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