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Subject: [Leica] M8 & Depth of Field --BAH!
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Wed Nov 1 06:38:31 2006
References: <be4.7a0cd07.327a047d@aol.com>

Sonny

I've been trying not to spill hypotenuse on my good shirts for years. :-)




SonC@aol.com wrote:

> 
> 
>Lee Wai Leong wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>confusion is sometimes calculated as  d/1730 where d is the diagonal 
>>>      
>>>
>measure of the >>original image (the camera  format). For full-frame 35 mm 
>format 
>(24 mm ? 36 mm, 43 mm >>diagonal)  this comes out to be 0.024 mm
>
> 
>You know, if you guys have the time to futz around with numbers all day,  
>you 
>probably aren't taking many pictures.  
> 
>Some of my lenses don't even have DOF scales.  I never look at  the ones 
>that 
>do. 
> 
>Here's my trick.  I get a new lens, and shoot with it some until I see  
>what 
>it can do.  I get completely comfortable with it; shoot only with it  until 
>I 
>know the characteristics by seeing the pictures.  
> 
>The nominal focal length, the angle of the hypotenuse, the phase of the  
>moon, none of that stuff enters my head.  I just learn what I can do with  
>the 
>lens.  I do that by taking pictures.  
> 
>Geez, I'm sounding more and more like Ted.  ;-)
>
> 
>
>Regards,  
>Sonny
>http://www.sonc.com
>Natchitoches, Louisiana
>Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
>?galit?, libert?,  crawfish
>
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