[Leica] Hyperfocal distance

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

I'd suggest a dollop of epoxy. It's sandable.


--- On Thu, 4/9/09, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hyperfocal distance
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 11:28 AM
> Sonny Carter wrote:
> 
> >>>
> We have never been able to domesticate auto-focus.  It does
> what it wants to
> most of the time.
> <<<
> 
> I'm still seething from my latest brush with camera
> automation.  It's one
> of those stories about the one(s) that got away: how I
> spent an hour
> paddling to the location, finding my subject and having the
> incredibly good
> fortune of having the loon eating a fish within 20' of
> the kayak in good
> light for at least a minute with flat water (stable kayak)
> and a perfect
> reflection in the water, and making several exposures while
> failing to
> notice the camera's mode switch had been bumped to (a)
> instead of where I
> thought I had left it, (m).  Maybe I made up the part about
> the fish but
> everything else is true.
> 
> Result: badly clipped highlights.  F*** automation, f***
> the
> does-it-all-if-you-can-set-the-switches-and-modes-right
> design mentality. 
> I want a digital SL with DMR image quality: an awesome
> viewfinder, RAW
> only, manual exposure only and (obviously) manual focus
> only; a histogram
> for review.  I'd rather concentrate on light &
> subject than modes, meter
> patterns, algorithms and overrides, especially when I also
> have to pay
> attention to wind, current, yaw, wakes and whether the
> paddle is falling
> overboard.  I had to restrain myself from pitching the
> thing into the lake.
> The f***ing mode switch is getting a healthy dose of
> gaffer's tape.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
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