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Subject: [Leica] Friday Flowers (actually Saturday leaves)
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:23:39 -0700
References: <002401cc32d7$09fc2a20$1df47e60$@chiaroscuro.co.nz>

Enjoyed you non-flower display.

May I make a suggestion. On your first picture, the leftmost leaf is 
out of focus; this was probably not intended. The small depth of 
field using a 90mm lens surprised me at first, and the engraved DOF 
scale on the lens is practically useless at short distances. 
Photographing flowers, I found that one petal would be sharp and 
another fuzzy.

My PDA has a DOF application and I found that for close ups f/8 gave 
me a few inches DOF, adequate to insure a sharp flower and still 
throwing the background out of focus.

Cheers,

Herb


>Saturday afternoon here, but we have passed the winter equinox :-) No
>flowers but some cherry tree leaves....
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Flowers/Autumnal.jpg.html
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Flowers/TrioPlusOne.jpg.html
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Flowers/RedLeaves.jpg.html
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Flowers/RedLeaves-crop.jpg.html
>- crop of above
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Flowers/Solitary.jpg.html
>
>john
>
>M9 + 90mm Elmarit-M
>
>
>
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