"Troy Piggins" <usenet-0804@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>* Dudley Hanks wrote:
>> "Paul Furman" <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:1LSOj.21076$%41.20856@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Troy Piggins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hadn't thought about the hyperfocal DOF - I understand the theory
>>>> but at my skill level it's probably the last thing that occurs to
>>>> me.
>>>
>>> It doesn't occur to me much either but us critics have the advantage
of
>>> hindsight :-) Maybe I'll remember next time too.
>>>
>>>> I still have to think about lighting, composition,
>>>> whitebalance, aperture etc - I surprised myself to use the trees
>>>> for framing ;) Good advice though. I'll file it away for next
>>>> time a similar op****tunity arises.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Paul!
>>
>> Depending on your camera, hyperfocal is one of those things that can be
>> difficult for auto-everything cameras to accomplish. My A720 seems to
>> default to a hyperfocal type focus strategy, only deviating from it
when
>> the
>> subject is really close. Of course, with its smaller sensor, almost
>> evrything is almost always in focus...
>>
>> The Rebel XT is a bit different. It has a nice setting where the
camera
>> trys to figure out what is most likely to be the subject, or subjects,
>> and
>> then trys to keep it all in focus, ****fting the background out of focus
>> if
>> necessary / possible (the ADepth setting). But, using aperture
priority
>> or
>> shutter priority, hyperfocusing seems to be a bit of a challenge when
>> there
>> is something close up front you'd rather not ****ft into a blur.
>>
>> For those of us who still yearn for "the good ole days" once and a
while,
>> hyperfocusing was really easy to do with most manual focus cameras. A
>> good
>> ****tion of my shots were taken using that strategy...
> <snip />
>
> I actually have a DOF calculator on my XDA/phone which calculates
> depth of field and hyperfocal distance for whatever camera
> body/sensor, focal length, aperture, and working distance you
> choose to input. It's basically a Windows Mobile version of
> http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
>
> Of course, it needs to occur to me at the time to use
> hyperfocusing for all that to be any use... :)
>
> --
Now, that is handy. All I got with my phone is a digital voice recorder
that holds about 2 minutes of sound.
Take Care,
Dudley
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