On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:19:09 -0500, Herb Chong wrote: >Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>The aperture range on offer was f2 to f8. How can >you get any descent depth of field with that!< > >digital cameras have different expectations on DOF. you are shooting with a >9mm lens at the wide end, not the equivalent 35mm format of 35mm focal >length. how close were you to the subjects and did you test a film camera >for its ability to focus on the same thing? low contrast white figurines on >a light background would give a lot of cameras i know problems, and not >figuring out how to use the manual focus on objects that are hard to focus >on is a waste of time, isn't it? weren't you on a tripod and could measure >subject to camera distance? i have gotten very good results under more >difficult situations trying to photograph moving subjects.
My Z1p and MZ-S have no problems with focusing under these conditions. I was using a tripod (exposure was down to half a second at times) and I could measure the subject to lens distance, but as there is no scale on the lens or on the display it does me little good. To use the manual focus you have to press a button and turn a knob, but you still have to rely on a 1.5 inch LCD screen to know if it's in focus and while it looks like it is, the imported 5 megapixel picture shows that it wasn't. I have yet to find a digital camera (I'll admit to only having tried about 7 different models over time) that handles closeup work anywhere near as well as I want. I'm sorry I brought up depth of field, please just leave that in the depth of field argument, I'm of the "Depth of field is a product of end image magnification and aperture" school. Just take my word for it that it wasn't as good as I can get on my Fa100 f2.8 macro and 35mm film. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
