On 9/16/2013 8:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
On 9/16/2013 19:36, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:22:53PM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I never heard of zone focusing as a term until you guys started
bandying it about..
I don't think I made the term up. I'm pretty sure that I've heard
it before.
I didn't think you had - I was just thinking it might have been
a more recent term..
But I needed something to describe pre-focusing on a range of
distances, the zone in which what you want to photograph may
be in.
I used to read photo mags a lot in the 70's and 80's but I never
actually took any courses whatsoever in photography or printing or
what not.. Never even read the Ansel bible... so how exactly does
"zone focusing" differ from what I did when looking only at the
barrel of my lens and making those critical numbers line up for
maximum depth of field while shooting fast enough (shooting TRI-X or
with the digital camera set at F 8 and 3 meters ? )
That's pretty much it. You needed to do it a lot more with a
rangefinder because you couldn't focus it fast enough to get the shot.
I never had used a rangefinder.. The idea of having it set was that you
didn't have to lift the camera to your eye to get a shot - which would
tip off the subjects you were taking your photo. OR shooting, as I
said earlier, from a moving vehicle
Or were you juat nailing the writer for explaing that manual
focusing for street shooting was good and we all know that anyway?
I don't know why it was originally posted, but I ran into his
using "hyperfocal distance", which has a specific meaning. I.e.
zone focusing that just exactly extends to infinity, for zone
focusing, which doesn't extend to infinity. Kind of like using
Greenwich Village to refer to all of New York City.
I would say that you had to reverse that line to make that work :-)
I used the hyperfocal distance setting (in my sense of it) downward as
well.. so things would be in focus from very near to maybe 15 feet away.
ann
That's zone focusing, hyperfocal distance is related but different, in
that it's special.
On 9/16/2013 19:00, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:53:53PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
In fairness to them, there are always new folks coming up the ladder
who haven't heard about what we may consider old hat.
But it lends a certain air of humor when they are editors and
"correct"
authors who use the terms correctly.
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