On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Adam Maas wrote: >> Use a laptop instead of a 23" monitor, transferring your storage card >> to the computer to read it. Do it combined with focus bracketing. > > Yep, take 6lbs of gear instead of a few ounces. Not practical for most > people, especially since you're already carrying a good tripod for > this > sort of work.
If you use focus bracketing, you don't need the laptop with you. All you need is a few memory cards and/or a Portable Storage Device. Discard the ones that you didn't get the plane of focus right later. > That's essentiall how I do things with my D50, although I use a 1.17x > magnifier (DK-21M eyepiece, works on Pentax DSLR's too). Note some > of us > are doing art with their macro work though, even if you aren't. > Personally I find the angle finders awkward, mostly due to the > mechanical connections, an issue that doesn't exist with the LX or F3 > high magnification finders. Pentax Magnifier FB (2x) is what I use for critical focus work. It's way more than enough. Particularly with the custom Katz Eye screen I'm using now. I only use an angle finder when I need to get low or at weird angles, then they're invaluable ... the Olympus VariMagni gives me 1.5x and 2.5x ... otherwise they're awkward as heck. With either of these, the choice of focus plane when focus bracketing becomes more of an aesthetic issue than an accuracy issue. I find I'm never really off the mark, but sometimes a different mark is better. >> Different technology, different ways of working. What is a huge >> advantage for one is not necessarily of much value for the other. >> > > Won't disagree there. :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
