On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > >>IIRC, film SLRs had B&W screens near >>the end just to mange all of their electronic options. > > I think Minolta had one with a rear-panel LCD. It would give you such > information as your depth of field - with near and far distance limits > - for the lens, aperture and focus distance you had set. I'd like to > have that feature now and I'm surprised no one offers it.
The Ricoh GXR has this feature with the autofocus camera units: switch to manual focus mode and you get a focusing scale on the LCD or EVF which shows the precise focus distance and the DoF range marked for the aperture setting. It's very accurate and amazingly handy. I use it a lot with the A12 50 and A12 28 camera units. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
