On 9/16/2013 8:08 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Sep 16, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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. 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.It's a common term, and I would define it as you have done. You select an aperture and a focus point. All that is within the DOF range is in the focus zone. Paul
Some cameras, even those that were moderately sophisticated, and fairly expensive had only zone focusing, a number of mid to high end Polaroids without rangefinders come immediately to mind.
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.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.ann 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.-- 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.-- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
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