On Sep 16, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> 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 >> >> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
