I have been meaning to post this. This table is DISTANCE based and is useful for getting your Hyper focal settings. I am not sure where I came across it, it was another photographers web site as reference material.
Here is how you use it:
- Double you distance of nearest object you want in focus, [this is the point you will focus on]
- Next on the left hand vertical side of the chart look up your lens length.
- Then scan across horizontally to the right to select your ‘doubled distance’
- Next look up vertically then put that f-stop setting into your camera.
very simple. (of coarse Prez, will tell you to just to just set it up by looking at your lens markings, but the markings went the way of the dodo bird, with these new digital lenses)
.. I’m going to give this a go..and post some pics later.
Other alternatives and discussions on Hyperfocal on this site
Here is a large file without any markings:
It’s amazing how far photography has progressed in the past decade but still has managed to take some steps backwards. Case in point, the depth of field scale that no longer appears on today’s digital lenses. What a simple and great tool to no longer have at your finger tips. If I wanted to shoot at f16 with my 50mm, I’d set my inf. mark at f16 and my near distance would be about 8 ft. and my 16mm @f 11 would be 1ft.-inf. All these calculations at a glance and it took no longer than 5 seconds to figure out and set. I guess that’s too complicated for todays photographers to figure out so we depend on the computer in our camera to some how work this out or carry along a DOF chart . Today’s digital photographers need to get back to learning the basics of photography so that they can use these wonderful new devises to their optimum. I think if Ansel were still alive, he’d set his digital camera to manual and use his mind’s computer to do the rest.
Ton Hogan just posted 3/23/10 an interesting article on this subject, which is a you may want to read…He provides considerable insight and interesting conclusion, he even discusses a few of Ansel Adams well known Images…