09-07-2011, 08:10 AM
[quote name='Frank' timestamp='1315382437' post='11366']
Thank you for your advice, Klaus. I admit that I did not understand well what you wrote since I am lack of the knowlege of the "field curvature issue". Now I understand it better. A side question: is this the reason why the Merklinger method did not become polular?
Frank
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No... the reason is that in almost every photography book, on every website/forum hyper focal distance gets rehashed. Most people never read that article, let alone tried it to see the difference. And also, many people have just focussed on the most important subject in scenes, basically Merklinger when that subject is "at infinity", without ever have read his article.
The hyper focal distance idea is old, and lenses came with markings on them for hyper focal distances. With newer, better films, bigger enlargements and especially digital photography it gets more and more clear that HFD has downsides.
Thank you for your advice, Klaus. I admit that I did not understand well what you wrote since I am lack of the knowlege of the "field curvature issue". Now I understand it better. A side question: is this the reason why the Merklinger method did not become polular?
Frank
[/quote]
No... the reason is that in almost every photography book, on every website/forum hyper focal distance gets rehashed. Most people never read that article, let alone tried it to see the difference. And also, many people have just focussed on the most important subject in scenes, basically Merklinger when that subject is "at infinity", without ever have read his article.
The hyper focal distance idea is old, and lenses came with markings on them for hyper focal distances. With newer, better films, bigger enlargements and especially digital photography it gets more and more clear that HFD has downsides.