In article <4m52u9$1g1@gw.dgii.com>, john_radigan@dgii.com says...
>Can you explain in a little more detail the procedure you use to >"fudge" the hyperfocal distance
>toward infinity and then opening up a stop?
Umm, I close down a stop more from the smaller of the two stops recommended by the DOF scale for the near and infinity distances,
after fudging the lens focus a bit toward infinity. I do not
choose the "balanced" hyperfocal distance which would render
circles of confusion of out of focus points of near-infinity
and near-minimum-distance objects the same size (but which
renders images of the near-infinity subjects softer-looking
than the technically equally soft nearest subjects). The amount
of "fudge" depends on how important it is to have infinity-subjects sharp vs. the sharp apertures available, and the character of the
near subject material (sillouettes can stand much more softening
than sand, for instance, without looking unsharp).
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