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Re: [OM] Straight from the DIY departement...

Subject: Re: [OM] Straight from the DIY departement...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:49:00 -0500
Actually, one of the focal lengths listed is 24mm for the Zuiko 24/2.8.
It's easier and more accurate to work from my cheat sheet than to depend 
on the sparsely populated DOF scale.

Chuck Norcutt


Ken Norton wrote:
>> I keep a small card in my wallet with a few selected focal lengths
>> computed at f/11 for use with my 5D.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm so thankful for the advancements in cameras and lenses. Removing the DoF
> scales from the lenses was the greatest thing the manufactures did. Why have
> the scales on the lenses when we can have the computations written out on a
> card in our wallet?
> 
> I would put this advancement just behind the most incredible
> improvement--the removal of the aperture control ring.  Why have a separate
> control which the left hand can control when we can have mode buttons and
> dials instead? Now our trigger finger can adjust aperture between shots.  Or
> is it the thumb wheel? Or is the thumb wheel and a press of a mode button?
> Do you turn it to the right or the left?  Regardless, it's still better than
> those pesky dedicated aperture control rings.
> 
> Excuse me while I go replace a lens battery...
> 
> AG
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