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Depth of field - one third two thirds


Martin K

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Yes, no esthetics, just optics, I agree. You can see it visualized and play with the settings in the calculator I wrote in Java for webbrowsers: click

 

As you can see, the default setting is a 24x36 mm camera, a Leica M, but you can also select other formats to see the effect.

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Undoubtedly. Do you have a reference? Thanks.

 

I have not really tried to track any of this down. I've seen excerpts from a couple of places (1880s, 1890s), treating front and rear d.o.f. In earlier sources you may see a more or less correct diagram but no formula given. Not too long after the century turns, you can find books with hyperfocal distance charts, and the "correct" formulae to get the front and rear d.o.f. from that. I bet it would be very hard to sort out who knew what, when. You can find facsimile copies of many 19th cent. works through Google books.

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