At 09:52 AM 10/29/2004, Ken Hough wrote: >WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!!!! >Not one of anyones answers has addressed CAMERA MOVEMENTS! >Thats what LF is all about. Shoot with large as you can F stops and >camera movements. Come on folks! Use them DO NOT rely on tiny f >stops. >Ken That's great as long as your subject is on one plane. If you extend DOF in one direction (horizontal plane) with camera movements, you lose equal DOF on the opposite (vertical) plane. You still need a small f/stop to cover it all. Landscapes of flat fields, roads, stuff like that is great for getting DOF from your feet to infinity using camera movements. Put a few trees or a fence reasonably close to the camera, in the scene, and you cannot use camera movements to cover the needed DOF. This is why LF lenses frequently go to f/128. You can use a multitude of camera movements to gain a wee bit of DOF advantage when you have multiple planes in the scene. But small f/stops are still going to carry the ball in these cases. I frequently photograph large flat seascapes with DOF from my feet to infinity at f/8 or f/11 on my 4x5. But there is no vertical component. Just a rock sticking up a few feet anywhere near the camera and most is lost. You can reach a happy medium and then start stopping down until it all comes in focus. This puts you back at f/32 or f/45. :-) Jim ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.