I think I understand now. Perhaps you can tilt the plane such that the tilted plane runs through the branches at 2 m and the trees at 10m , and calculate , hope that the DOF around the tilted plane (very narrow near the camera, getting wider and wider further away). Perhaps you can see this DOF limit by stoping down, or..you could calculate and visualize according to Bob Wheelter (I realy sound like his disciple now, but I am not that much of a nerd..;-).. I do like the theory, and read about it, less shure if I would use it often). Anyway next to his software he wrote a manual (.pdf) which contains diagrams about tilted planes and DOF, perhaps helpful. He claims that you can actually see the DOF limits of a (tilted) plane at the widest F stop by moving the back panel up or down a given distance, did not try that one though..guess it should work Good luck, Cor ________________________________________ From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin F. Knotzke Sent: maandag 3 december 2007 19:45 To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Large Format Tilt On 03/12/2007, Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Point a laser pointer at it and focus on the dot?? Crap, and I just sold my phaser to captain kirk. ;-) The problem isn't so much being able to find the actual point to focus on.. The problem is that I don't know how to focus correctly in this situation. The best way to explain this is as follows: Picture a scene that has three focal distances, 2 m, 5m, 10m. Which is to say at the bottom of the image is the pond with leaves at 5m, in the middle is over hanging branches at 2m, and at the back are more trees at 10m. What technique should I use to focus correctly ? Thanks J -- Justin F. Knotzke jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.shampoo.ca ============================================================================================================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.