Here is an example of the type of photo that I think may be more difficult to visualize with an M6 than with an SLR, as suggested in the recent thread on Huger Foote using the M6:
While I could more or less visualize the out-of-focus area behind the plane of focus, I think its very difficult to visualize the large out-of-focus area at the bottom of the photo in front of the plane of focus. I would think that the effect of this image would be easier to see through a SLR. With an M6, one has to just shoot and then see how things come out on the slide tray. Huger Foote has many photos of this type in his book _My_Friend_from_Memphis_.
I am interested in these type of photos that depend on the relationship between the bokeh in front and behind the plane of focus to the areas that are in focus. I used an M-75/1.4 probably at f/2.
--Mitch/Bangkok
-- Mitch Alland (malland@mac.com), January 06, 2002
Mitch,
Although your image still isn't displaying in my browser for some
reason (Netscape 6.1), I did look at the image by scooping the URL
from the page source. While I understand your point, I'm not sure that
I'd get a better visualization of that scene with an SLR. At least to
my eye, the pattern on the SLR's focusing screen (micro-prism with
split image on mine) is enough to disrupt any real sense of the DOF
when near wide open. Stopped down, it's usually too dark for me to see
much.
For me, mentally visualizing the foreground would actually be easier
than the background (just squint a bit). In your shot, which I like,
dropping to 1.4 might have been even better, causing the focused
mid-ground flowers to "pop" more from the background. It is a rather
subjective area, though.
In y
-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 06, 2002.
