Originally posted by reh321 I came back after two days {and two pages} away from here, and discover that you are still wrapped up in your own little Oshun Street Video world. From your own comments, I gather that you neither understand nor respect street photographers;
i see that you've returned from being away for two days, and you still haven't understood anything that's been posted to this thread, lol... i'll try again.
Originally posted by reh321 That is part of why "Weegee" Fellig said "f/8 and be there"; he knew that if he set his camera at f/8 and set focus at a certain point
"focus at a certain point" ...focus exactly how, ACCURATELY, is the point of what's been said... you still don't get that, focusing distance has a radical effect on dof calculations.
as for dof itself, which is largely irrelevant to the main point above, weegee did most of his notable work on 4x5, at f/16, not f/8, focused at 10ft... so, using the same bogus dof calculators that everyone uses:
4x5, 127mm lens, f/16, 10' focusing distance = 6ft. dof
ff, 35mm lens, f/8, 10' focusing distance = 18ft. dof
so weegee didn't even use his own camera per his own dof recommendations, he should have been at f/32 on 4x5, in order to get the same f/8 dof that he told everyone else to use on what i guess was 35mm film, certainly not 4x5?
calculate the lens/aperture equivalence here:
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/calc.htm
that weegee thing has clearly been misunderstood and blown out of proportion.
Originally posted by reh321 In each location after the first, we arrived, panting, at the location just before the train. In the last two locations, the train was heading north, so our primary concern was how to deal with lighting that was less than ideal. In none of those cases, did we have time to fuss with focusing, and certainly we never would have had time to "chimp" and adjust our settings {for example, we wanted the entire train - perhaps 2000' long - to be in focus} if such a capability had been available.
"available"? it sounds like you are contradicting everything that you've said so far? the dof calculators
claim that infinity is possible with a 35mm lens on ff, at your "f/8 and be there" aperture, 20' focusing distance, so why be skeptical.