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- From: nicinski@fndaud.fnal.gov (Tom Nicinski)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Scheimpflug and depth-of-field
- Keywords: Scheimpflug depth-of-field
- Message-ID: <1hnd05INNkg5@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:20:05 GMT
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
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- How is depth-of-field (DOF) calculated when applying the Scheimpflug Rule? All
- the books and articles I've found hand-wave around this issue by drawing one very
- general graph.
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- When the film plane and lens plane are parallel, the DOF can be calculated quite
- simply, as the near and far DOF points are parallel to the film/lens planes. As
- most lenses are near flat field, the DOF boundaries will also be planar.
-
- But, when using a view camera where the film and lens planes are not parallel,
- how are the near and far DOF computed? The best I've figured out (and seems to
- match what I see in practice) is measure from the lens (front nodal point) to a
- point on the plane of focus and compute DOF along that "line of sight." Then,
- pick out another line of sight along the plane of focus. These computations
- result in a hyperbolic shape for the DOF limits. How correct is this method?
-