Slow down, Dan. That feature isn't scheduled until 2009.
Chuck Norcutt
Dan Mitchell wrote:
> Moose wrote:
>> A perfectly accurate AF, when you located the AF point on your subjects
>> eye, would ask you whether you wanted the focal plane at the nearest
>> point of the roughly spherical object it detects, the deepest visible
>> point of it, or at an average. Then it would want a discussion of the
>> amount and desired direction of DOF.
>
> One thing that I'd really like would be a numeric display of DOF --
> the camera knows what lens I'm using, what the focal length is, what the
> aperture will be when it stops down to take the photo, so it can do the
> math to tell me how much DOF I have.
>
> Sure, I can hit the 'stop down' button, but I very rarely find that to
> be much use -- even on OMs with big bright viewfinders, I can't tell
> which bits of the image will be in focus in the final thing, or at least
> not well enough to be useful.
>
>
> (now, this is one place where a lot of AF spots and some whizbang
> computing could possibly be handy -- while the camera is racking focus
> back and forth to get things "in focus", it could track the in-focus
> distance to each focus point.
>
> That then gives it a 3-d model of the world, because it knows how far
> away the world is at each of the AF points -- and it could then
> interpolate, and _highlight_ the bit of the image that would be in
> focus.. This only works as long as the world is 'smooth' between AF
> spots, of course, but I think otherwise it should theoretically be
> possible.)
>
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