>
> You can use the OM's focusing scale for hyperfocal setting as long as
> you use the scale at two stops wider. eg: if you have the 21mm mounted
> on the E-1 and set at f/8 the actual hyperfocal distance is approx. 11
> feet and giving a closest focus of 5-1/2 feet. But to use the OM scale
> you'd have to consider the OM hyperfocal scale as being read as though
> set to f/4. Probably easier to set the hyperfocal distance first as
> though using an OM and then close down two stops.
>
We CAN shoot the digitals like some film cameras and do tricks like
hyperfocal, but do we? We CAN shoot our cameras in manual-exposure mode, but
do we? We CAN avoid chimping, but do we?
You are absolutely correct, and I do occasionally choose to do that very
thing with a 24/2.8 mounted on the E-1. I'd probably do something similar
with the EP-1. And I do hyperfocal the Minolta A1 as often as not to get it
a little more responsive. But as a general rule, I tend to devolve and just
stick it in auto mode and shoot away chimping as I go along to make sure
things are halfway recoverable in RAW conversion. It's possible that I'm
alone on this, though. I can accept that. It seems that when confronted with
automation I tend to use it. When I was a kid I had to get up off the sofa
to change channels on the color tv. Now I use the remote.
:)
AG (uphill both ways) Schnozz
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