to view and print the files.

Cheers.

Thanks.

Janne

I appreciate your time and efforts in creating these charts for us to use....many thanks!

Marilyn

"In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World"
- Henry David Thoreau

I asked this another thread but never got a reply - maybe too dumb a question. For the 35mm, to get everything in focus from hyperfocal distance to infinity at 28mm, f8, would I have to focus at 1.95m (half of 3.9) - is that how the hyperfocal distance table works??
Thanks
:~

P.S. - just checked and my lens (28-80mm) doesn't have a focal measurements on it - maybe i should draw them on?! :|

Cheers
Andrew

A Kiwi Nikonian

You will have to estimate the distance and focus at that.
The complete set of tables, including those of Roger Rowlett, is now posted at the Guides

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>You will have to estimate the distance and focus at that.
>The complete set of tables, including those of Roger
>Rowlett, is now posted at
>the Guides
Greetings friends,
The complete set of tables ... do not appear to be accessible via the given link. Can any one help please.
many thanks.
lamin

A link was broken. Thank you. It has been updated now.
The page to dowload all tables is here:
http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/guides/dof/hyperfocal4.html

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Thanks for the the Nikon 5000 hyperfocal data!!!

I've already got a nice laminated card for 35mm cameras that covers 14mm-300mm lenses - made by Fotosharp (www.fotosharp.com)

Those tables for compact digitals are great! I have question related to my camera. I have the CoolPix 5700, and that I am aware of, there is no way to determine the focus distance or the focal length of the zoom. Unless of course you measure the distance from the lens to an object in focus and you set the zoom at either extreme (and then why would you need a table?). Am I missing something here?

Ernesto Santos
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Depending on your camera model, you may or may not get a readout of the current focal length. However, there will always be at least two positions you always know for sure: fully zoomed in or zoomed out. And most cameras go to a preset middle focal length when switched on. For my Olympus 3040Z, the long focal length is 21 mm, the short one 7 mm. When switched on it defaults to 11 mm. You can probably find these things out by taking several photos at these settings and looking in the EXIF headers of your files.

For distances, you can simply estimate and focus on an object at that distance, recompose, and shoot. Some cameras have a manual focusing mode with a distance readout. (That's what my Oly does.) You may discover parts of you body are useful for estimating short distances (outstretched hand = 2 feet, shoes = 4 feet, etc.)

The nice things about hyperfocal tables is that they are only guidelines. As long as you are focused at or beyond the hyperfocal distance, you know everything from half that distance to infinity will be acceptably sharp by some criterion. If you're a little bit off one way or the other, it doesn't make that much difference.

The best way to use the table is to compare your focus distance to the closest object in the scene to the hyperfocal distance for the selected aperture. If your estimated focus distance to the closest object is equal to or longer than the hyperfocal distance, everything will be in focus. If you are focused a little closer than that, refocus at approximately the hyperfocal distance and recompose, and everything will be OK.

Compact digicams have such short hyperfocal distances it's actually very hard not to get great depth of field. For example, at 7 mm and f/8, if you focus at 2 feet everything from 1 foot to infinity will be in focus. That's pretty much everything in most scenes. Focus on you outstretched hand and pretty much the world is your oyster. At 11 mm, a typical "normal" setting, everything from 2.5 feet to infinity is in focus at f/8 (focused to 5 feet away). Stop down to f/11 and you're good to under 2 feet. Focus on your shoes at f/11 and snap away...

The key is to make this as simple as possible. If you're focused near the hyperfocal distance at the closest object in the scene, you can be sure infinity is in focus.

Cheers.