Keeping it all simple/simpler/simplest

[faberryman]

Depth of field is mainly considered when you want multiple objects at different distances all in focus (or certain objects out of focus). If you're just concerned with one spot being in focus and don't care about the rest, then you typically don't worry about depth of field.

I realize that. It is also why I select an appropriate aperture.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

You could just get a Holga mate.

not familiar with the mate model.

 

[awty]

not familiar with the mate model.

Its special import for Oz, the zone focus has people with corks hanging from their hats and Ayers Rock instead of mountains.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Its special import for Oz, the zone focus has people with corks hanging from their hats and Ayers Rock instead of mountains.

I'm almost afraid to ask what the symbol is for close-ups on the Holga Mate...

 

[awty]

I'm almost afraid to ask what the symbol is for close-ups on the Holga Mate...

It was this, but was often confused with landscape.......no wonder they are so rare.

 

[mshchem]

I think the news photogs of the 40's and 50's with their speed graphics had "simple" down pat. Leave the camera on a box camera style setting and point the camera in the general direction of the desired shot, and enlarge the desired portion of the big negative and send the print to the editor. Good enough for 75 line letterpress plate on newsprint. Not so many luxuries on a 35mm when your negative was the size of a postage stamp.

This is a good point. Also these guys were using flash bulbs the size of a 60W light bulb. 127mm lens set at f16, zone focus. Those old flashbulbs would burn so long that 125th gave you twice the exposure as 250th. Not like today's 1/10000th s electronic flash.
The press guys especially, everything looks like it was shot after dark. Mostly because they used small aperture and huge flash. I sold off my horde of flashbulbs, darn things are dangerous in quantity. Still they were fabulous lights.

 

[KN4SMF]

I wonder if there's a way to enter keywords in this site to not show any threads containing said words. Holga and pinhole are the keywords. Rodinal would be another.